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Mark McKenna FAHA (born 1959) is a professor of history at the University of Sydney, noted for his work on Aboriginal history, a biography of Manning Clark and the history of republicanism in Australia. [1]
McKenna was born in 1959 and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Toongabbie. [2] After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, he lived in Europe for a period and then taught in high schools in Sydney before completing his PhD at the University of New South Wales in 1996. [2]
McKenna was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2013. [3]
His book Return to Uluru about the shooting death of Yokununna by William (Bill) McKinnon was shortlisted for the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian history. [4]
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