Marnie Hughes-Warrington

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Marnie Hughes-Warrington AO is an Australian academic who currently serves as professor of history at the University of South Australia, where she has also served since 2020 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise). She previously worked at the Australian National University. [1] Her areas of expertise are the philosophy of history, historiography, and world history.

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Early life and education

Hughes-Warrington was born in Victoria and grew up in Tasmania. She studied Philosophy and History at the University of Tasmania from 1988 to 1991, and graduated with a Bachelor of Education with First Class Honours with majors in history and philosophy in 1992.

She was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar in 1992, and completed her DPhil at Merton College, Oxford, where she served as President of the Middle Common Room. [2] Her thesis, completed in 1995, is entitled Historical imagination and education, and focuses on the philosophy of history and education of R. G. Collingwood.

Career

After completing her DPhil, Hughes-Warrington lectured in history at the University of Oxford, the University of Washington and Macquarie University. She became Associate Dean of Education at Macquarie in 1998, and held the position until 2009. She has also taught at Leipzig University and Harvard University.

From 2009 to 2012, she worked as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at Monash University, and became Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Australian National University in 2012. In 2018 she announced [3] her intention to go back to her twin loves of history and philosophy to work on three new books. Her current writing project focuses on the relationship between the scales of histories and ethics. She is the fifth secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships in Australia. [4]

Published works

Hughes-Warrington is the author of eight books:

Awards

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References

  1. "Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington". The Australian National University, Canberra. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  2. "Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington (1992)". 40 Years: Merton Women 1980-2020. Merton College, Oxford. 2020. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  3. "A Long-Expected Party". Making Sense of University Business. October 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  4. "Rhodes Australia Team". The Rhodes Trust. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  5. Review of Fifty Key Thinkers on History:
  6. Reviews of How Good an Historian Shall I Be?:
  7. Reviews of Palgrave Advances in World Histories:
  8. Reviews of History Goes to the Movies:
  9. Review of The History on Film Reader:
    • Childs, Cynthia (Spring 2012). "Review". Film & History. 42 (1).
  10. Review of Revisionist Histories:
    • Melrose, Jamie (February 2014). "Review". Reviews in History.
  11. Review of History as Wonder:
  12. "Queen's Birthday 2022 Honours - the full list". Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment Co. 12 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.