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Andrew May
FASSA FRAS
AwardsH.J. Dyos Prize (1995)[1]
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Melbourne (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne

Andrew May FASSA FRAS is an Australian social historian. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the University of Melbourne.[2]

Education and career

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May has a D.Phil from the University of Melbourne.[2]

He is producer of My Marvellous Melbourne, a podcast.[3][4] He has curated a number of exhibitions at the City Gallery, Melbourne, including Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys (2005);[5] Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History (2006, with Kirsty Fletcher and Nicki Adams);[6] Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs (2011);[7] and City Songs (2017, with Zoe Ali and Christos Tsiolkas).[8]

He is lead investigator on a project titled Cancer Culture, funded by the Australian Research Council in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria.[9]

He has been a historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria since 2015, and deputy chair since 2020.[10]

Honours and recognition

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He was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013,[11] and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018.[12]

Books

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As author:

  • Melbourne Street Life (1998), Melbourne Scholarly Publishing ISBN 1875606467
  • Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories (2001), Arcadia ISBN 9781740971324
  • Federation Square (with Norman Day) (2003), Hardie Grant Books ISBN 1740663136
  • Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India (2012), Manchester University Press ISBN 0719080355[13]

As editor:

  • The Living Heart: Images and Prospects for Central Melbourne (1993), Monash Publications in History ISBN 0732605105
  • Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History (with A. Barry, J. Cruikshank, P. Grimshaw) (2008), eScholarship Research Centre and The School of Historical Studies ISBN 9780734039682
  • The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (with S. Swain), 2005, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521842344[14]
  • Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange (with P. Grimshaw), (2010), Sussex Academic Press ISBN 9781845193089[15]

References

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  1. ^ "List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–2019". Urban History. 47 (4). Cambridge University Press: 763–764. 2020. doi:10.1017/S0963926820000644. S2CID 233358639. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  2. ^ a b Andrew May. University of Melbourne. Accessed June 2022.
  3. ^ "My Marvellous Melbourne podcast". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  4. ^ "My Marvellous Melbourne". Apple. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  6. ^ "Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  7. ^ "Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  8. ^ "City Songs". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Cancer Culture". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Member Profiles". Heritage Council of Victoria. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland". Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  12. ^ "Academy Fellow Profile: Prof Andrew J. May". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  13. ^ Reviews of Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism:
  14. ^ Reviews of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne:
  15. ^ Reviews of Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange:
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