Andrew May is an Australian
social historian
Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...
. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the
University of Melbourne.
Education and career
May has a
D.Phil
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from the
University of Melbourne.
He is producer of ''My Marvellous Melbourne'', a
podcast. He has curated a number of exhibitions at the
City Gallery, Melbourne, including ''Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys'' (2005); ''Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History'' (2006, with Kirsty Fletcher and Nicki Adams); ''Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs'' (2011); and ''City Songs'' (2017, with Zoe Ali and
Christos Tsiolkas).
He is lead investigator on a project titled ''Cancer Culture'', funded by the
Australian Research Council
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in partnership with
Cancer Council Victoria.
He has been a historian member of the
Heritage Council of Victoria since 2015, and deputy chair since 2020.
Honours and recognition
He was elected a
fellow of the
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013, and of the
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018.
Books
As author:
* ''Melbourne Street Life'' (1998), Melbourne Scholarly Publishing
* ''Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories'' (2001), Arcadia
* ''Federation Square'' (with
Norman Day) (2003), Hardie Grant Books
* ''Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India'' (2012), Manchester University Press
As editor:
* ''The Living Heart: Images and Prospects for Central Melbourne'' (1993), Monash Publications in History
* ''Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History'' (with A. Barry, J. Cruikshank,
P. Grimshaw) (2008), eScholarship Research Centre and The School of Historical Studies
* ''The Encyclopedia of Melbourne'' (with S. Swain), 2005, Cambridge University Press
* ''Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange'' (with
P. Grimshaw), (2010), Sussex Academic Press
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Historians of Australia
Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
University of Melbourne alumni
References
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1963 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Melbourne