Marnie Hughes-Warrington is an Australian academic who currently serves as professor of history at the

University of South Australia The University of South Australia (UniSA) is a public research university in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a founding member of the Australian Technology Network of universities, and is the largest university in South Australi ...

, where she has also served since 2020 as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise). She previously worked at the

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. Her areas of expertise are the philosophy of history, historiography, and world history.

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 The University of Tasmania (UTAS) is a public research university, primarily located in Tasmania, Australia. Founded in 1890, it is Australia's fourth oldest university. Christ College, one of the university's residential colleges, first pro ...

from 1988 to 1991, and graduated with a

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with First Class Honours with majors in history and philosophy in 1992. She was chosen as a

Rhodes Scholar The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

in 1992, and completed her

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, where she served as President of the Middle Common Room. 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

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, the

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and

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...

. She became Associate Dean of Education at Macquarie in 1998, and held the position until 2009. She has also taught at

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and

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. From 2009 to 2012, she worked as Pro-Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

, and became Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the Australian National University in 2012. In 2018 she announced 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.

Published works

Hughes-Warrington is the author of eight books: *
Fifty Key Thinkers on History
' Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish and Bahasa translations (London: Routledge, 2000, 2009, 2014) *
How Good an Historian Shall I Be?: R. G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education
' (Thorverton: Imprint Academic, 2003) *
Palgrave Advances in World Histories
' (Basingstoke: Palgrave 2005) *
History Goes to the Movies: Studying History on Film
' (London: Routledge, 2007) *
The History on Film Reader
' (Abingdon: Routledge, 2009) *
Revisionist Histories
' (Abingdon: Routledge, 2013) *
History as Wonder: Beginning with Historiography
' (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018)Review of ''History as Wonder'': * *Big and Little Histories: Sizing up Ethics in Historiography. With Anne Martin. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021)

Awards

* 2008: Australian Prime Minister's Award for University Teacher of the Year * 2008: Teaching Excellence Award in Humanities and the Arts, Australian Learning and Teaching Council * 2013: University of Tasmania Foundation Graduate of the Year Award * 2022: Appointed

Officer of the Order of Australia The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Gove ...

in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to tertiary education and governance as an administrator, leader and mentor".

References

External links

Interview about History as WonderResearcher profileMissUniTwoCents blog 2014–18
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