Frank Bongiorno

Frank Bongiorno
AM, , FASSA, FAHA
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Nhill, Victoria, Australia
AwardsFellow of the Royal Historical Society (2010)
ACT Book of the Year (2013, 2016, 2023)
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2017)
Member of the Order of Australia (2019)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2019)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne (BA [Hons])
Australian National University (PhD)
ThesisLabour and Politics in Victoria, 1885–1914 (1994)
Doctoral advisorKen Inglis
Academic work
InstitutionsAustralian National University
King's College London
University of New England
Griffith University
Notable studentsC. J. Coventry
Main interestsLabour, political and cultural history
Notable worksThe Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012)
The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015)

Francis Robert Bongiorno AM, FASSA, FAHA (born 1969) is an Australian historian, academic and author. He is a professor of history at the Australian National University, and was head of the university's history department from 2018 to 2020.[1][2] Bongiorno is the President of the Australian Historical Association.[3]

  1. ^ "Dr Frank Bongiorno". Australian National University. 4 July 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  2. ^ "Tony Abbott blamed over failure of Western civilisation course". The Australian. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
  3. ^ AHA, "Executive Committee", https://theaha.org.au/about-the-aha/executive-committee/