Iain McCalman | |
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| Born | 6 November 1947 Nyasaland, Africa |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1992) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1992) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1996) Federation Fellowship (2003) Officer of the Order of Australia (2007) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Australian National University (BA, MA) Monash University (PhD) |
| Thesis | A Radical Underworld in London: Thomas Evans, Robert Wedderburn, George Cannon and Their Circle, 1800–35 (1984) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Sydney Australian National University |
| Doctoral students | Peter Stanley |
| Main interests | British and European social history |
| Website | http://www.iainmccalman.com/ |
Iain Duncan McCalman AO FRHS FASSA FAHA (born 6 November 1947) is an Australian historian, social scientist, academic and former Research Professor at the University of Sydney, as well as a prominent multidisciplinary environmental researcher. McCalman was born and raised in Nyasaland (current-day Malawi) before moving to Australia to complete his university degrees in History.[1] He is a specialist in eighteenth-century and early-nineteenth British and European cultural history.[1]
McCalman’s research interests include environmentalism and environmental history, history of low and popular culture, history of science and historiography, particularly in relation to emotion in history and the role of historical re-enactments. He was also President of the Academy of the Humanities from 2001 to 2004, co-founder and co-director of the Sydney Environmental Institute from 2013 to 2018. McCalman was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 2007.