Peter Stanley

For the president of Pomona College, see Peter W. Stanley.

Peter Stanley
Born (1956-10-28) 28 October 1956 (age 68)
Liverpool, England
AwardsPrime Minister's Prize for Australian History (2011)
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2014)[1]
Academic background
Alma materAustralian National University
ThesisWhite Mutiny: The Bengal Europeans, 1825–75, A Study in Military Social History (1993)
Doctoral advisorIain McCalman
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of New South Wales (2013–)
National Museum of Australia (2007–13)
Australian War Memorial (1980–07)
Main interestsAustralian military history
British medical history
Websitehttp://peterstanley.net/

Peter Alan Stanley FAHA (born 28 October 1956) is an Australian historian and research professor at the University of New South Wales in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society. He was Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia from 2007–13. Between 1980 and 2007 he was an historian and sometime exhibition curator at the Australian War Memorial, including as head of the Historical Research Section and Principal Historian from 1987. He has written eight books about Australia and the Great War since 2005, and was a joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011.

  1. ^ "Stanley, Peter". The Academy Fellows. Australian Academy of the Humanities. Archived from the original on 28 February 2017. Retrieved 16 March 2015.