Mark McKenna

Biography

Mark McKenna FAHA is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sydney and Honorary Professor at the National Centre of Biography at the ANU. His research has ranged across the history of Australian republicanism and monarchy, Australian biography, histories of place and Indigenous history. He is the author of several prize-winning books, including Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: An Australian History of Place (2002), winner of the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction and Book of the Year in the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards; An Eye for Eternity, The Life of Manning Clark (2011), winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prize for Non Fiction and five other national awards; From the Edge: Australia’s Lost Histories (2016), winner of the Australian History Prize in the 2017 NSW History Awards; and Return to Uluru (2021), winner of the 2022 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award and shortlisted for the 2022 Prime Minister’s prize for Australian History.

 He has held several distinguished positions overseas at Australian Studies Centres at King’s College London (2000), the University of Copenhagen (2006) and University College, Dublin (2011). In Australia, he was an Australian Research Council QEII Fellow in History at the Australian National University (2000-2005) and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2012-2015).