Obituaries

Elected to the Academy in 2002, Elspeth was internationally recognised for her work in cultural and gender studies. She was especially noted for innovative contributions to theories of identities and subjectivity, and her original and cross-disciplinary research. Her publications spanned the fields of gender, media and cultural studies, philosophy, cultural geography, anthropology and critical psychology. […]

Elected to the Academy in 2013, Jeff was an internationally recognised linguist who conducted research in several interrelated areas, including contact languages, language description and documentation, language acquisition, and the teaching of non-standard varieties in formal education. His main areas of research were the processes involved in the development of language contact varieties, and the

Keith Kennedy Campbell FAHA, born in Wellington, New Zealand on 19 December 1938, was the second of four children of Prof. Ian Drummond Campbell and Emily ‘Eslie’ Helen, nee Kennedy. Campbell spent his childhood in Karori and attended Wellington College. In 1954 he met Julianne Joan McKenzie, and they married on 30 January 1960 in

Elected to the Academy in 1986, Margaret was art historian and curator recognised internationally for her scholarship on Medieval and Renaissance art, in particular the art of the illuminated manuscript. She was Herald Chair Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne from 1979 to 1995, and also the first woman to chair the

A leading historian, Donald wrote extensively on Australia’s relations with Pacific countries as well as on Papua New Guinea. Editing and promoting the research of others across the Pacific and Asia, Donald’s personal research interests and collaborations focused on a number of key themes, including settler societies and their relations with Indigenous people, medical history

A renowned Australian historian with a reputation as a leading interpreter of Australian cultural and political history, John was elected to the Academy in 1991. He wrote widely on Australian culture and biography and was awarded the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize in 1988 for his book Australia: A Cultural History. John was a former professional

Elected to the Academy in 2015, he was an international leading scholar in the fields of Transatlantic Slavery and Early American history. Trevor held chairs at Brunel, Sussex, Warwick and Melbourne universities. He was Head of the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at The University of Melbourne prior to taking up the role of

Elected to the Academy in 1986, he published extensively on modern British history, especially the history of elites, and on Jewish history. Instrumental in advancing Jewish studies in Australia, Bill was foundation editor (1985-95) of the Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, President of the Australian Association of Jewish Studies (1989-91), and President of the Jewish

Michael Osborne was a complex person who defies easy categorisation. A gifted scholar of Greek epigraphy, a committed Sinophile, and Vice Chancellor of La Trobe University (1990-2006), where his career as an academic leader ended in conflict and serious turmoil. Michael was an inveterate traveller (especially to China) where he found that his interest in

David Tunley AM FAHA Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques was born in Sydney and grew up in the country town of Gulgong in New South Wales, moving as a boarder to Sydney for his secondary education. He went on to do a Diploma in Music at the Sydney Conservatorium, specialising in piano–the Bachelor’s Music