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Professor
Graeme Davison
Head of School
School of Historical Studies
Monash University
Australia
Biography
Graeme has taught at the University of Melbourne, Harvard University,
where he was Visiting professor of Australian Studies, and at Monash
University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and
the Academy of the Humanities. His main interest is in the history
of cities in Australia, Britain and the United States. He is the
author of The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne and The Unforgiving
Minute: How Australia Learned to Tell the Time and an editor of
Australians 1888 and the Oxford Companion to Australian History.
He has been active as an advisor to heritage bodies, museums and
in other fields of public history where his publications include
A Heritage Handbook and The Use and Abuse of Australian History.
His current projects include a book on the impact of the motor car
on postwar Australian cities and contributions to the Encyclopedia
of Melbourne.
Selected Publications
Davison, Graeme (ed.). 1995. Cities down under: urban history in
Australia and New Zealand Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage, 154 p.
Davison, Graeme, Tony Dingle and Seamus O'Hanlon.(eds.) 1995. The
cream brick frontier : histories of Australian suburbia. Monash
Publications in History, Dept. of History, Monash University, Clayton,
Vic. 167 p.
Davison, Graeme 1978. The rise and fall of marvellous Melbourne.
Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic. 304 p.
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