- Stuart Macintyre
Stuart Forbes Macintyre (born
21 April 1947 ),Australia n historian, professor and academic, is a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at theUniversity of Melbourne .Macintyre was born in
Melbourne , Victoria in 1947, the son of Forbes Macintyre and Alison Stevens. He was educated at Scotch College, and later studied at the University of Melbourne, specialising inhistory , graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. He also holds a Master of Arts degree fromMonash University (1971) and a PhD from theUniversity of Cambridge (1975), for which he was awarded the Blackwood Prize. He married Martha (Bruton) Macintyre [http://www.chs.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/macintyre.html] , a social anthropologist, in 1976.While a student in the 1960s Macintyre joined the
Communist Party of Australia . His membership lapsed while he was studying in the United Kingdom, and on returning to Australia he joined theAustralian Labor Party . He now considers himself to be a democratic socialist. As an historian he identifies with the tradition of labour historians, such asHenry Pelling , who was his doctoral supervisor in Britain.Macintyre has had a long and distinguished academic career at a range of institutions in Australia and internationally. From 1977 to 1978, Macintyre was a research fellow at St John's College at the University of Cambridge. He returned to Australia in 1979 as a lecturer at
Murdoch University in Perth,Western Australia , and the following year returned to Melbourne where he lectured at the University of Melbourne until 1981. From 1982 to 1983 he was a research fellow at theAustralian National University inCanberra , and in 1984 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. From 1988, Macintyre was a reader in history at the University of Melbourne, before being promoted to professor in 1991, when he was given theErnest Scott chair in history. Macintyre was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts in 1999. In 2002 he was made a Laureate Professor of the University of Melbourne. Macintyre has also been a visiting scholar or fellow atGriffith University (1986), theUniversity of Canterbury ,New Zealand (1988), theUniversity of Western Australia (1988), the Australian National University (1991) and theUniversity of Otago , New Zealand (1992).From 1987 to 1996, Macintyre was a member of the Council of the
National Library of Australia (NLA) and from 1989 to 1998, a member of the Council of theState Library of Victoria (SLV). He also served as chairperson of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of theAustralian Research Council (ARC) in 2003. Recently, Macintyre has been outspoken about the actions of former federal Education MinisterBrendan Nelson , who personally vetoed several ARC grants which had already been approved by the ARC'speer review process.ref|nelsonMacintyre has published a number of books, including a history of
Marxism in theUnited Kingdom in the early 20th century,ref|prol_sci based on hisdoctoral thesis , a history of the labour movement in Australia,ref|labour and a history of theCommunist Party of Australia .ref|cpa Perhaps his most widely known work is "The History Wars" (with Anna Clark),ref|history_wars a study of thehistory wars , a public debate about the recent interpretation of various aspects of thehistory of Australia . The book was launched by formerPrime Minister of Australia Paul Keating , who took the opportunity to criticise conservative views of Australian history, and those who hold them (such as the then current Prime MinisterJohn Howard ), saying that they suffered from "a failure of imagination", and said that "The History Wars" "rolls out the canvas of this debate."ref|keating Macintyre's critics, such as Greg Melluish (History Lecturer at theUniversity of Wollongong ), responded to the book by declaring that Macintyre was a partisan history warrior himself, and that "its primary arguments are derived from the pro-Communist polemics of theCold War ."ref|melluishKeith Windschuttle said that Macintyre attempted to "caricature the history debate" but failed to explain what he ment.ref|windschuttle In a foreword to the book, formerChief Justice of Australia Sir Anthony Mason said that the book was "a fascinating study of the recent endeavours to rewrite or reinterpret the history of European settlement in Australia."ref|masonMacintyre has received many awards, including the
Premier of Victoria 's Literary Award for Australian Studies in 1986, for his work in authoring the fourth volume of the "Oxford History of Australia",ref|oxford_hist and theRedmond Barry Award from theAustralian Library and Information Association in 1997, in recognition of his work with the NLA and SLV. His book "The Reds" won "The Age " Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award in 1998. "The History Wars" won the 2004Premier of New South Wales ' Australian History Prize.ref|premiers_prizeMacintyre finished a second term as the Dean of Arts in mid-2006. For the 2007-8 academic year he holds the
Harvard Chair of Australian Studies, retaining his academic appointment at Melbourne. He is President of theAcademy of the Social Sciences in Australia . He is also a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.References
# cite news | first=Stuart | last=Macintyre | title=Research floored by full Nelson | date=
November 16 ,2005 | publisher=The Age | url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/research-floored-by-full-nelson/2005/11/15/1132016792072.html
# cite book | first=Stuart | last=Macintyre | year=1980 | title=A proletarian science: Marxism in Britain, 1917-1933 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | location=Cambridge | id=ISBN 0-521-22621-X
# cite book | first=Stuart | last=Macintyre | year=1989 | title=The Labour Experiment | publisher=McPhee Gribble | location=Melbourne | id=ISBN 0-86914-057-4
# cite book | first=Stuart | last=Macintyre | year=1999 | title=The Reds: the Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality | publisher=Allen & Unwin | location=St Leonards,New South Wales | id=ISBN 1-86508-180-9
# cite book | author=Macintyre, Stuart & Clark, Anna | title=The History Wars | publisher=Melbourne University Publishing | location=Carlton | year=2003 | id=ISBN 0-522-85091-X
# cite news | first=Paul | last=Keating | title=Keating's "History Wars" | date=September 5 ,2003 | publisher=The Sydney Morning Herald | url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/05/1062549021882.html
# cite web | title=Book Reviews | format=http | work=Policy -Centre for Independent Studies | url=http://www.cis.org.au/Policy/summer03-04/polsumm0304-7.htm | accessdate=6 February | accessyear=2006
# cite news | first=Tony | last=Jones | title=Authors in history debate | date=September 3 ,2003 | publisher=Lateline | url=http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2003/s938399.htm
# cite book | author=Macintyre, Stuart & Clark, Anna | title=The History Wars | publisher=Melbourne University Publishing | location=Carlton | year=2003 | id=ISBN 0-522-85091-X
# cite book | first=Stuart | last=Macintyre | year=1986 | title=The Oxford History of Australia, Volume 4, 1901-1942: The Succeeding Age | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Melbourne | id=ISBN 0-19-553518-9
# cite web | title=History Awards | format=http | work=NSW Ministry for the Arts | url=http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/awards/HistoryAwards/2004Hist/2004awards.htm | accessdate=6 February | accessyear=2006*
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