Associate Professor Mark McKenna
Senior Research Fellow
Room 715 Brennan MacCallum, A18
+61 2 9114 1152
After completing my doctorate in 1996, I took up a research fellowship in political science at the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU in Canberra. From 2000 till 2005 I was an ARC QEII Fellow in History at the ANU. I took up my current position as Senior Research Fellow in History at Sydney University in August 2006. Over the last decade I’ve published mainly in two areas - the history of Australian republicanism and monarchy and Aboriginal history.
Research areas
Australian history, particularly political and cultural history and Aboriginal history.
Current projects
Selected publications
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This Country: a Reconciled Republic? (University of New South Wales Press, 2004)
Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: an Australian History of Place (University of New South Wales Press, 2002).
(with Wayne Hudson) Australian Republicanism: a Reader (Melbourne University Press, 2003)
The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia, 1788-1996 (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
| Articles & Book Chapters |
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"The Poetics of Place Land Constitution and Republic," Dialogue (journal of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia), Vol.23 1/2 2004, pp.27-33.
"A History for Our Time? ‘The Idea of the People in Australian Democracy’," Blackwells’ History Compass, 2003.
"'I wonder whether I belong': Manning Clark and the Politics of Australian History," Australian Historical Studies October 2003, pp. 364-383
"An Article of Faith for a Sceptical Democracy: The Legacy of Manning Clark," Eureka St Vol.8 No.2, March 1998, pp.29-33 (this article shared first prize in the H.V. Evatt Foundation Essay Prize 1997)
"The Australian Republic: Still Captive after all these Years," in Malcolm Mackerras and John Warhurst (eds) Constitutional Politics: The Republic Referendum and the Future (University of Queensland Press, 2002)
"Building a Closet of Prayer in the New World: the Story of the Australian Ballot," London Papers in Australian Studies, No.6 Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, London, 2002 ISBN 1 85507 122 3Menzies
Awards
- Shared first prize in the H.V. Evatt Foundation Manning Clark Essay Prize, (Topic: Australian Republicanism) 1997.
- Co-winner of W.K. Hancock Prize for Australian History [for The Captive Republic] awarded by Australian Historical Studies Association July 1998
- Author of a new Constitutional Preamble chosen by the Constitutional Centenary Foundation to be circulated to Federal Parliament, February 1999
- QEII Fellowship, ARC 1999.
- Winner of Australian Cultural Studies prize 2002, (awarded by the Centre for Australian Culture, UNSW and the Australian National Capital Authority) for Looking for Blackfellas’ Point.
- Winner of NSW Premier’s Award (Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction) for Looking for Blackfellas’ Point, May 2003.
- Winner of NSW Premier’s Award (Book of the Year) for Looking for Blackfellas’ Point, May 2003.
- Looking for Blackfellas’ Point was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s History Prize 2003 and the Australian Literary Studies Association’s Colin Roderick Prize for Best Australian Book 2003 (Fiction or Non-Fiction)
- This Country: a Reconciled Republic? shortlisted for the Gleebooks Prize for cultural criticism in the 2005 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards