Andrew May (historian)

Andrew May FASSA FRAS is an Australian social historian. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the University of Melbourne.[2]

Andrew May

FASSA FRAS
AwardsH.J. Dyos Prize (1995)[1]
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Melbourne (PhD)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Melbourne

Education and career

May has a D.Phil from the University of Melbourne.[2]

He is producer of My Marvellous Melbourne, a podcast.[3][4] He has curated a number of exhibitions at the City Gallery, Melbourne, including Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys (2005);[5] Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History (2006, with Kirsty Fletcher and Nicki Adams);[6] Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs (2011);[7] and City Songs (2017, with Zoe Ali and Christos Tsiolkas).[8]

He is lead investigator on a project titled Cancer Culture, funded by the Australian Research Council in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria.[9]

He has been a historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria since 2015, and deputy chair since 2020.[10]

Honours and recognition

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013,[11] and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018.[12]

Books

As author:

  • Melbourne Street Life (1998), Melbourne Scholarly Publishing ISBN 1875606467
  • Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories (2001), Arcadia ISBN 9781740971324
  • Federation Square (with Norman Day) (2003), Hardie Grant Books ISBN 1740663136
  • Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India (2012), Manchester University Press ISBN 0719080355[13]

As editor:

  • The Living Heart: Images and Prospects for Central Melbourne (1993), Monash Publications in History ISBN 0732605105
  • Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History (with A. Barry, J. Cruikshank, P. Grimshaw) (2008), eScholarship Research Centre and The School of Historical Studies ISBN 9780734039682
  • The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (with S. Swain), 2005, Cambridge University Press ISBN 0521842344[14]
  • Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange (with P. Grimshaw), (2010), Sussex Academic Press ISBN 9781845193089[15]

References
  1. "List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–2019". Urban History. Cambridge University Press. 47 (4): 763–764. 2020. doi:10.1017/S0963926820000644. S2CID 233358639. Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  2. Andrew May. University of Melbourne. Accessed June 2022.
  3. "My Marvellous Melbourne podcast". The University of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  4. "My Marvellous Melbourne". Apple. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  5. "Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  6. "Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  7. "Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  8. "City Songs". City of Melbourne. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  9. "Cancer Culture". Australian Research Council. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  10. "Member Profiles". Heritage Council of Victoria. 11 August 2014. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  11. "Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland". Retrieved 18 May 2022.
  12. "Academy Fellow Profile: Prof Andrew J. May". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
  13. Reviews of Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism:
  14. Reviews of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne:
  15. Reviews of Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange:
    • Golding, David (December 2012). Anglican and Episcopal History. 81 (4): 459–460. JSTOR 42612496. ProQuest 1268149638.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gunson, Niel (December 2011). The Journal of Pacific History. 46 (3): 403–405. doi:10.1080/00223344.2011.632949. JSTOR 41343862. S2CID 161396015.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Semple, Rhonda A. (February 2011). Social History. 36 (1): 105–106. JSTOR 41060839.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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