Honorary Professor, UNSW Canberra
Peter Stanley is a prolific author and award-winning historian who has published over forty books. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of New South Wales, Canberra. In 2011, his book Bad Characters: Sex, Crime, Mutiny, Murder and the Australian Imperial Force was jointly awarded the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History.
Born in Liverpool, UK in 1956, Peter Stanley migrated to Australia with his family in 1966, growing up in Whyalla, South Australia. In 1975, he moved to Canberra to attend the Australian National University and has been based in Canberra ever since.
Peter spent 33 years as a public historian. He joined the Australian War Memorial in 1980, heading its Historical Research Section from 1987 and serving as its Principal Historian from 1998 to 2007. From 2007 to 2013, he was the inaugural head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia.
In 2013, Peter was appointed Research Professor in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society at the University of New South Wales, Canberra (ADFA). Following his retirement from full-time academic service, he continues his active contribution to Australian history as an Honorary Professor at UNSW Canberra and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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