Professor of North American History, La Trobe University, La Trobe University
I have published eight books on North American history, including works on civil rights, labor history, and deindustrialisation. My first degree was from the University of St. Andrews (1991) in Scotland. I moved to Australia in 2004 and became a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2009.
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