Dr. Mark Hearn

Biography

Mark Hearn is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, focusing on historical theory and historiography, especially the fin de siècle period (circa 1890-1914). His research addresses the history of ideas and governance in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Australia. He received the C.H. Currey Memorial Fellowship from the State Library of New South Wales in 2006 and was an Australian Prime Minister's Centre fellow at the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra from 2014 to 2015. In 2018, he was a visiting scholar at the Centre for Philosophical Studies in History at the University of Oulu, Finland, where he researched historical periodization related to the fin de siècle. His publication, titled 'Fin de Siècle Imagination Australia', was released by Bloomsbury in 2022. Hearn has contributed significantly to the field through various projects and publications, including ongoing research into the governance of free people in Australia during the early twentieth century. He has also been involved in editorial activities for the journal Labour History since 2002.

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