Dr. Nicholas Brown

Biography

Nicholas Brown is a professor at the School of History, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. He has previously held the Keith Cameron Professorship of Australian History at University College Dublin. Throughout his career, Nicholas has worked in various roles, including at the Australian Department of Defence and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and has been a Research Fellow at the Urban Environment Program, Research School of Social Sciences at ANU. He served as the Visiting Cabinet Historian at the National Archives of Australia and was a Senior Research Fellow at the National Museum of Australia. He has been actively involved with the ACT Heritage Council and has chaired advisory committees for cultural institutions in Canberra. His research interests focus on a wide range of Australian history, especially 20th-century social and environmental history, biography, and governance public policy. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, where he continues to contribute to the field while supervising research students on various historical topics.

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