Professor Peter Harrison (Director)

Peter Harrison BSc, BA (Hons), PhD (Qld), MA (Yale), MA, DLitt (Oxford), FAHA.  Peter Harrison was educated at the University of Queensland and Yale University. In 2011 he moved back to Queensland from...

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Dr Elizabeth Stephens (Deputy Director)

BA (Hons) (Curtin), PhD (Macquarie).  Elizabeth Stephens is an ARC Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Centre.  Her research focuses on philosophies and histor...

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Professor Simon During

BA (Victoria University, Wellington), MA (Auckland), PhD (Cambridge). Simon During is a New Zealander who studied for his PhD in Victorian literature at Cambridge. For many years he taught at the University of Melbourne, where, as Robert W...

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Professor Philip Almond

BD (Hons) (London), MA (Lancaster), PhD (Adelaide), FAHA.  Before joining the University of Queensland in 1982, he studied for his PhD in the philosophy of religion at the University of...

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Emeritus Professor Ian Hunter

BA (La Trobe), DipEd (La Trobe), PhD (Griffith), FAHA.  Ian Hunter was an Australian Professorial Fellow whose research has two main foci. Since the mid 1990s he has been working on the history of early modern political, religiou...

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Emeritus Professor Peter Cryle

BA (Queensland), MA (Queensland), DU (Nice) Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, FAHA.  Peter Cryle completed his MA at the Universit...

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Dr Gary Ianziti

BA (San Francisco), MA, PhD (UNC-Chapel Hill). Gary Ianziti was educated in the United States and Italy. After completing his PhD at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill), he held a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Scuola N...

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Ms Vonne Carmichael

Centre Manager     Email: v.carmichael@uq.edu.au Phone: +61 7 334 69492

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Dr Marina Bollinger (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

BA(Hons) (ANU), PhD (Sydney).  Marina Bollinger is a historian with a strong interest in philosophy. Her research interests include early modern philosophical, political, and religious thought; the history of historiography, femi...

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Dr Knox Peden (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

BA (Penn), MA (LSE), PhD (Berkeley). Knox Peden earned his PhD in European intellectual history from UC Berkeley in 2009, and also holds an MA in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BA in Histor...

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Dr Michael Ostling (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

 BA (Reed), MA (Toronto), PhD (Toronto).  Michael Ostling earned his PhD in Religious Studies from the Centre for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto, in 2008. His doctoral dissertation, f...

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Dr Ian Hesketh (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

BA (Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC), MA, PhD (York University, Toronto). Ian Hesketh is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Peter Harrison on the “Science, Progress and History” ...

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Dr Tom Aechtner (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

BSc (Alberta), MA (Calgary), DPhil (Oxford). Tom Aechtner is a Canadian who recently finished his DPhil at the University of Oxford, where he investigated Darwin-sceptic mass media in the contemporary Evolution Wars.  He is currently ...

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Dr Leigh Penman (Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

BA (Hons), LLB, PhD (Melbourne). Leigh Penman is a UQ Postdoctoral Fellowship holder (2013-2016) and an Associate Member of the History Faculty, University of Oxford. He graduated with degrees in arts and law from the University of Melbour...

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