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Professor Iain Duncan McCalman, AO, FRHistS, FASSA, FAHA, FRSN was born in Malawi, Africa, schooled in Zimbabwe, and earned his BA, MA and PhD in Melbourne and Canberra, Australia. He recently retired from a position as Research Professor of History and Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney. He has held many Visiting Research Fellowships in Britain and the United States, including at All Souls and Oriel Colleges, Oxford, Princeton,New Jersey, and as a Mellon Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.

Iain is a Fellow and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Fellow of three other Learned Academies in Australia and Britain, and is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Sydney and the Australian National University.