Andrew May (historian)
Andrew May is an Australian social historian. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the University of Melbourne.
Education and career
May has a D.Phil from the University of Melbourne.He is producer of My Marvellous Melbourne, a podcast. He has curated a number of exhibitions at the City Gallery, Melbourne, including Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys ; Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History ; Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs ; and City Songs.
He is lead investigator on a project titled Cancer Culture, funded by the Australian Research Council in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria.
He has been a historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria since 2015, and deputy chair since 2020.
Honours and recognition
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013, and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018.Books
As author:Melbourne Street Life, Melbourne Scholarly Publishing Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories, Arcadia Federation Square, Hardie Grant Books Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India, Manchester University PressAs editor:The Living Heart: Images and Prospects for Central Melbourne, Monash Publications in History Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History, eScholarship Research Centre and The School of Historical Studies The Encyclopedia of Melbourne, 2005, Cambridge University Press Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange,, Sussex Academic Press