Bulletin

Issue: January/February 2006

People

Appointments to Academy of Social Sciences

Professor John King of the School of Business and Dr Diane Kirkby, a Reader in the History, have been appointed Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Professor King was cited as a highly regarded researcher in labour economics, Marxian economics and the history of economic theory. He is editor of the History of Economics Review.

Dr Kirkby was noted for her outstanding record of innovative scholarship and publication in fields that cross cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Her prize-winning biography, Alice Henry, provided a new synthesis of Australian and American history. She was instrumental in the formation of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society and is its past president.