Andrew May (historian) explained

Honorific Suffix:	FRAS
Education:	University of Melbourne (PhD)
Workplaces:	University of Melbourne
Awards:	H.J. Dyos Prize (1995)^[1]

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.^{[2] [3]} He has curated a number of exhibitions at the City Gallery, Melbourne, including Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys (2005);^[4] Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History (2006, with Kirsty Fletcher and Nicki Adams);^[5] Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs (2011);^[6] and City Songs (2017, with Zoe Ali and Christos Tsiolkas).^[7]

He is lead investigator on a project titled Cancer Culture, funded by the Australian Research Council in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria.^[8]

He has been a historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria since 2015, and deputy chair since 2020.^[9]

Honours and recognition

He was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013,^[10] and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018.^[11]

Books

As author:

• Melbourne Street Life (1998), Melbourne Scholarly Publishing
• Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories (2001), Arcadia
• Federation Square (with Norman Day) (2003), Hardie Grant Books
• Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India (2012), Manchester University Press ^[12]

As editor:

• The Living Heart: Images and Prospects for Central Melbourne (1993), Monash Publications in History
• Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History (with A. Barry, J. Cruikshank, P. Grimshaw) (2008), eScholarship Research Centre and The School of Historical Studies
• The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (with S. Swain), 2005, Cambridge University Press ^[13]
• Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange (with P. Grimshaw), (2010), Sussex Academic Press ^[14]

Notes and References

1. List of Dyos Prize winners 1992–2019 . Urban History . 2020 . 47 . 4 . 763–764 . Cambridge University Press . 10.1017/S0963926820000644 . 233358639 . 18 May 2022.
2. Web site: My Marvellous Melbourne podcast . The University of Melbourne . 20 May 2022.
3. Web site: My Marvellous Melbourne . Apple . 20 May 2022.
4. Web site: Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys . City of Melbourne . 20 May 2022.
5. Web site: Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History . City of Melbourne . 20 May 2022.
6. Web site: Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs . City of Melbourne . 20 May 2022.
7. Web site: City Songs . City of Melbourne . 20 May 2022.
8. Web site: Cancer Culture . Australian Research Council . 20 May 2022.
9. Web site: Member Profiles . 11 August 2014 . Heritage Council of Victoria . 20 May 2022.
10. Web site: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland . 18 May 2022.
11. Web site: Academy Fellow Profile: Prof Andrew J. May . Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia . 20 May 2022.
12. Reviews of Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism:
    • Cleall . Esme . August 2014 . 10.1080/03086534.2014.966571 . 4 . The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History . 768–770 . none . 42. 162117926 .
    • Colvard . Eric . December 2018 . 10.1017/s0165115318000670 . 3 . Itinerario . 553–555 . none . 42. 166142437 .
    • Jones . Arun W. . April 2015 . 10.1080/00856401.2015.1020477 . 2 . South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies . 352–354 . none . 38. 46748699 .
    • Manktelow . Emily . 10.1353/cch.2013.0044 . 3 . Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History . none . 14 . 2013. 160230269 .
    • Maughan . Steven S. . Summer 2015 . 10.2979/victorianstudies.57.4.27 . 4 . Victorian Studies . 10.2979/victorianstudies.57.4.27 . 740–742 . none . 57.
    • Peers . Douglas M. . July 2017 . 10.1017/jbr.2017.91 . 3 . Journal of British Studies . 698–699 . none . 56. 165099808 .
    • Sharma . Jayeeta . April 2014 . 10.1177/0019464614527534 . 2 . The Indian Economic & Social History Review . 274–276 . none . 51. 147676747 .
    • Simpson . Thomas . December 2017 . 10.1017/s1356186317000682 . 4 . Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society . 766–767 . none . 28. 165737924 .
13. Reviews of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne:
    • Gregory . Jenny . October 2006 . 10.1080/10314610608601224 . 128 . Australian Historical Studies . 131–132 . none . 37. 218623415 .
    • Murray . Lisa . January 2006 . 10.2104/ha060065 . 2 . History Australia . 65.1–65.3 . none . 3. 146496085 .
    • Sleight . Simon Paul . Eras . Review . https://web.archive.org/web/20150919051350/http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/eras/files/2014/02/sleight1review.pdf . 2015-09-19 . dead . 8 . 2006.
    • Walsham . Alexandra . 10.1111/j.1468-229X.2007.401_12.x . 3 . History . 24428259 . none . 92 . 307. 378 .
14. Reviews of Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange:
    • Golding . David . December 2012 . . 4 . Anglican and Episcopal History . 42612496 . 459–460 . none . 81.
    • Gunson . Niel . December 2011 . 10.1080/00223344.2011.632949 . 3 . The Journal of Pacific History . 41343862 . 403–405 . none . 46. 161396015 .
    • Semple . Rhonda A. . February 2011 . 1 . Social History . 41060839 . 105–106 . none . 36.