Mark McKenna has been Associate Professor in the Department of History at The University of Sydney, where his research focused on the history of Australian republicanism and monarchy, Australian historiography and biography, place and Aboriginal history. His book An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark won numerous prizes and awards, including the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prize for Non Fiction, the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction (2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Award), the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction (2011 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards), the 2011 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for Non-Fiction, and the 2012 Adelaide Festival Award for Non-Fiction. He has held several distinguished positions overseas at the Australian Studies Centre in London, the Australian Studies Centre in Copenhagen, and University College, Dublin. In Australia, he was an ARC QEII Fellow in History at The Australian National University from 2000–05, before taking up the position of Senior Research Fellow in History at The University of Sydney in 2006. He has also been an ARC Future Fellow.
His publications include An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark (2011); This Country: A Reconciled Republic? (2004); Australian Republicanism: A Reader (2003, with Wayne Hudson); Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: An Australian History of Place (2002); and The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia, 1788–1996 (1996).
In 2017, his From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories was shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award, the H.T. Priestley Medal, and the CHASS Australia Book Prize, and won the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize.
Source: The Australian Academy of the Humanities website