Frank Bongiorno
Frank Bongiorno | |
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In a discussion on the Australian economy in 2019 | |
| Born | 1969 (age 55–56) Nhill, Victoria, Australia |
| Awards | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2010) ACT Book of the Year (2013, 2016, 2023) Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (2017) Member of the Order of Australia (2019) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2019) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Melbourne (BA [Hons]) Australian National University (PhD) |
| Thesis | Labour and Politics in Victoria, 1885–1914 (1994) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ken Inglis |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Australian National University King's College London University of New England Griffith University |
| Notable students | C. J. Coventry |
| Main interests | Labour, political and cultural history |
| Notable works | The Sex Lives of Australians: A History (2012) The Eighties: The Decade That Transformed Australia (2015) |
Francis Robert Bongiorno AM, FASSA, FAHA (born 1969) is an Australian historian, academic and author. He is a professor of history at the Australian National University, and was head of the university's history department from 2018 to 2020. Bongiorno is the President of the Australian Historical Association.