Duncan Waterson

Duncan Waterson is Emeritus Professor of History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He was born at Matamata, New Zealand, in 1935 and was educated at Matamata College and Auckland University College where he graduated with first-class Honours in history.
Between 1961 and 1963 he was a Research Scholar in History at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra. Completing his PhD in 1964 he lectured at Monash University, 1964-77, before becoming Professor of Modern History at Macquarie University.
In 1970 Professor Waterson was a Corporation Fellow at Harvard University and in 1988 Visiting Professor of History at Beijing Foreign Studies University. His teaching has been in the fields of Australian, New Zealand, migrant, Scots and political history, and also concentrating on the supervision of Honours and post-graduate students. He retired in 2001 but continues to write, supervise and lecture.
Waterson’s major works include a History of the Darling Downs (Queensland), a short biography of Sir Thomas McIlwraith, several pictorial histories of Queensland and Sydney as well as three Biographical Registers of the Queensland Parliament, thirty entries in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, several for the New Zealand Dictionary of Biography and the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, as well as several other articles in diverse topics.
Since 1989 Professor Waterson has been a regular visitor to Turkey where his father fought with the 1NZEF in 1915. He is overseer of a large ARC-funded Research Project translating Turkish Archival sources into English for publication.
In 2001 his retirement was marked by a Festschrift, From the Frontier in the Journal of Australian Studies.

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