15 June 2006
Monash University has appointed eminent historian Associate Professor Raelene Frances as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts. The position carries with it an appointment as Professor.
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| Newly appointed Dean of Arts at Monash, Associate Professor Raelene Frances. |
Associate Professor Frances, currently Head of the School of History at the University of New South Wales, is renowned for excellence in teaching and research, and has received numerous academic awards.
She will take up the appointment in January 2007, replacing Professor Homer Le Grand who will return to a Professorial role in Monash's School of Philosophy and Bioethics.
Associate Professor Frances said she was looking forward to her role at Monash. "Monash is an innovative, outward-looking university with a strong commitment to social justice and the humanities and social sciences," she said. "I am excited by the prospect of working closely with the many talented staff within the Faculty of Arts."
Associate Professor Frances holds a Bachelor of Arts (honours) and a Masters degree from the University of Western Australia. She completed a doctorate at Monash University in 1989 and has published extensively on the history of women, work, Aboriginal/European contact, and religious and community history in Australia.
She has authored five books including The Politics of Work (Cambridge University Press, 1993), which won the Australian Historical Association's W.K. Hancock Prize in 1994, and Women and the Great War (co-authored with Associate Professor Bruce Scates), which won the NSW Premier's History Prize in 1998.
She has worked as a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Murdoch University, the University of Auckland and the University of NSW. For the past 16 years she has held various academic positions at the University of NSW 's School of History, and has been Head of the School since 2005.
In 2001, Associate Professor Frances received the University of NSW Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2002 was presented with a Commonwealth Government Australian Award for University Teaching for excellence in the humanities and the arts, which she shared with Associate Professor Scates.
Vice-Chancellor Professor Richard Larkins said he was delighted to be welcoming a person of Associate Professor Frances 's high standing to Monash University.
"Associate Professor Frances is a distinguished historian who comes to the university with an outstanding academic record in teaching and research," Professor Larkins said. "On behalf of the university community I would like to congratulate her and look forward to working with her as Dean."
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