Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Academy Fellows

Year elected: 1976
Panel: C
Discipline: History

Emeritus Professor Geoffrey Bolton, AO

Bolton, Geoffrey Curgenven. MA, DPhil (Oxford), FAHA, HonDUniv (Murdoch)

Geoffrey Bolton is pro-chancellor and senior scholar in residence at Murdoch University, emeritus professor at Edith Cowan University and adjunct professor at Curtin University of Technology. He continues to research and write on Australian history, British Commonwealth history, and 18th and early 19th century British and Irish history. He is currently working on a short history of Western Australia and completing a biography of William Eden, Lord Auckland. He also has experience in advising on museum policy.

Key appointments

  • Council Member, Australian National Maritime Museum
  • Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
  • Chair, National Centre for Excellence, Western Australian Maritime Museum.


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