Peter Stanley
| Peter Stanley | |
|---|---|
| Born |
28 October 1956 Liverpool, England |
| Awards |
Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History (2011) Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2014) |
| Website | peterstanley |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Australian National University |
| Thesis title | White Mutiny: The Bengal Europeans, 1825–75, A Study in Military Social History |
| Thesis year | 1993 |
| Doctoral advisor | Iain McCalman |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions |
University of New South Wales (2013–) National Museum of Australia (2007–13) Australian War Memorial (1980–07) |
| Main interests | Australian military history British medical history |
Peter Alan Stanley FAHA (born 28 October 1956) is an Australian historian and Research Professor at the University of New South Wales in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict and Society. He was Head of the Centre for Historical Research at the National Museum of Australia from 2007–13. Between 1980 and 2007 he was an historian and sometime exhibition curator at the Australian War Memorial, including as head of the Historical Research Section and Principal Historian from 1987. He has written nine books about Australia and the Great War since 2005, and was a joint winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History in 2011.
Stanley was born in Liverpool, England on 28 October 1956 to Albert Edward Stanley and his wife Marjorie Patricia. The family emigrated to Australia in 1966 and settled in the South Australian city of Whyalla, where Stanley was educated at the local high school. In 1975, he relocated to Canberra to attend the Australian National University (ANU). After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1977, Stanley gained a Graduate Diploma of Education from the Canberra College of Advanced Education (now the University of Canberra), and initially embarked on a career as a secondary teacher; a decision he later termed a career "false start". He abandoned teaching to assume a position at the Australian War Memorial in 1980, and returned to the ANU to complete a Bachelor of Letters (1984) and a Doctor of Philosophy (1993).
Stanley has been married to Claire Cruickshank since 2009. He has two daughters through a previous marriage to Mary-Ann Capel.
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