Current positions

Emeritus Professor AM FAHA Australian National University, Canberra
Guest Curator National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Australian Government, Department of Communications and the Arts Cultural Gifts Program approved valuer

Awards and distinctions

Associate in Art History, Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne, 2017-19
Australian Government, Department of Communications and the Arts Cultural Gifts Program approved valuer in the fields of:
Russian, Greek, Eastern European and Byzantine religious icons;
Australian painting, prints, sculpture and works on paper post 1900
Guest Curator, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, 2014-2015.
Visiting Professor, University of Business and Economics, Beijing, 2013/14.
Honorary Creative Fellowship, 2010-13, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.
Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning from the Australian Learning & Teaching Council citation reading “For the creation of innovative and vocationally orientated methods of teaching art history and curatorship” 2008.
Appointed to the Sir William Dobell Chair of Art History, citation “the University recognises your pre-eminent national and international research, publication and teaching record.  This is in terms of not only the high quality of your research, but the large volume and sustained nature of your contribution”, 2008.
Awarded: Order of Australia [Member in the General Division] citation: “For service to the visual arts and to contemporary Australian artists as an educator, critic and writer, and as an art historian”, 2005.
Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2004.
Visiting Scholar, U.R.I., University of Harvard, 1991, 1992-93, 1993-94; 1994-95.
Australian Academy of Humanities, Travelling Scholarship, 1991.
Summer Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University), Washington, D.C., 1988.
ANU PhD Scholarship, 1974-77.
Australian Government Moscow University Exchange Scholarship, 1973-74.
Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship, 1972-75.
Dwight Final Examination Prize, University of Melbourne, 1972.

Academic qualifications

1967
1972
1975
1981

Matriculation, Melbourne, First Class Honours in all subjects.
BA University of Melbourne, Hons I, Fine Arts.
MA University Melbourne [Fine Arts].
PhD ANU [Art History].
Study at the University of Moscow, University of London (Courtauld Institute) and Oxford University.

Previous appointments

1971-1972
1973-1974
1974-1977
1975-1976
1975-1976
1976
1977 - present
1977-1978
1977-1987
1978-1980
1981-1984
1985-1992
1992-2002
1998-2013
2004-2013

Part-time tutor, Fine Arts, Melbourne University.
Junior Research Fellow, Department of Fine Art, Moscow University.
PhD candidate, Australian National University.
Occasional student, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
Recognised student, University of Oxford.
Part-time Lecturer in Mediaeval Studies, Australian National University.
Chief Art Critic, The Canberra Times
Visiting Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University.
Head, Fine Art Program, Australian National University.
Lecturing Fellow in Fine Art, Australian National University.
Lecturer in Fine Art, Australian National University.
Senior Lecturer in Art History, Australian National University.
Reader in Art History, Australian National University.
Head, Department of Art History and Visual Studies, Australian National University.
Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History and Head of Art History, Australian National University

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