Geoffrey Bolton - Academic Career

Academic Career

• Educated at the University of Western Australia and Oxford University
• Research Fellow at the Australian National University in 1957
• Senior Lecturer at Monash University in 1962
• Professor of Modern History at the University of Western Australia in 1966
• Foundation Professor of History at Murdoch University in 1973
• Pro Vice-Chancellor of Murdoch University from 1973 to 1975
• Dean of the School of Social Inquiry at Murdoch University from 1976 to 1978
• Visiting Commonwealth Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge 1978 and 1979.
• Professor and head of the Australian Studies Centre at the University of London from 1982 until 1985
• Professor of Australian History at the University of Queensland in 1989
• Professor of History at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia
• Retired from academia in 1996
• Chancellor of Murdoch University from July 2002 to November 2006.