Dean Laureate Rob Pascoe

Robert Pascoe is Dean Laureate and a Professor of History at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is the author, editor or co-author of 35 books and technical reports, mostly in the areas of Australian history, tertiary education and World History. His publications include: World History, 2 vols, 2013, 2018; The Feasts & Seasons of John F. Kelly, 2006; A Lettered Country, 2004; The Winter Game, 1995; The Seasons of Treviso, 1995; The Recollections of Luigi Grollo, 1988; Buongiorno Australia, 1987; In Old Kalgoorlie, 1989, 2010; and The Manufacture of Australian History, 1979.

His current book in progress is entitled How to Read a City, co-authored with Dr Chris McConville.

Pascoe has taught, administered and researched at Victoria University since 1984. From 1989 to 2005 he served as the University’s founding Dean of Arts; from 1998 to 2003 he also headed the University’s St Albans campus.

Pascoe undertook his postdoctoral studies during the academic years 1981/82 and 1982/83 in the Department of History at Harvard University, where he was a Harkness Fellow and a Charles Warren Fellow. His first academic appointments (1974-1981) were at the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University.

His current research interests are:

• The neighbourhood as a frame for histories of immigration
• Indigenous Australians in the Italian imaginary
• Australian football as frontier history
• World History since 1770: Human destiny in human hands
• Representations of cultural diversity