Kate Darian-Smith is Professor of Australian Studies and History, Faculty of Arts and Professor of Cultural Heritage, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne.
Her cross-disciplinary expertise spans history and cultural heritage, and she has led major research projects and published widely in these fields, including on the history of rural Australia and cultural sustainability in country towns.
She sits on the Council, Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, recently completed two terms on the Board, Australia-Japan Foundation and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
[July 2015]