Australia's First University Press

Mark Hearn


Mark Hearn is a lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University. He has published widely in the field of Australian history and contributed opinion pieces on Australian politics and history to the press. He was a co-editor of Rethinking Work: Time Space Discourse, published by Cambridge University Press (2006). From 2002 to 2005 he was a sesquicentenary post-doctoral fellow in Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. In 2014-15 he was an Australian Prime Ministers' Centre fellow at the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra.

Books

Related News

Extract: Nation, Memory, Myth by Steve Vizard

Posted on 11 Jun 2025

How does myth generate meaning for a nation and its citizens? How does a national myth transform into symbolic performances of cultural memory and kinship?  

Extract: Beyond Green by Lesley Head

Posted on 11 Jun 2025

Culture, society and human behaviour have forever been linked to nature. In her thought-provoking book, Lesley Head, geographer and Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus at…

Letter From the Publisher

Posted on

We started the year by moving tens of thousands of physical books across state lines, swam through oceans of metadata and updated our back-end systems…

Related Events

Dymocks Luncheon with Chris Hammer (NSW)

Fri 27 June at 12:00PM

Four Seasons Hotel, 199 George Street, Sydney NSW 2000

Join Chris Hammer in conversation with ABC's Fran Kelly to discuss the updated edition of The River.

Author Talk: Chris Hammer on The River (SA)

Thu 10 July at 6:30PM

Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Road Tusmore, SA 5065

Learn more about author Chris Hammer's prize-winning non-fiction book about the Murray Darling Basin.