Professor Peter McPhee

Provost The University of Melbourne Victoria 3010 Australia Phone: +61 3 8344 3744 Fax: +61 3 9341 6010 Email: p.mcphee @unimelb.edu.au

Peter McPhee is the University of Melbourne’s Provost, with particular responsibilities for managing and monitoring changes in the policies and practices that affect the academic life of the University as a whole, including the delivery of curricula and the provision of high quality, consistent student support services.

Professor McPhee was educated at Colac High School, Caulfield Grammar School, and the University of Melbourne, where he completed a BA (Hons 1st Class), Dip.Ed., MA (Hons 1st Class) and PhD. He taught at La Trobe University 1975-79 and the Victoria University of Wellington 1980-86 before returning to the University of Melbourne, where he has held a Personal Chair in History since 1993.

He has published widely on the history of modern France, notably Revolution and Environment in Southern France, 1780-1830 (Oxford, 1999), A Social History of France 1789-1914 (London & New York, 2004) and The French Revolution 1789-1799 (Oxford, 2002). In 1999 he also published a biography of the former Chancellor Roy Douglas ('Pansy') Wright. His most recent book is Living the French Revolution 1789-1799 (London & New York, 2006).

Staff and Contact Details
Gatekeeper's Cottage (Building 187)
Office of the Provost

Executive Assistant
Ms Rosa Brezac
Phone: +61 3 8344 9005
Email: r.brezac @unimelb.edu.au

Administrative Assistant
Ms Julie Ciccone
Phone: +61 3 8344 3744
Email: jciccone @unimelb.edu.au

Project Officer
Dr Gioconda Di Lorenzo
Phone: +61 3 8344 3972
Email: gdlo @unimelb.edu.au

Director, Office of the Provost
Dr Fiona Downie
Phone: +61 3 8344 3658
Email: f.downie @unimelb.edu.au

Policy Adviser
Associate Professor Peter Jamieson
Elisabeth Murdoch Building
Phone: +61 3 8344 6852
Email: p.jamieson @unimelb.edu.au