Iain Mc Calman, Research Professor, Department of History, University of Sydney (Australia)
Iain McCalman was born in Nyasaland, Africa, in 1947 and did his higher education in Australia. He has written numerous books and articles, including the Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age and The Last Alchemist (2003), currently translated into twelve languages. He is a Fellow of three national and international Learned Academies and is a past President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is a Research Professor in history at the University of Sydney, and his latest book, Darwin’s Armada, has this year been published in Australia, Great Britain and the United States. It is the basis of a forthcoming TV series to be aired on the ABC in November 2009. He writes occasional op eds for the New York Times, has worked several times with the BBC on history documentaries and was awarded an AO in 2007 for services to history and the humanities.
