Marnie Hughes-Warrington
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Marnie T. E. Hughes-Warrington is the Pro-Vice Chancellor (Learning and Teaching) at Monash University. At Monash, Professor Hughes-Warrington is responsible for leading:
  • curriculum reform and renewal
  • the Virtual Learning Environment Project - Monash's online learning and teaching project
  • the ongoing development of The Monash Passport, which offers a broad range of curriculum and co-curriculum activities to students
  • the development of a framework to support educational excellence


Professor Hughes-Warrington was awarded a Bachelor of Education with First-Class Honours by the University of Tasmania
University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania is a medium-sized public Australian university based in Tasmania, Australia. Officially founded on 1 January 1890, it was the fourth university to be established in nineteenth-century Australia...

 in 1991 and subsequently was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, where she completed a PhD on R. G. Collingwood
R. G. Collingwood
Robin George Collingwood was a British philosopher and historian. He was born at Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands in Lancashire, the son of the academic W. G. Collingwood, and was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford, where he read Greats...

 at Merton College, Oxford University in 1995.

She has taught in units on social philosophy, early modern Europe, historiography and historical films at Oxford, Macquarie, and Tasmania universities, and in Germany and the USA. In 2008, she was a joint recipient of the Prime Minister's Award for University Teacher of the Year and in the same year was awarded the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Teaching Excellence Award in Humanities and the Arts. Professor Hughes-Warrington is the author of several books:
  • Fifty Key Thinkers on History (Routledge, 2009)
  • The History of Film Reader (Routledge, 2009)
  • How Good an Historian Shall I Be? R. G. Collingwood, the Historical Imagination and Education (Imprint Academic, 2007)
  • History Goes to the Movies (Routledge, 2007)


She has also edited The Palgrave Guide to World Histories (aka Palgrave Advances in World Histories) and is currently working on a new book on the revision of histories.

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