Mark Peel

Who is Mark Peel?

Mark Andrew Peel, historian and academic, is Pro Vice Chancellor and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at the University of Leicester. He was formerly a Professor of Modern Cultural and Social History and Head of the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool and a Professor and Head of the School of Historical Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University in Australia. He is the author of Good Times, Hard Times: The Past and the Future in Elizabeth; A Little History of Australia; The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty and Miss Cutler and the Case of the Resurrected Horse: Social Work and the Story of Poverty in America, Australia, and Britain. With a former Monash University colleague, Christina Twomey, he has also written A History of Australia. He holds degrees from Flinders University, Johns Hopkins University and Melbourne University and was appointed a full Professor in 2007. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2008 and became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2010.