Graeme Davison

Graeme Davison
Graeme Davison
Born	Melbourne
Awards	Officer of the Order of Australia (2011); Ernest Scott Prize (1979); Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Melbourne (BA [Hons]); University of Oxford; Australian National University (Ph.D)
Thesis	'The Rise and Fall of "Marvellous Melbourne" 1880–1895' (1969)
Doctoral advisor	John Andrew La Nauze
Academic work
Institutions	Monash University; University of Melbourne
Main interests	social history, cultural history
Notable works	The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne (1979); The Use and Abuse of Australian History (2000)

Graeme John Davison, AO, FASSA, FAHA (born 1940) is an Australian historian who is the Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor in the School of Historical Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He is best known for his work on Australian urban history. Davison won the prestigious Ernest Scott Prize in 1979 for The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne.