A commitment to research spanning four decades has seen a Griffith University history expert awarded a high honour by the Royal Historical Society and the Professional Historians Association (Qld) Inc.
Adjunct lecturer Dr Bill Metcalf of the School of Environment and Science has been been awarded the 2018 John Douglas Kerr Medal of Distinction in Researching and Writing of Australian History, by the Queensland Governor, Paul de Jersey.
Stephen Sheaffe (President of the Royal Historical Association), Professor Ruth Kerr (widow of the historian, John Kerr, after whom the award is named), Dr Bill Metcalf, Paul de Jersey (Queensland Governor) and Dr Tim Roberts (President of the Professional Historians Association).
Dr Metcalf was honoured for his impressive body of research and writing that has advanced the study of Queensland and Australian history most notably through his investigation of utopian communalism in Australia, a project he commenced in 1980.
“I came to Griffith in 1980 and
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