Andrew May

Andrew May (born 1963) is an Australian social historian. He is a professor of Australian history in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies of the University of Melbourne.

Education and career May has a D.Phil from the University of Melbourne.

He is producer of My Marvellous Melbourne, a podcast. He has curated a number of exhibitions at the City Gallery, Melbourne, including Read all about it! Melbourne's newsboys (2005); Flush! A quest for Melbourne's best public toilets in Art, Architecture & History (2006, with Kirsty Fletcher and Nicki Adams); Paper City: Logos Letterheads and Creative Designs (2011); and City Songs (2017, with Zoe Ali and Christos Tsiolkas).

He is lead investigator on a project titled Cancer Culture, funded by the Australian Research Council in partnership with Cancer Council Victoria.

He has been a historian member of the Heritage Council of Victoria since 2015, and deputy chair since 2020.

Honours and recognition He was elected a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013, and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2018.

Books As author: Melbourne Street Life (1998), Melbourne Scholarly Publishing Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories (2001), Arcadia Federation Square (with Norman Day) (2003), Hardie Grant Books Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India (2012), Manchester University Press

As editor: The Living Heart: Images and Prospects for Central Melbourne (1993), Monash Publications in History Evangelists of Empire?: Missionaries in Colonial History (with A. Barry, J. Cruikshank, P. Grimshaw) (2008), eScholarship Research Centre and The School of Historical Studies The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (with S. Swain), 2005, Cambridge University Press Missionaries, Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Exchange (with P. Grimshaw), (2010), Sussex Academic Press