John Gascoigne was educated at Sydney (BA hons 1), Princeton (MA) and Cambridge Universities (PhD and Litt.D) and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has taught in Papua New Guinea and has been at UNSW since 1980. His publications have dealt with the impact of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment along with eighteenth-century exploration. His most recent monographs are Captain Cook. Voyager between Words...view more
John Gascoigne was educated at Sydney (BA hons 1), Princeton (MA) and Cambridge Universities (PhD and Litt.D) and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has taught in Papua New Guinea and has been at UNSW since 1980. His publications have dealt with the impact of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment along with eighteenth-century exploration. His most recent monographs are Captain Cook. Voyager between Words (Continuum, 2007), winner of the Frank Broeze biennial prize of the Australian Maritime History Association and Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2014).
My Qualifications
BA Sydney, MA Princeton, PhD Cambridge, Litt.D Cambridge
My Awards
2014 NSW Premier's History Prize (General Category):: Encountering the Pacific in the Age of the Enlightenment (Cambridge University Press, 2014(also short-listed for the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Awards (Non-fiction section).
2009 Frank Broeze biennial prize of the Australian Maritime History Association: Captain Cook. Voyager between Words (Continuum, 2007) (also Short-listed for NSW Premier’s History Prize (General Category), 2008)
1995 Short-listed for NSW Premier’s Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction: Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment. Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
1990 co-winner, Australian Historical Association’s Hancock Prize for a first book: Cambridge in the Age of the Enlightenment. Science, Religion and Politics from the Restoration to the French Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
My Engagement
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Member of the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
President, Pacific Circle Historical Commission of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of History of Science
Panel member, ERA Humanities Research Assessment Panel, 2012, 2015
My Teaching
ARTS2345 School of Humanities and Languagues Honours II
ARTS2346 School of Humanities and Languagues Honours III
