Ambassador Jeffrey Bleich

US Ambassador to Australia

Jeffrey Bleich is the US Ambassador to Australia. He visited the US Studies Centre in December 2009 to discuss the US-Australian relationship with students. He was also a speaker at the US Studies Cen… more

Professor Fred Greenstein

Professor of Politics at Princeton University and presidential historian

Fred I. Greenstein visited the US Studies Centre in December 2009.… more

Professor James Fallows

Visiting Professor at the US Studies Centre & National Correspondent for The Atlantic

James Fallows is Visiting Professor at the US Studies Centre and National Correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly magazine. One of the world's leading journalists, Fallows is author of nine books and o… more

Professor Richard White

Professor of History at Stanford University

Richard White, a professor of history at Stanford University, visited the US Studies Centre in September 2009. He is widely regarded as one of America's leading scholars in three related fields: the A… more

Taryn Simon

Photographic artist

http://www.tarynsimon.com/

Taryn Simon is a photographic artist who visited the US Studies Centre in September 2009. Her most recent work, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, reveals that which is integral to Americ… more

Jim Johnson

Businessman and Democratic Party strategist

James A. Johnson is a member of the US Studies Centre's Council of Advisors. He was a visitor the US Studies Centre in September 2009.… more

Dennis Richardson, AO

Board of Directors

Dennis Richardson is a member of the US Studies Centre Board of Directors. He was a speaker at the Centre's National Summit in June 2011.… more

Cliff May

Former Director of Communications for the Republican National Committee

Clifford D. May was a visitor at the US Studies Centre in August 2009.… more

Professor David Blight

Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University

David W. Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University, joining that faculty in January, 2003. He previously taught at Amherst College for thirteen years. As of June, 2004, … more

Edward Albee

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning American playwright

Edward Albee burst onto the American theatrical scene in the late 1950s with a variety of plays that detailed the agonies and disillusionment of that decade and the transition from the placid Eisenhow… more

Professor Adam Graycar

Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

Dr Adam Graycar is Professor at the School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University. He took up the post in July 2007 after a long career in government and academia in Australia. He is also the Direc… more

Professor Lawrence Gostin

Associate Dean (Research and Academic Programs) and the Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center

Lawrence O. Gostin is a member of the US Studies Centre's International Academic Advisory Committee. Previously he was a Visiting Professor at the Centre.… more

C. Ray Nagin

Former Mayor of New Orleans

C. Ray Nagin is the former Mayor of New Orleans. He visited Australia for the US Studies Centre National Summit in 2009 and the Emergency Management and Business Continuity Summit in 2011.… more

The Honourable Peter Garrett, AM, MP

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts

Peter Garrett was elected as the Labor Member for Kingsford Smith at the 2004 federal election. In 2007, he was appointed Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts following the election of … more

Malcolm Turnbull, MP

Malcolm Turnbull is the Member for Wentworth in the Australian federal government. He was Leader of the Opposition for the Coalition from September 2008 until December 2009 and Shadow Treasurer in 200… more

Professor Robert Lawrence

Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, Harvard University

Robert Z. Lawrence is Albert L. Williams Professor of International Trade and Investment, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a Research Associate at the Nationa… more

Professor Ross Garnaut, AO

Garnaut Climate Change Review

Professor Ross Garnaut was a speaker at the US Studies Centre's 2009 National Summit.… more

Professor Richard Locke

Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT

Richard Locke, the Alvin J. Siteman (1948) Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Political Science, teaches in both the Sloan School of Management and the MIT Political Science Department. He… more

Professor Peter Gourevitch

Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UCSD’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies

Peter A. Gourevitch is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at UCSD's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, of which he is also the Founding Dean. As a world-renowned exper… more

Professor Michael Hiscox

Director of the STAR Lab at the US Studies Centre and Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University

Michael J. Hiscox is the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He received his B. Econ. (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney in 1989 and his Ph.D in … more

Professor Thomas Mann

W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution

Thomas E. Mann is the W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. Between 1987 and 1999, he was Director of Governmental Studies at Brookings. Befor… more

Professor Annette Gordon-Reed

Professor of Law at New York Law School and Professor of History at Rutgers, USA

Annette Gordon-Reed is Professor of Law at New York Law School since 1992 and Professor of History at Rutgers University. She has a long fascination with the Jefferson family and her first book was Th… more

Professor Robert Burgelman

Executive Director of the Stanford Executive Program

Robert A. Burgelman, noted expert on innovation and strategy, visited the Centre in March and April May.  He was the keynote speaker at the Asia Pacific Symposium on Entrepreneurship & Innova… more

Robert Thomson

Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones & Company and Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal

Robert Thomson is the Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones & Company and the Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal. As the senior news executive at Dow Jones, Mr Thomson directs the news operations o… more

Barry Jackson

Former advisor to President George W. Bush

Former White House advisor to George W. Bush, Barry Jackson was a guest of the Centre in March 2008.  Mr Jackson analysed the achievements of the Bush Administration and the Obama Administration'… more

Professor Edward Leamer

Director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast

Edward Leamer, guest of the US Studies Centre in March 2008, provided expert analysis on the global financial crisis in a US Studies public forum and extensive media interviews during his visit to Aus… more

Professor Simon Jackman

Visiting Professor at the US Studies Centre & Professor of Political Science at Stanford University

Simon Jackman is Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) of Statistics at Stanford University. Jackmanʼs teaching and research centres on issues in democratic politics (public opinion, polit… more