Mark Finnane is a CEPS Chief Investigator, Professor of History at Griffith University and an ARC Australian Professorial Fellow. He has been Dean of Graduate Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Griffith University. He has served on the ARC College of Experts and on the Council of the Australia Academy of Humanities. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities in 2000.

 

HIs early research on the history of mental hospitals and the treatment of mental illness was the foundation for his later focus on the history of policing, criminal justice and responses to violence.

 

His many books and articles include Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland (1981 and 2003); Police and Government: Histories of Policing in Australia (1994); Punishment in Australian Society (1997); When Police Unionise: the Politics of Law and Order in Australia (2002); and J V Barry: a Life (2007).

 

With Heather Douglas (University of Queensland) he has recently completed a major study of the history of Australian criminal jurisdiction and Indigenous violent crime, to be published as Indigenous Crime and Settler Law: White Sovereignty after Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

 

At CEPS Mark is leading research projects that: