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ANU Department of Political Science
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- Department of Political Science and of International Relations (1958 - 1959)
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Dates of existence
1951 - 1989
History
The Department of Political Science (DPS) was established within the Research School of Social Sciences in 1949. However, the first appointment to the Department occurred in 1951, when Mr L.C. Webb (later Professor) took up the position of Reader and Head of the Department. For two years, 1958-1959, the DPS combined with the Department of International Relations (DIR) as a temporary arrangement and was known as the Department of Political Science & of International Relations. In 1960, the DPS returned to its original name after the members whose work was in the DIR were transferred to The Research School of Pacific Studies. In 1988, a review of activities of the Research School were carried out and as a result all former departments, centres and units within the RSSS were de-established in 1989. From 1990, the RSSS was organised into four divisions and the DPS subsequently became a part of the Division of Politics and Economics.
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Head of Department
• Professor L C Webb: 1951 - 1962 (Reader: 1951 - 1955)
• Professor Robert Stewart Parker: 1963 - 1978
• Professor Donald Alexander Aitkin: 1980 - 1988
Professors
• Arthur Lee Burns: 1966 - 1976
Readers
• R S Parker: 1953 - 1962 (Public Administration)
• A L Burns: 1960 - 1965
Professorial Fellows
• Professor T H Rigby: 1963 -1989
• Professor Colin Anfield Hughes: 1975 - 1983
Senior Fellows
• A L Burns: 1959
• Donald William Rawson: 1965 - 1989 (Acting Head of Department: 1989)
• Peter Loveday: 1967 - 1986
• Robert Farnham Miller: 1976 - 1989
Senior Research Fellows
• D W Rawson: 1964
• D A Aitkin: 1968 - 1972
• John Addison Ballard: 1972 - 1979
Fellows
• A L Burns: 1957 - 1958
• D W Rawson: 1960 - 1961
• C A Hughes: 1961 - 1965
• Robert Farnham Miller: 1973 - 1975
Research Fellows
• Dr W K Rolph: Sep 1953 - Dec 1953
• D W Rawson: 1957
• A L Burns: 1955 - 1956
• Dr G E Caiden: 1961 - 1966
• D A Aitkin: 1965 - 1967
• Nina Heathcote: 1967 - 1974
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Revised by Naomi Newton July 2014
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Sources
Annual Report, RSSS, 1990 (AU ANUA 53)
ANU Calendars and Staff lists