ANU Department of Political Science

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Type of entity

University unit

Authorized form of name

ANU Department of Political Science

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      Other form(s) of name

      • Department of Political Science and of International Relations (1958 - 1959)

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      Description area

      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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      Internal structures/genealogy

      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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      Relationships area

      Related entity

      ANU Research School of Social Sciences (1949 -)

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      hierarchical

      Dates of relationship

      1951 - 1989

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      null

      Related entity

      Ballard, John Addison (1930 - 2014)

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      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1972 - 1979

      Description of relationship

      Senior Research Fellow

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      Rigby, Thomas Henry (1925 - 2011)

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      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1963 - 1989

      Description of relationship

      Professorial Fellow

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      Caiden, Gerald Elliot (1936 -)

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      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1961 - 1966

      Description of relationship

      Research Fellow

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      Rawson, Donald William (1930 - 1997)

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      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1957 - 1989

      Description of relationship

      Senior Fellow; Senior Research Fellow; Fellow; Research Fellow

      Related entity

      Rolph, William Kirby (1917 - 1953)

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      Category of relationship

      associative

      Dates of relationship

      6 Sep 1953 - 23 Dec 1953

      Description of relationship

      Research Fellow

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      Parker, Robert Stewart (1915 - 2002)

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      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1953 - 1978

      Description of relationship

      Professor, Head of Department; Reader (Public Administration)

      Related entity

      Webb, Leicester Chisholm (1905 - 1962)

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      Category of relationship

      associative

      Dates of relationship

      1951 - 1962

      Description of relationship

      Professor and Head of Department; Reader

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      Dates of creation, revision and deletion

      Revised by Naomi Newton July 2014

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          Sources

          Annual Report, RSSS, 1990 (AU ANUA 53)
          ANU Calendars and Staff lists

          Maintenance notes