Stefan Petrow

Brief description

A/Prof Stefan PetrowBorn in Hobart, Stefan was educated at the University of Tasmania and Cambridge University in England, where he obtained his Ph.D. Stefan teaches Australian history and supervises Honours and RHD students in various aspects of Tasmanian history.
Career SummaryAt UTAS, Stefan serves on the School of History and Classics Postgraduate Committee, the Faculty of Arts Students Complaints Panel, the Academic Senate Students Complaints Panel and the Academic Senate Students Misconduct Panel.
Outside the University, Stefan serves on the Executive Committee of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association, the Executive Committee of the Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society, the Tasmanian Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, the National Archives of Australia (Tasmania) Consultative Forum and the Port Arthur Conservation Advisory Panel. He is an Associate of the Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Property Rights (Newcastle University). Since April 2008 he has been a member of the Tasmanian Library Advisory Board.
Research Interests Stefan's research mainly focuses on Tasmanian history from the 1820s to the present.
His current projects include the history of policing in Tasmania from 1826, a biography of William Denison and the annotation of selected Tasmanian Supreme Court judgments since 1824. www.law.mq.edu.au/sctas/