Australian Chair News Student Funding Conference Funding Australian Committee Harvard Committee Visiting Professors Info for Visitors THE AUSTRALIAN CHAIR AT HARVARD The Visiting Professorship in Australian Studies was established by a gift from the Australian Government to Harvard in 1976, in commemoration of America's Bicentennial, "in order to maintain such teaching, research and publication as will help to promote awareness and understanding of Australia in the United States of America." Since that time, Harvard University has invited distinguished visiting scholars, on an annual basis, who represent various fields of specialization and who offer lectures and seminars, meet students and faculty, and visit other American universities with Australian Studies programs. The procedure for appointment to the Chair in Australian Studies initiates with a Nominating Committee in Australia. That committee seeks expressions of interest and determines a short list of nominees. The names are then forwarded to Harvard's Australian Studies Committee for the final selection. This Committee invites the appropriate department to host the visitor, and the Dean of the host School within Harvard then issues the formal invitation. The current Chair of the Australian Nominating Committee is Professor Graeme Davison of Monash University in Australia. All inquiries about applications to this Visiting Professorship should be directed to Professor Davison. The current Chair of the Harvard Australian Studies Committee is Professor David Haig, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. The coordinator of the Committee is Ms. Janet Hatch, 201 Robinson Hall. Past, Current and Future Holders of the Harvard Australian Chair, Canberra, Australia, November 2007