Rate My Professor Mark Hearn

In his career, Hearn has served as a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University. Notable appointments include Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Philosophical Studies of History, University of Oulu, Finland in 2018, where he researched historical periodization of the fin de siècle; Researcher with the International Network for Theory of History since 2017; and Australian Prime Minister’s Centre Fellow at the Museum of Australian Democracy, Old Parliament House, Canberra from 2014 to 2015. He was awarded the C.H. Currey Memorial Fellowship by the State Library of New South Wales in 2006. Hearn has been a member of the Editorial Board of Labour History since 2002. Among his key publications are the monograph The Fin de Siècle Imagination in Australia (Bloomsbury, 2022); "Negotiating 'a realm of public power and responsibility': Labour's social imaginary of governance at Federation" in Australian Historical Studies (2025); "Interpreting Eric Hobsbawm's History of the Fin de Siècle 'Twilight Zone'" in The Historical Journal (2023); "A single Australia? Alan Atkinson's narrative construction of late modernity" in History Australia (2022); and "The fin de siècle and the multiple temporalities of historical periodization" in Rethinking History (2022). He has delivered presentations such as "Dissolving into history? Historicizing Modern Nation Building" in 2018 and contributed opinion pieces, including "Is the prime ministership really an 'impossible office'?" in the Canberra Times (2022).