Peter McPhee is Honorary Professorial Fellow at The University of Melbourne, Australia.
He has published widely on the history of modern France, including: A Social History of
France 1789-1914 (2004); Robespierre: a Revolutionary Life (2012); and Liberty or
Death: The French Revolution 1789-1799 (2016). Professor McPhee was elected a
Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1997 and a Fellow of the
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2003. Earlier that year he had received
the Centenary Medal for services to Australian education. In 2012, McPhee was made a
Member of the Order of Australia.
