Eileen Chanin is a historian at the University of New South Wales, and is currently the Menzies Fellow at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King's College London. Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art (2005), co-authored with Steven Miller, received the NSW Premier's Australian History Award. The pair also co-authored The Art and Life of Weaver Hawkins (1995). Eileen Chanin's other books include Limbang Rebellion: 7 Days in December 1962 (2013) and Book Life: The life and times of David Scott Mitchell (2011).
