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Professor Maurice French AM

Name :	Professor Maurice French AM
Position :	Professor Emeritus
Section :	Faculty of Arts Faculty of Arts Administration
Office :	Q105
Phone :	+61 7 4631 5358
Extension :	5358
E-mail :
Qualifications :	BA(Hons) Tas MA Flinders DLitt Tas

Professional Memberships

Fellow, Royal Historical Society of Queensland
Member, Professional Historians' Association (Qld)

Research Interests

Australian Regional History
Darling Downs History

Recent Research Outcomes

Three most recent :

'Darling Downs: an historical overview' in Anne Monsour (ed)Here to Stay: Lebanese in Toowoomba and Southwest Queensland. Sydney: Australian Lebanese Historical Society, 2012. pp. 14-36.
Toowoomba: A Sense of History 1840-2008. Toowoomba: University of Southern Queensland, 2009.
'What Fate Awaits? The Indigenous Peoples of the Darling Downs 1851-1852'.Queensland Review, Vol 9 No 1 (May 2002) pp.23-33

Most notable :
A History of the Darling Downs Frontier, 3 vols. Toowoomba: USQ Press, 1989-1992

Teaching Experience

Tertiary : 36 years
Other : 2 years