Stuart Macintyre

Stuart Forbes Macintyre (21 April 1947 – 22 November 2021) was an influential Australian historian and Emeritus Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1999 to 2008[1][3]. He was widely recognized as Australia's foremost left-wing historian and is best known for his magisterial work on the Communist Party of Australia, having authored over a dozen books[1][6].