Paul ARTHUR

Paul Arthur is Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow and Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Sciences, at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He speaks and publishes widely on major challenges and changes facing 21st-century society, from the global impacts of technology on communication, culture and identity to migration and human rights. Since 2017 he has been Director of the Edith Cowan Centre for Global Issues. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has held visiting positions in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America. Paul Arthur was Australia’s first Professor in Digital Humanities (Western Sydney University, 2013–16). He was previously Deputy Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies and the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, and was Deputy General Editor, Australian Dictionary of Biography. He has served on executive boards and councils of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations; centerNet—the worldwide network of digital humanities centres (Co-Chair, 2015–19); the International Auto/Biography Association; the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (founding President 2011–15, Vice-President 2018–21); the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (2010–19); and the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources initiative of the Australian Government (2012–18).