Professor EmeritusRoger Benjamin

BA Hons (U Melbourne); MA and PhD (Bryn Mawr College, PA)FAHA (Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities)

Born and raised in Canberra, ACT, Roger Benjamin took an Honours degree in Philosophy and Fine Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1979. His MA and PhD were undertaken at Bryn Mawr College outside Philadelphia, whence his doctoral work on early Matisse took him to Paris (1982-83). Roger was appointed in 1984 as Lecturer in Fine Arts at Melbourne where he worked until 1998. From 1998-2000 he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. He then taught at the ANU School of Art until his appointment as Power Professor and Director of the Power Institute at the University of Sydney (2003). From 2007 he has been Professor of Art History in the Discipline of Art History at the University of Sydney. His visiting fellowships include the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and the Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Mass.). In 2013 Professor Benjamin was awarded the prestigious 3-year Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award (DORA) of the Australian Research Council. In 2020 he was awarded a major ARC Discovery grant.