Dr. Cam Coventry is an historian and educator interested in how the past relates to the present, particularly through popular historical knowledge.

Among his better-known works is The Eloquence of Robert J. Hawke about the secret relationship between a former trade union leader (and future Australian prime minister) and the United States of America. He received the John Barrett Award in 2024 for his work on late capitalist masculine identity in Australia, Sedimentary Layers.

Cam’s other works of history discuss the financial importance of British slavery, the social history of Keynesianism, the origins of Keynesian economics and the reformation of the intelligence and security apparatus in the 1970s. He has also written opinion pieces on environmental and heritage conservation and the Iraq War, as well as book reviews covering topics such as biographies of Winston Churchill and Robert Menzies.

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Cam was awarded a PhD in history from Federation University in 2023. He has an MA in politics (University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy), a BA in international relations (Australian National University) and an LLB (Adelaide University). Prior to his academic career he worked in national politics.

Born and raised in Adelaide, Australia, Cam has lived in Canberra, Melbourne, Ballarat and in New Zealand on the edge of Fiordland National Park. He now lives in South London, along with his wife and three children, where he enjoys domesticity and catching up on things he’s missed.