Ian Robert Tyrrell (born 1947) is an Australian historian who is notable for his work on American exceptionalism[1] and transnational history.
He is the author of twelve books, including True Gardens of the Gods: Californian-Australian Environmental Reform, 1860 –1930[4] and Historians in Public: The Practice of American History, 1890-1970.
Born in Brisbane, Queensland, Tyrrell completed a BA Honours Degree at the University of Queensland and a PhD at Duke University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and James B. Duke Fellow.
Tyrrell is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and was awarded a Commonwealth of Australia Centenary Medal in 2003.
He has been a visiting professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and Joyce Appleby (Visiting) Professor of United States History at the University of California, Los Angeles, in fall 2009.