Mark McKenna FAHA (born 1959) is a professor of history at the University of Sydney, noted for his work on Aboriginal history, a biography of Manning Clark and the history of republicanism in Australia.
[1] McKenna was born in 1959 and grew up in the Sydney suburb of Toongabbie.
[2] After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney, he lived in Europe for a period and then taught in high schools in Sydney before completing his PhD at the University of New South Wales in 1996.
[2] McKenna was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2013.
[3] His book Return to Uluru about the shooting death of Yokununna by William (Bill) McKinnon was shortlisted for the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Australian history.