Peter Sherlock (born 26 October 1972)[1] is an Australian academic and was the inaugural Vice-Chancellor of the University of Divinity in Melbourne, a role he held between 2012 and March 2024.
[2] His D.Phil thesis from the University of Oxford was titled Funeral Monuments: Piety, Honour and Memory in Early Modern England and was supervised by Clive Holmes.
[12] Sherlock's contributions to the Anglican Church includes serving as the Lay Canon of St Paul's Cathedral Melbourne from 2010 to 2016.
[17][18] Sherlock's research explores Renaissance and Reformation Europe history and theology, especially the commemoration of the dead and cultures of remembering and forgetting.
[19] He has also published in the areas of gender and religion, on theological education, and contributed multiple entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.