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Professor David Day is a noted historian who has held academic positions in Australia and overseas. He is currently Professor of Australian Studies at the Centre for Pacific and American Studies at the University of Tokyo in Japan.
He was the inaugural National Museum of Australia's Director's Fellow in 2007 and used his time in Canberra to research the papers of Australian prime minister Andrew Fisher, for a forthcoming biography.
Professor Day has written broadly on Australian history. His analysis of Australian and Allied politics during the Second World War includes Menzies and Churchill at War, The Great Betrayal and Reluctant Nation.
Professor Day has also written biographies of two Australian Prime Ministers, John Curtin and Ben Chifley; a general history of Australia, Claiming a Continent; and, on an even broader scale, Conquest: A New History of the Modern World.
Professor Day's book The Weather Watchers: A Centenary History of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, was published in 2007.
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