Dr Rhys Crawley
Dr Rhys Crawley
OFFICIAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN AND EAST TIMOR
Dr Rhys Crawley is an historian with an honours (1st class) degree in history from the University of Wollongong, and a PhD from the UNSW (University College, Australian Defence Force Academy). In 2007 he was selected as an annual summer scholar at the Australian War Memorial. Dr Crawley has been the recipient of several research scholarships, and has given talks on aspects of his research on the Gallipoli campaign at the University of Birmingham, the Imperial War Museum, the University of London, the US Naval Academy, the Australian War Memorial, and the Istanbul Medeniyet University. He is the principal researcher and co-author of the multi-volume Official History of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), and is a co-author of volume 1 of the Official History of Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. The author of Climax at Gallipoli: The failure of the August Offensive (University of Oklahoma Press, 2014), he researches, teaches, and writes on aspects of Australian military, logistic, security, and intelligence history. A member of the Australian Army Research Grants Committee and a Research School of Asia & the Pacific (RSAP) Fellow, Dr Crawley also co-convenes the SDSC War Studies Seminar.