Mark John Durie

Background

Durie, Mark John was born on August 27, 1958 in Dogura, Papua New Guinea. Son of David Frew and Ruth Eleanor (Chennell) Durie.

Education

Bachelor with honors, Australian National University, Canberra, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, Australian National University, Canberra, 1984.

Career

Postdoctoral research fellow University Melbourne, Australia, 1987, from lecturer to senior lecturer to associate professor, reader, 1988-1997. Assistant minister St. Mark's, Camberwell, 1999-2000. Associate minister St. Hilary's, Kew, since 2001.

Visiting scholar Leiden (The Netherlands) University, 1984, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, University of California at Los Angeles, University California, Santa Cruz, Stanford (California) University, 1985-1986.

Achievements

• Mark John Durie has been listed as a noteworthy Linguistics educator, researcher by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • A grammar of Acehnese on the basis of a dialect of north Aceh (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde)

Membership

President Princes Hill Primary School, Carlton, Melbourne, 1993. Fellow Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Connections

Married Deborah Ann Cocks, February 23, 1985. Children: Matthew, David, Christopher.

Father:

David Frew Durie

Mother:

Ruth Eleanor (Chennell) Durie

Spouse:

Deborah Ann Cocks

child:

Christopher Durie

child:

Matthew Durie

child:

David Durie