C. J. Coventry

(1991-02-25) 25 February 1991

Australian National University (BA)
University of Adelaide (LLB)
University of New South Wales (MA)
Federation University Australia (PhD)

Keynes from Below: A Social History of Second World War Keynesian Economics (2023)

Keir Reeves

Social history

Federation University Australia
Australian Senate

The "Eloquence" of Robert J. Hawke: United States Informer, 1973–79 (2021)
Links in the Chain: British Slavery, Victoria and South Australia (2019)

Education and political career[edit]

Coventry grew up in the village of Stirling, South Australia in the Adelaide Hills.[1] He attended Stirling East Primary School and Prince Alfred College in Adelaide where he was captain of debating, editor of the school yearbook, and won Head of the River.[2][3] After school Coventry studied at Adelaide Law School. In 2014 Coventry moved to Canberra to work in Senator Nick Xenophon's parliamentary office in the Australian Senate.[4] He spent two years at Parliament, during which time he completed a degree in arts at the Australian National University, where he was educated by historian Frank Bongiorno.[5]