Charles Thomas "Tom" Stannage AM (born 1944) is a prominent Western Australian historian and academic. He edited the major work A New History of Western Australia, which was published in 1981.
Stannage is the son of the Rev. James Stannage, an Anglican clergyman and Helen Stannage, née Masters. He grew up in the Perth suburbs of Subiaco and Bassendean. Between 1964 and 1967, Stannage played senior football for Swan Districts in the WANFL.[1] He was regarded as his team's best player in the 1965 WANFL Grand Final,[2] and also played for the state team that year.
The University of Western Australia (UWA) awarded Stannage an MA in history in 1967. He then travelled to the U.K. to complete a PhD at Cambridge University, returning to Perth in 1971 to take up a teaching position at UWA. Stannage was later appointed a Professor of History at UWA. He was chosen by UWA Press to edit A New History of Western Australia. In 1991, Stannage was foundation chairman of the Heritage Council of Western Australia. He received the inaugural Prime Minister's Award as Australian University Teacher of the Year, in 1997.
He was appointed Executive Dean, Division of Humanities at Curtin University, in Bentley, WA in 1999. Stannage was invited to attend the Australian History Summit (2006) by federal Minister for Education, Julie Bishop, along with many other prominent Australian historians.