G.W. Trompf
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Garry Winston Trompf ("G.W. Trompf", born in Melbourne, Australia, on 27 November 1940) is emeritus professor in the History of Ideas at the University of Sydney and adjunct professor in Peace and Conflict Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney.[1]
He is noted for research in the history of ideas, in religious studies, and in the anthropology of Melanesian cultures.
Trompf has been described as "Australia’s only historian of ideas," is considered a leading authority on Melanesian religions, and is noted for his development of "retributive logic" (the logic of payback) and his analysis of historical recurrence (the recurrence of similar events in the rises and falls of empires, in the history of a given polity, or in any two specific events which bear a striking similarity).
Honors
Trompf was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2002.[2]
