Former Head of the Department of History, University of Queensland, and currently Adjunct Professor, Charles Sturt University

John Anthony Moses (born 10 June 1930 in Atherton, Queensland) is an Australian historian, history educator and Anglican priest. He is known for his work on modern German history, the history of trade unionism and the history of colonialism.

John earned his B.A. at the University of Queensland in 1959, his M.A. at the University Queensland in 1963 and his PhD at the University of Erlangen in Germany in 1965. He taught at the University of Queensland from 1965 to 1994, as a lecturer, senior lecturer (from 1970), and reader (from 1975). He was head of the history department from 1986. He also became a priest in the Anglican Church of Australia in 1978. He has been a professorial associate at St Mark’s National Theological Centre in Canberra since 2007. He is married to Professor Ingrid Moses, former Chancellor of the University of Canberra.

He has written extensively, in several books and hundreds of journal articles, on:

• the historiography of the First World War
• modern German history (esp trade unionism and the German Empire to 1945)
• theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• the origins and religious dimensions of Anzac Day in Australia
• the relationship between history and culture in Germany and Australia