Avan Judd Stallard earned a PhD in history from the University of Queensland in 2011. As a historian he is concerned with both the messy detail of what happened in the past and how historians do history.

He sees great benefit in big picture history and the synthesis of existing corpuses of knowledge. Stallards interests in diverse fields (e.g., philosophy, psychology, biological sciences, philology) is underpinned by an abiding interest in method and epistemologyhow we get to knowledge and what we purport to do with it.

He is a proponent of greater consilience between the sciences and humanities. When not moonlighting as a historian, Stallard is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He lives in the UK.