The AHA pays its respects to Carl Boris Schedvin, a leading Australian economic historian, who passed away last month. Born in 1936, Boris was raised in Sydney’s eastern suburbs and graduated from the University of Sydney with a PhD in the mid-1960s. His influential publications included Australia and the Great Depression (1970), War Economy 1942-45 (1977), Shaping Science and Industry: A History of Australia’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research 1926-49 (1987), Australian Financiers (1988), and In Reserve: Central Banking in Australia, 1945-75 (1992). Boris served as co-editor of Australian Economic History Review (now Asia-Pacific Economic History Review) between 1966 and 1972, President of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand from 1986 to 1992 and as a member of the editorial boards of Business History and Historical Studies. He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 1987. In addition to academic appointments at Monash University, the University of Sydney and London School of Economics, he was an important leader at the University of Melbourne where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Management) from 1991 to 2000. He has been remembered in recent weeks for his ‘collegial engagement and personal commitment’ during a period of enormous change in the higher education sector. The AHA offers its respects to Boris’s children, Sven and Natasha, and his friends and colleagues.