Samantha Tutton

An Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, Marguerite was elected to the Academy in 2022. An Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University (ANU), Isabel was elected to the Academy in 1979. She is widely regarded as the “Mother of Australian Archaeology.” Isabel was appointed as the first lecturer […]

An Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, Marguerite was elected to the Academy in 2022. A cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, she specialised in sexuality and gender, particularly in the poetry of Sappho, Catullus, and Ovid, as well as magical traditions in Greece, Rome, and the Near East. Marguerite

A Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum where she worked from 1989, Val was elected to the Academy in 2009. Her research focused on the Holocene period subsistence patterns, resource use and stone tool technology of Aboriginal peoples, particularly in south-eastern Australia. These interests, as well as human responses to climate change and the

Remembering David Malouf David Malouf, award-winning writer, librettist, public intellectual, winner of multiple prizes, and member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities has died aged 92. I first knew David Malouf when he became a lecturer at Sydney University in 1968. I was in my MA year when he started and my first impression

In memory of Andrew Pawley Eight years before he died, Andrew Pawley’s autobiographical essay, ‘Memoirs of an anthropological linguist’, was published in Te Reo, the journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand.[1] Rarely has the subject of an obituary helped its writer as much as Andy has helped me. The essay is a delightful

The journalist, editor and historian was born Mary Patricia Ryan on 30 July 1926 in Alphington, a suburb of Melbourne, in the house built by her father John Laurence Ryan, a teacher. Patricia’s mother Annie Teresa, née McSweeney, a bookbinder, had an aversion to hospitals, with two younger brothers also born at home. From 1932

Anne was elected to the Academy in 2010 for her research into the relationship between Chinese oral performance traditions and print culture in the late imperial era. Known internationally, her research interests spanned gender in performance, vernacular fiction, print culture, and Intangible Cultural Heritage. Anne was recognised for her sustained advocacy of Asian Studies with

Takamitsu was elected to the Academy as a Fellow in 1984 as a leader in Biblical Studies with a mastery of Greek, Hebrew (classical and modern), Aramaic, Syriac and Ethiopic. He became a Corresponding Fellow after moving to Leiden University, The Netherlands in 1991 to take the chair of Hebrew Language and Literature, Israelite Antiquities,

John was elected to the Academy in 1994 as a leading international authority on numismatics. He was well known for his work on ancient Greek coinage, and especially that of the Macedonians. John was also well regarded for his research on Byzantine history and worked extensively with archival material of the 15th and 16th centuries

Francis (“Frank”) Moloney was raised in an Irish Catholic working-class family in the inner west Melbourne suburb of Moonee Ponds. He excelled academically in his school days at St Bernard’s Christian Brothers College, Essendon, and also at sport, especially cricket. He played in the third grade of the Victorian District Cricket Association as schoolboy and

Anthony (Tony) Hearle Johns was born into a family descended from English forebears on his mother’s side and Hungarian on his father’s. He enjoyed explaining that his paternal ancestor, Janos Naszinsky, who migrated to England in the 1880s, expressed his respect for his new land by changing his name to John Johns. Tony’s father married