The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Emeritus Professor Elspeth Probyn FAHA.
Our community
Learn more about our Fellows (past and present), award and grant recipients, and more. Visit our Newsroom to explore stories about our impact, community and research.
Do you know someone who speaks Mian? Arrernte? What about luški, the Vela Luka dialect of Croatian? Professor Marija Tabain FAHA knows language matters to people. As one of the world’s leading linguists, she’s working to document these languages for future generations.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Emeritus Professor Jeffrey Siegel FAHA.
Foundation Fellow, Francis J West, was an internationally renowned historian of Norman rule in England, and later, of Pacific colonial regimes, as well as one of the early formative figures of Deakin University and the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Professor Peter Stanley FAHA acknowledges his significant contribution to humanities scholarship, with support from Francis’s family, colleagues and friends. Read a PDF version here.
Elected to the Academy in 2024, Professor Melissa Crouch FAHA is a socio-legal scholar of Indonesia and Myanmar/Burma whose work has played an important role in integrating the socio-legal study of Southeast Asia into the broader Humanities endeavour. She is an international leader in comparative constitutional studies based at UNSW.
Associate Professor Patrick Jory FAHA is recognised internationally as a leading cultural and intellectual historian of Southeast Asia — who became interested in Thai society and history while learning the language as a rugby coach in his early twenties.
Humans have always sought to augment and extend the capabilities of the body with technology. Award-winning performance artist Stelarc FAHA pushes the limits of what is understood, possible and, at times, uncomfortable to challenge us to re-think the way our philosophies are tied to our physiologies.
Elected in 2024, Charles Schencking FAHA is a Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on why people donate to foreign countries after natural disasters — and what they might expect in return.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Emeritus Professor Keith Campbell FAHA. Elected to the Academy in 1977, Keith was a pioneer in Australian philosophy. He was a leading figure in metaphysics, defending, inter alia, materialism and trope theory. His obituary has been prepared by his daughter Helen Campbell with assistance from Professor John Heil FAHA. Download the PDF version here.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Professor Emerita Margaret Manion AO FAHA.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities has only just heard the sad news on the death of Emeritus Professor Donald Denoon FAHA.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Emeritus Professor John Rickard FAHA.