2024 Fellows

Professor Marija Tabain FAHA is one of the world’s leading scholars in linguistic phonetics. She has made an outstanding contribution to the quantitative analysis of the phonetics and phonology, particularly within central Australian languages. Marija’s work has advanced our understanding of how research on “small languages” can elucidate the acoustic and articulatory constraints that underpin

Based on archival research and fieldwork using both Indonesian and Burmese language materials, Professor Melissa Crouch‘s research illuminates critical contemporary issues by addressing the impact of political and social factors on the functioning of law, both historically and in the current context. Her research has covered the ambiguous role of women judges, the relationship between

A cultural and intellectual historian of Thailand and mainland Southeast Asia more broadly, Associate Professor Patrick Jory FAHA has closely examined the internal dynamics of Thai thinking about modernity in the modern period. He challenges existing historiography by avoiding the traditional dichotomy between Thai tradition and Western modernity. His work focuses especially on puzzles surrounding

For over fifty years, Stelarc FAHA’s work has challenged and extended upon our understanding of what it means to be human, and how we understand our bodies by integrating technology, prosthetics and implants to augment and extend the human body. Stelarc has performed and exhibited in Japan, Korea, China, Europe, South America and the USA.

‘One of the reasons I love history is the power of perspective it provides,’ says Professor Charles Schencking FAHA. A Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong and previously a British Academy postdoctoral Fellow, Professor Schencking has held appointments at the University of Tokyo, Rikkyō University, the University of Kyoto, and Murdoch University.