Fellows

Democratic pluralities & the future of Australia Professor Kate Fullagar FAHA FRHistS: I thought that we might begin with a discussion of periodisation.  You’ve described your era of main focus to be 1780 to 1850, also known as early colonial Australian history. You’ve noted a decline of interest in this area over the past two […]

In the opening paragraph of her autobiography, My Accidental Career, acclaimed biographer and academic, Brenda Niall AO FAHA describes a filling out an application for a passport. ‘For most of my friends the Occupation slot would have been easy to fill. ‘Home Duties’ was what women did: the home was where we all belonged, and

‘It was books before everything else,’ Colin Steele AM FAHA says as he overlooks the Chifley Library at the Australian National University. The library houses notable collections of social sciences and humanities research—a collection Colin built meticulously during his time as University Librarian. ‘And it’s all still about books. Everything I do is because of

‘Why are you here?’ It was one of the first questions space archaeologist, Associate Professor Alice Gorman FAHA FSA, remembers being asked at a space industry conference in Canberra back in 2003. Alice can still recall the mix of surprise and confusion her paper received. ‘People asked me “why are you here?” even as I

  Officer of the Order of Australia recipients Dr Lindy Lee AO FAHA One of Australia’s most prominent and celebrated artists, Dr Lindy Lee is a painter and sculptor based in Arakwal Country in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales and in Turrubul Country in Brisbane, Queensland. Lee’s creative practice draws on her Chinese-Australian

A Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (AAH) since 1983, Professor Bellwood describes the award as an absolute career highlight. He is the first Australian to have won the International Cosmos Prize which was first awarded in 1993. He was selected from 171 nominees across 31 countries, a larger field this year given