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Awards and Achievements

Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton, & Graham White were awarded the American Historical Association's inaugural Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History, for Digital Harlem, their site on everyday life in the neighborhood in the 1920s.

Shane White, Stephen Garton, & Stephen Robertson were awarded a 2010 University of Sydney Bridging Support Grant for their project Year of the Riot: Harlem, 1935.

Chris Hilliard was awarded a 2009 Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award (Design and Practice).

Emma Christopher, James Curran, Chris Hilliard, Martin Thomas, and Richard White were awarded Australian Research Council Grants to commence in 2010, for the following projects:

• Emma Christopher, Slavery, freedom and colonial development: Robert Bostock and his legacy (Australian Research Fellowship, 2010-14)
• James Curran, Australian/American relations in the era of the new nationalism (Discovery Grant, 2010-12)
• Chris Hilliard, The politics of reading: Citizenship, law, and literacy in England, 1867-1960 (QEII Fellowship, 2010-14)
• Martin Thomas, Intercultural inquiry in a trans-national context: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land (Discovery Grant, 2010-14) (with A/Prof LM Barwick; Prof AJ Marett)
• Richard White, Touring the past: tourism and history in Australia 1850-2010, (Discovery Grant, 2010-12)

Warwick Anderson won the 2009 General History Prize in the NSW Premier's History Awards, for The Collectors of Lost Souls: turning Kuru scientists into whitemen (Johns Hopkins University Press). All four books shortlisted for the General History Prize were by members of the Department of History. The others were:

• Clare Corbould, Becoming African Americans: Black public life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Harvard University Press)
• Judith Keene, Treason on the Airwaves: three Allied broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War Two (Praeger Publishers)
• Iain McCalman, Darwin's Armada: how four voyagers to Australasia won the battle for evolution and changed the world (Penguin)

Dirk Moses and his collaborators have won a 2009 H-Soz-u-Kult Prize, awarded by German speaking historians and historians of Germany, for the collection Empire, Colony, Genocide (Berghahn). Dirk was editor, and the volume included chapters from Ann Curthoys, Andrew Fitzmaurice, Bianca Tovias and John Docker.

Isobelle Barrett Meyering has won the Max Kelly Medal 2009 for her essay 'Abolitionism, settler violence and the case against corporal punishment: a reassessment of Sir William Molesworth's contribution to the transportation debate' (a chapter from her Honours thesis). The Max Kelly Medal plus a prize of $500 is awarded annually to a ‘beginning’ historian for a work of excellence in any aspect of Australian history. The winning essay will be published in History Australia. Among the 'highly commended' entrants was another University of Sydney student, Christopher Beshara, for an essay called 'Tuckiar v The King: Cross-Cultural Justice in a Kangaroo Court’.

Martin Thomas has been awarded an ARC Future Fellowship, the new research scheme that provides four years of support for mid-career researchers, for his project, Expedition to Arnhem Land: Intercultural inquiry in a trans-national context.

Shane White has been appointed the Challis Professor of History. The Challis Chair is one of nine created as a result of a bequest from John Henry Challis in 1880, and is held by the senior Professor in the History Department.

Agnieszka Sobocinska, a postgraduate student in the department, won the 2008 John Barrett Award for Australian Studies for the best article by a postgraduate student published in the Journal of Australian Studies. The article, 'Australian fellow-travellers to China: devotion and deceit in the People’s Republic,' appeared in vol. 32, no. 3, 2008.

The following students have been awarded PhDs in 2009:

• Kit Candlin, Making empires work : transnational fluidity and the politics of advantage in the Atlantic world 1790-1820
• Rhiannon M. Davis, 'Through Thompson Eyes' : a global analysis of advertising in the J. Walter Thompson Agency, 1928-1945
• Jodi Frawley, Botanical knowledges, settling Australia, Sydney Botanic Gardens 1896-1924
• Sandra Kostner, Greek and Italian migration to Australia and Germany and the educational and occupational situation of the second generation : a comparative analysis
• Rory O'Malley, Mateship and money-making : shearing in twentieth century Australia

Jodi Frawley, a postgraduate student in the department, is the joint winner of the 2009 competition for the National Museum of Australia Student Prize for Environmental History for her essay, 'Trans/Nationalising Wattle from the Sydney Botanic Gardens'.

Frances Clarke was awarded a Research Grant for 2009 by the United States Studies Centre, for her project, "Dear Father Abraham: Defining the rights and obligations of citizenship in Civil War America".

Stephen Robertson was awarded a 2008 Faculty of Arts Excellence in Teaching Award (Design and practice).

Warwick Anderson has won the Social Sciences award at the 2008 Philippines National Book Awards, for his Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines, published in 2007 by Ateneo de Manila University Press.

Michael McDonnell has won the General History Prize in the 2008 NSW Premier's History Awards, for his book, The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia, published in 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press.

Warwick Anderson, Alison Bashford, Michael McDonnell, Dirk Moses, Cassandra Pybus, Peter Read and Glenda Sluga were awarded Australian Research Council Grants to commence in 2009, for the following projects:

• Warwick Anderson (and Dr RL Jones), Anatomies of Empire: Race, Evolution and Scientific Networks in the Twentieth-Century British World [Discovery Grant]
• Alison Bashford (and Dr J McAdam and Dr SS Amrith), Immigration Restriction and the Racial State, c. 1880 to the present [Discovery Grant]
• Michael McDonnell, Charles Langlade, the Anishinaabeg, and the making and unmaking of the Atlantic World [Discovery Grant]
• Dirk Moses, Genocide: Critical History of an Idea [Discovery Grant]
• Cassandra Pybus (and Prof RL Isaac; Prof I Berlin; Prof OV Burton; and Prof J Sidbury), Interrogating the Book of Negroes: explorations of slavery and freedom in the Atlantic world in the era of the American Revolution [Discovery Grant]
• Peter Read, A history of Aboriginal Sydney since 1788 [Professorial Fellowship]
• Glenda Sluga, The International History of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism, 1814-1822 [Discovery Grant]

Dirk Moses has won the H-Soz-u-Kult Prize in modern history for his German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past, published in 2007. This award is voted by German historians, and books considered for the award cover all fields of modern history.

In 2008 Penny Russell and Richard White assumed the editorship of History Australia, the official journal of the Australian Historical Association. The journal aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia and New Zealand. It publishes refereed articles that draw on new historical research or address ways of teaching, exhibiting or applying historical knowledge. Contributions are invited on all geographical regions, not just Australasian; local, national, international, imperial and colonial histories; and research using textual, oral and visual sources.

A collection of scholars from the University of Sydney – and chiefly from the Department of History – has been awarded a prestigious John E. Sawyer Seminar Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant is to be used for a cross-disciplinary project during 2009-10 on “The Antipodean Laboratory: Humanity, Sovereignty, and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands, 1700-2009.” The University of Sydney is the first and thus far only Australian recipient of this award. Further Information

Naomi Hart has been awarded the 2008 Norman Harper Prize for the best undergraduate essay in American Studies by the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. Her essay, "'Exercising 'those faculties which they desire in their offspring': Enlisting parents in the crusade against vice," will be published in the July 2008 issue of the Australasian Journal of American Studies. This is the fourth consecutive year that a University of Sydney student has won this prize.

Michael McDonnell and Shane White have been appointed to the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program. Chosen by the president of the organization, this appointment recognizes "outstanding speakers who have made major contributions to the study of American history." Lecturers give at least one lecture a year and agree to designate their fees as donations to the organization.

Congratulations to outstanding Postgraduate Researchers:

• Briony Neilson, awarded the Ian Cameron Travelling Scholarship, for research in Paris.
• Alecia Simmonds, awarded the Nation Empire Globe Travelling Scholarship, for research in the UK, and a Tempe Mann Award from the Australian Federation of University Women - NSW.
• Jamie Miller, awarded the Pioneer Prize for best honours thesis in Australian History, proceeding to a PhD candidature in History at University of Sydney.

Cam MacKellar, a postgraduate student in the department, was awarded a 2007 Faculty of Arts Tutoring Excellence Award.

David Smith, a recent graduate of the department, has won the 2007 Jean Monnet Thesis Prize, awarded by the Contemporary Europe Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, for his PhD thesis, "Ecology and non-violence across the species barrier?: the German Greens and the politics of animal protection."

Tony Moore, a postgraduate student in the department, won the 2007 NSW History Fellowship, a $20,000 award which enables a NSW historian to research an aspect of the state’s history, to complete the project "Death or Liberty: Rebels in Exile," the first narrative and analytical history of political prisoners exiled as convicts to Australia.

Warwick Anderson, Emma Christopher, Nick Eckstein, and Stephen Robertson were awarded Australian Research Council Grants to commence in 2008, for the following projects:

• Warwick Anderson, Reproductive Frontiers: The Twentieth-Century Sciences of Human Hybridity [Discovery Grant]
• Emma Christopher, Sierra Leone and Australia: a case of the vanishing twin [Discovery Grant] (with Dr MS Delofski and Prof PE Lovejoy)
• Nick Eckstein, The Anatomy and Physiology of Renaissance Florence: the Dynamics of Social Change in the Fifteenth Century [Discovery Grant]
• Stephen Robertson, Private Eyes and Ears: Covert Surveillance in American Life, 1865-1941 [Discovery Grant]

Warwick Anderson was awarded both a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Fellowship (US) for research into the history of the scientific investigation of race mixing.

Books by three staff members were shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards:

• Christopher Hilliard's To Exercise Our Talents: the Democratization of Writing in Britain and Jonathan Walker's Pistols! Treason! Murder! The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy were shortlisted for the General History Prize
• Cassandra Pybus' Black Founders: the Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers was shortlisted for the Australian History Prize

Shane White was invited to give the 13th Annual Bernard Bailyn Lecture, at La Trobe University, on August 8, 2007. Since 1995, the Bernard Bailyn Lecture has been presented annually by La Trobe University to mark the University’s expertise in North American studies, and to provide an opportunity for a distinguished scholar in a relevant discipline to visit La Trobe University.

Robert Aldrich was awarded a fellowship at the Columbia University Institute for Scholars in Paris, where he will spend the first half of 2008.

Dirk Moses was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for 2008, which will allow him to spend the entire year doing research in Germany.

Iain McCalman was awarded an Order of Australia, Officer (AO), "For service to history and to the humanities as a teacher, researcher and author, and through administrative, advocacy and advisory roles in academic and public sector organisations."

Michael McDonnell's article, "Class War? Class Struggles during the American Revolution in Virginia," was awarded the 2006 Lester Cappon Prize for the best article published in the William and Mary Quarterly, the leading journal of early American history, and selected by the Organization of American Historians to be included in The Best American History Essays 2008, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Clare Corbould was awarded a Writing Fellowship for semester 2, 2007, by the University of Sydney Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (RIHSS), to complete her book, Becoming African Americans, 1919-1939, which will be published by Harvard University Press in 2008.

Chris Hilliard has won the Max Crawford Medal for 2006. The Australian Academy of the Humanities awards the Crawford Medal every two years to an outstanding early career researcher in the humanities. This is the third time in as many awards that the medal has gone to a member of the Department of History: Dr Kirsten McKenzie won the medal in 2004; Associate Professor Glenda Sluga won in 2002.

Cindy McCreery, Michael McDonnell, and Kirsten McKenzie were awarded University of Sydney Research and Development Grants for 2007, for the following topics:

• Cindy McCreery, English Humour and British Civility: Constructing and Contesting Identity in the British Empire, 1867-70
• Michael McDonnell, Between Borders: Refugees, Empires, and Nations
• Kirsten McKenzie, Social status and political power at the Cape of Good Hope: the cross-colonial connections of William Edwards/Alexander Lockaye

Andrew Fitzmaurice, Chris Hilliard, Iain McCalman, Margaret Poulos, and Cassandra Pybus were awarded Australian Research Council Grants to commence in 2007, for the following projects:

• Andrew Fitzmaurice, Understanding the concept and meaning of freedom in Western history [Discovery Grant]
• Chris Hilliard, Complex Words: Literary Judgments in the British Commonwealth, 1920-1970 [Discovery Grant]
• Iain McCalman, Scientific voyages in the Antipodes: Thomas Huxley, John McGillivray and the Darwinian Revolution [Discovery Grant]
• Margaret Poulos, A New History of 1968: Feminism and Student Revolt in the Colonels' Greece (1967-1974) [Postdoctoral Fellowship]
• Cassandra Pybus, Recovered Lives as Windows on the Anglo Colonial World, 1750-1850 [Professorial Fellowship]

Stephen Robertson was awarded a 2006 Carrick Institute Australian Award for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Publications

	Ann Curthoys & Ann McGrath, How to write history that people want to read (UNSW Press, 2009) Book launch: November 2, Gleebooks
	Kirsten McKenzie, A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty (University of New South Wales Press, 2009)
	Clare Corbould, Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 (Harvard University Press, 2009)
	Iain McCalman, Darwin's Armada: How four voyagers to Australasia won the battle for evolution and changed the world (Penguin, Australia; Norton, USA; Simon and Schuster, UK; 2009)
	Margaret Poulos, Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity (Columbia University Press, 2009)
	Judith Keene, Treason on the Airwaves: Three Allied Broadcasters on Axis Radio during World War II (Praeger, 2009)
	Alison Bashford and Carolyn Strange, Griffith Taylor: Visionary, Environmentalist, Explorer (National Library of Australia, 2008)
	A. Dirk Moses, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
	Michael McDonnell, The Politics of War: Race, Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia (Omohundro Institute for Early American Studies/University of North Carolina Press, 2007)
	Robert Aldrich (editor), Gay Life and Culture: A World History (Thames and Hudson, 2007) Launched at Ariel Booksellers, 42 Oxford St, Paddington, February 21, 2007
	Jonathan Walker, Pistols! Treason! Murder!  The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy (Melbourne University Press, 2007) Launched at the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, February 20, 2007
	Glenda Sluga, The Nation, Psychology and international Politics, 1870-1919 (Palgrave, 2006)
	Warwick Anderson, Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines. Durham NC: Duke University Press; 2006; and Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press; 2007.
	Warwick Anderson, The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia, first published 2002, reissued in 2006 by Duke University Press
	Lynette Olson, The Early Middle Ages: The Birth of Europe (Palgrave, 2006)
	Chris Hilliard, The Bookmen's Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand 1920-1950 (Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006)
	Chris Hilliard, To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006). Launched at the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, May 24, 2006
	Julia Horne, The Pursuit of Wonder: How Australia's landscape was explored, nature discovered and tourism unleashed (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2005)
	Robert Aldrich, Vestiges of Colonial Empire in France:  Monuments, Museums and Colonial Memories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) Launched at the European Studies Postgraduate Conference 2005
	Stephen Robertson, Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2005) Launched at Gleebooks, May 31, 2005
	Richard Waterhouse, The Vision Splendid: A Social and Cultural History of Rural Australia (Curtin University Press, 2005) Launched at Gleebooks, May 26, 2005
	Richard White (with Sarah-Jane Ballard, Ingrid Bown, Meredith Lake, Patricia Leehy, Lila Oldmeadow), On Holidays: A History of Getting Away in Australia (Pluto, 2005) Launched at Gleebooks, May 16, 2005
	Shane White and Graham White, The Sounds of Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons and Speech (Beacon, 2005)

Journals

In 2008 Penny Russell and Richard White assumed the editorship of History Australia, the official journal of the Australian Historical Association. The journal aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia and New Zealand. It publishes refereed articles that draw on new historical research or address ways of teaching, exhibiting or applying historical knowledge. Contributions are invited on all geographical regions, not just Australasian; local, national, international, imperial and colonial histories; and research using textual, oral and visual sources.

History Australia is published by Monash University ePress, in both print and digital versions. Both versions include a generous number of illustrations, appearing in colour online. The digital version can also carry sound bites and video clips and we encourage contributors to bear these capabilities in mind. Where materials cited in History Australia such as journal articles are already available online, the full text may be accessible directly from the citation in History Australia; articles published in History Australia will be similarly available from the text of other online journals.