Staff News

Congratulations to the staff whose grants were successful. These grants are for the application round for 2007, with funding commencing in 2008.

LINKAGE (Arts 4)

• SOPHI (2) - 2 apps submitted / 2 successful:
  100% success rate
  • Gaynor Macdonald (Anthropology); Annie Clarke (Archaeology)
  • Catherine Waldby (Sociology & Social Policy); A/Prof I Kerridge (Medicine); Prof L Skene [includes 1 APA(I)]

LINKAGE INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP (Arts 1)

• SOPHI (1)
  • Roland Fletcher (Archaeology); Dr A Traviglia; Ian Johnson (Archaeology); Damian Evans (Archaeology)

DISCOVERY INDIGENOUS (Arts 1)

• SOPHI (1)- 1 app submitted / 1 successful: 100% success rate
  • Vicki Grieves, Gaynor Macdonald (Anthropology)

DISCOVERY (Arts 21)

• SOPHI (12) - Archaeology (3), History (4), Philosophy (5): Total 12
  • Warwick Anderson (History/Medicine)
    
  • Alison Betts (Archaeology); Prof VN Yagodin; Fiona Kidd (Archaeology)
  • [includes 1 APD: Fiona Kidd]
  • Melissa Carter (Archaeology) [1 APD: Melissa Carter]
  • Emma Christopher (History); Dr MS Delofski; Prof PE Lovejoy
  • Mark Colyvan (Philosophy)
  • Nick Eckstein (History)
  • Damian Evans (Archaeology) [1 APD: Damian Evans]
  • Paul Griffiths (Philosophy); Karola Stotz (Philosophy) [I ARF: Karola Stotz]
  • Duncan Ivison (Philosophy)
    
  • Huw Price (Philosophy); Guido Bacciagaluppi (Philosophy); Dr MA Schlosshauer
    
  • Stephen Robertson (History)
    
  • Nick Smith (Philosophy)
  • In conjunction with other universities:
    
    • Kane Race (Cultural Studies) UNSW

  2007 NSW Permier's History Awards

   
  

  Books by three staff members from the Department of History were shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier's History Awards!
  
  Congratulations to:
  Christopher Hilliard
  Cassandra Pybus and
  Jonathan Walker.
  
  The publications were:

  • Christopher Hilliard's To Exercise Our Talents: the Democratization of Writing in Britain
  • 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 (shortlisted for the Australian History Prize)

  Fellowships and Awards

   
  • 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."
  • Robert Aldrich (History) was awarded a fellowship at the Columbia University Institute for Scholars in Paris, where he will spend the first half of 2008.
  • Dirk Moses (History) was awarded a Humboldt Fellowship for 2008, which will allow him to spend the entire year doing research in Germany.