Research Grants within the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry

SOPHI is a leading centre for research in the Humanities in Australia and our staff regularly receive highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) grants and fellowships. We attract a considerable number of ARC funded postdoctoral fellows who are keen to work with our continuing staff, and we are home to over 250 PhD students. Here are just a few of the current ARC funded research projects currently underway in SOPHI (check our staff research pages to learn more).

ARC Discovery Projects

2008
Name	Dept	Title	Duration (years)
Prof Warwick Anderson	History	Reproductive frontiers: the 20th century sciences of human hybridity	3
A/Prof Alison Betts; Prof V NYagodin; Dr Fiona Kidd	Archaeology	A study of a newly discovered corpus of early Central Asian wall paintings	4
Dr Melissa Carter	Archaeology	With or without pots: investigating the archaeology of human settlement on Santa Isobel, western Solomon Islands	4
Dr Emma Christopher; Dr M S Delofski; Prof P E Lovejoy	History	Sierra Leone and Australia: a case of the vanishing twin	3
Prof Mark Colyvan	Philosophy	Ethics and formal theories of decision	3
Dr Nicholas Eckstein	History	The anatomy and physiology of Renaissance Florence: the dynamics of social change in the 15th century	3
Dr Damien Evans	Archaeology	Hydraulic systems and state development in early Cambodia: mapping the engineered landscapes of the Khmer using remote sensing	3
Prof Paul Griffiths; Dr Karola Stotz	Philosophy	Postgenomic perspectives on human nature	5
Prof Duncan Ivison	Philosophy	The uneasy alliance between democracy and justice	4
Prof Huw Price; Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi; Dr M A Schlosshauer	Philosophy	Time-asymmetry and the Bohmian view of the quantum world	3
Dr Stephen Robertson	History	Private eyes and ears: covert surveillance in American life, 1865-1941	3
Dr Nicholas J J Smith	Philosophy	A computational solution to the problem of reference	3

2007
Name	Dept	Title	Duration (years)
A/Pro Alison Betts; Dr Peter Jia; Dr X Wu; Prof J P Mallory	Archaeology	East meets West: an archaeological study of early contact between China and Eurasia	4
Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice	History	Understanding the concept and meaning of freedom in Western history	4
Dr Chris Hilliard	History	Complex words; literary judgments in the British Commonwealth, 1920-1970	3
Dr Margaret Poulos	History	A new history of 1968: feminism and student revolt in the Colonel’s Greece (1967-1974)	4
Prof Cassandra Pybus	History	Recovered lives as windows on the Anglo Colonial War, 1750-1850	5

2006
Name	Dept	Title	Duration (years)
Prof Robert Aldrich	History	Province, nation, empire: France, 1871-1940	3
Dr Saliha Belmessous	History	Assimilation and empire	3
Dr David Braddon-Mitchel; Dr Adina Roskies; Dr Uriah Kriegel; Dr Caroline West	Philosophy	Personal identity, consciousness and agency	3
Dr Kate da Costa	Archaeology	Drawing the line: the archaeology of Roman provincial borders in Late Antique Palaestina and Arabia (AD 250-650)	4
Prof Moira Gatens	Philosophy	George Eliot: literature as experimental philosophy	5
Prof Catharine Lumby; Prof Elspeth Probyn; Dr J A O’Dea; Dr K M Albury	Gender and Cultural Studies	The well-rounded person: the role of sport in shaping physical, emotional an social development	5
Mr Richard White	History	A cultural history of Australian motor travel overseas	3
Prof Shane White	History	The making of black Manhattan	5

2005
Name	Dept	Title	Duration (years)
Dr Peter Anstey; Dr S A Harris	Philosophy	John Locke, botany and natural kinds	3
Dr Alison Bashford	History	World Health: the intellectual history of a twentieth century idea	3
Dr Alison Betts; Prof V N Yagodin	Archaeology	Chorasmian temples: an archaeological study of early Zoroastrianism and its precursors in Central Asia	3
Dr Nicholas Eckstein	History	Renaissance Florence, 1400-1500	2
Dr Judith Field	Archaeology	First Australians, last megafauna? Modern approaches to a prehistoric puzzle	5
Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice	History	State formation and European expansion	2
Prof Roland Fletcher; Dr Dan Penny; A/Prof M F Barbetti; Dr C Pottier	Archaeology	Urban infrastructure, inertia and ecology: the growth and decline of Angkor, Cambodia (9th to 16th century AD)	5
Dr Julia Horne; Prof G E Sherington	History	The public university in Australasia (1850-1918)	3
Dr Bob Hudson	Archaeology	Early settlements in upper Burma (Myanmar): an experiment in urban living	3
Prof Huw Price; Prof Jenann Ismael & Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi	Philosophy	Time and perspective in the quantum world	5
Prof Elspeth Probyn; Dr J A O’Dea	Gender and Cultural Studies	Youth cultures of eating: a cultural analysis of youth obesity, gender, class, ethnicity and generation	3
Dr Fiona Probyn	Gender and Cultural Studies	Whiteness: a genealogical study	3
Prof Paul Redding	Philosophy	Idealism and the objectivity of norms and values: a neglected path from the 18th century	3
Dr Penny Russell	History	A history of manners: savagery and civility in colonial Australia	3
Prof Glenda Sluga	History	Nation, race, rights and the New World Order, 1945-1966	3
Prof Peter Wilson & Prof Eric Csapo	Classics and Ancient History	Accounting for the Ancient Theatre: a new social and economic history of Classical Greek	5

ARC Linkage Projects

2007
Name	Dept	Title	Duration (years)
Dr Ian Johnson; Dr Stephen Robertson.	Archaeology; History	Rethinking timelines: a new methodology for describing and communicating history	5
A/Prof Catherine Lumby; Prof Elspeth Probyn; Dr Kath Albury; Dr Clifton Evers	UNSW; Gender and Cultural Studies; UNSW; UNSW	Peer based mentoring in sport: strategies for best practice	4

2005
Name	Dept	Title	Duration (years)
Dr Fiona Cameron; Prof E A Edmonds; Prof Stephen Garton; Mr K S Sumption	History	Reconceptualising heritage collections: multidisciplinary approaches to museum collections and documentation	3
Prof Stephen Garton; Dr P Ashton; Dr S H Fitzgerald; Dr Ian Johnson; Mr RH Coleman	History; Archaeology	The Dictionary of Sydney: delivering the city’s digital multimedia resources to the wider community	6

ARC Federation Fellows*

2007
Name	Dept	Title	Duration (years)
Prof Huw Price	Philosophy	A practical theory of factual information: fundamentals and applications in philosophy and physics	5

* Prof Iain McCalman, Deptartment of History, was a Federation Fellow;
the fellowship expired end 2007.