Harold White Fellowships

1984-2004

2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989-1984.


2004

Rosemary Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in English at the Australian National University. She is writing a biography of Walter Head (1861-1939), who later adopted the name Walter Woods, and who was a poet, short story writer, journalist and Member of the Tasmanian Parliament. In 1892-93 Woods edited the journal New Australia and was closely associated with William Lane and others who established the New Australia settlement in Paraguay. Dr Campbell will be looking at records of the settlement and the correspondence of Mary Gilmore, as well as the Library's holdings of the various newspapers that Woods edited.

Albrecht Dumling will be studying musicians and composers who fled from Germany and Austria between 1933 and 1945 and who settled in Australia. They included well-known composers such as George Dreyfus, Felix Werder, Henry Krips and Werner Baer. He will use the Library's music and manuscript collections in documenting both their experiences as refugees and their contribution to the musical life of Australia. Dr Dumling is attached to the Centre for Studies in anti-Semitism at the Technical University in Berlin.

Margot Harker, an independent scholar living in Canberra, will be undertaking research on Australians and their weddings from 1788 to the present. She is particularly interested in the period since 1970, including such topics as Australian responses to the royal weddings of 1981 and 1986, the emergence of aggressive wedding service providers, and the apparent failure of feminism to influence phenomena such as the princess bride and the marginalised groom. Dr Harker will draw on a range of sources from popular magazines to music and photographs.

Michael McClellan is an American musicologist who has taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for several years. He has a strong interest in the development of French opera. He will focus his research on the interaction of theatre and government during the French Revolution, especially a series of events between 1791 and 1799 relating to the freedom or regulation of theatres. Professor McClellan will be able to make use of the Library's very large collection of pamphlets and newspapers of the period, as well as formed collections of 18th century French literature, drama and music.

Penny Olsen will be examining the Mathews Collection and other ornithological collections in the Library for references to the paradise parrot, the only mainland bird species to have become extinct since the European colonization of Australia. Described by John Gould as the 'Beautiful Parrakeet', the paradise parrot was once quite common in the woodlands of southern Queensland and northern New South Wales, but has not been sighted since the 1920s. Dr Olsen, who lives in Canberra, has written several books on Australian birds of prey, as well as numerous chapters and research papers on biological subjects.

2003

Carl Bridge, Director of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, University of London
A scholarly edition of R.G. Casey's Washington diaries, 1940-42

Ryan Dunch , Associate Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Reading missionary modernity in late Quing China

Keith McKenry, freelance researcher, Canberra
The life and work of John Meredith and his role in the Australian folk revival

Angus Trumble, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Rossetti's wombat; Anglo-Australian cultural relations in the second half of the nineteenth century

Gary Catalano, was also awarded a 2003 Fellowship, but died before he was able to take up the Fellowship

2002

Dr Penny Edwards, Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
The power of culture: temples of memory and the politics of nostalgia in British Burma and contemporary Myanmar

Dr Jennifer Hocking, Associate Professor
National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
Frank Hardy: a political life

Dr Christa Knellwolf, Honorary Research Fellow
Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
The travelling imagination: a comparison of imaginary with real journeys of exploration

Dr Keiko Tamura, Freelance researcher
Canberra
Engagement of East and West: a critical study of the Harold Williams Collection

Dr Martin Thomas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
Surveying cross-cultural encounter: the legacy of R.H. Mathews, anthropologist

2001

Margaret Barbalet, Novelist
Canberra
Sources on Buddhism for a novel Paradise Hotel

Rhian Davies, Freelance musicologist and broadcaster
Cardiff, Wales
F.S. Kelly (1881-1916), musician and oarsman

Satyanshu Mukherjee, Retired criminologist
Canberra
A history of criminal justice policy in Australia since 1788

Benjamin Penny, Honorary Research Fellow
Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
Religion in contemporary China: the case of Falungong

Jane Roberts, Independent research scientist
Canberra
Australian river navigation charts, their historical and scientific values

Susan Woodburn, Special Collections Librarian
Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
Printing and publishing in Pacific Islands languages in Australia

2000

Professor Carole Carpenter, Associate Professor
Division of Humanities, York University, Toronto, Canada
Constructing and reconstructing identity: folklore in Australian children's literature in English

Dr Bridget Griffen-Foley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of History, University of Sydney
A study of the relationship between Australian media companies, their proprietors and politicians and political parties, 1945-75

Mr David Hansen, Senior Curator
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
John Glover and the colonial picturesque

Dr Doug Munro, Temporary Lecturer in History
University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
A biography of J.W. Davidson (1915-1973)

Dr Michael Symons, Freelance writer
Adelaide
A history of Australian dining out

1999

David Branagan, formerly Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Sydney University.
Biography of geologist Sir Edgeworth David (1858–1934).

Paula Byrne, an independent Canberra scholar.
Research on law and manners in colonial New South Wales.

Peter Edwards of Sydney University.
Biography of Sir Arthur Tange.

Sarah Lloyd of the Australian National University.
Poverty, charity and gender in Britain in the period 1700–1820.

Joan Rydon Professor of Political Science
La Trobe University from 1975 to 1989.
Study of the political career of Sir Archdale Parkhill.

1998

Geoffrey Bolton, Emeritus Professor of History
Edith Cowen University and Murdoch University, Perth, W.A.
Biography of Sir Edmund Barton

Margaret Harris, Professor of English Literature
University of Sydney
Unpublished writings of Christina Stead

Mr John Shortis, Freelance composer and musician, Bungendore, NSW
Sheet Dip: the National Library's Australian Sheet Music Collection

Dr David Tothill, Freelance historian, Pretoria
South Africa, Australia and the United Nations, 1945-61

John Warhurst, Professor of Political Science
Australian National University, Canberra
The First Green Decade: the Australian Conservation Foundation and Environmental Politics, 1963-73

1997

Graham Hair, Professor of Music
University of Glasgow
Don Banks, Australian composer

Dr Elizabeth Lawson, Senior Lecturer in English
University College of the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy
Birds and the Australian imagination

Dr David Lowe, Lecturer in History
Deakin University
Percy Spender: a biography

Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor of Anthropology
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Cannibal talk: the practice and discourse of anthropology and anthropophagy in Polynesia in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Dr Barry York, Independent historian, Canberra
Big Chief Little Wolf: folklore, folk heroes and professional wrestling in Australia

1996

Prof. Patricia Veronica Brady, Honorary Senior Research Fellow
Department of English, University of Western Australia
A biography of Judith Wright

Dr Peter John Cochrane
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sydney
Anglo-Australia: A Study of Herbert and Ivy Brookes
Dr Cochrane presented a public lecture on 23 July 1996 on this topic and an essay 'Herbert Brookes, British-Australian : a biographical sketch' is also available.

Ann Jackson-Nakano, Independent historian, Canberra
A history of the Ngunnawal, 1788-1938

Dr Vera Christine Mackie, Director
Women's Studies Programme, University of Melbourne
Gender, ethnicity and citizenship in contemporary Japan

Dr Christopher Tiffin, Senior Lecturer
Department of English, University of Queensland.
An edition of My Australian Girlhood by Rosa Praed

1995

Dr Maryanne Dever, Lecturer in Australian Studies
University of Hong Kong
'M. Barnard Eldershaw': the Literary Collaboration of Marjorie Barnard and Flora Eldershaw

Dr Peter Jackson, Executive Officer, National Thai Studies Centre
Australian National University
Karthoeys: a History of Thailand's Third Gender

Dr John Knott, Senior Lecturer in History
Australian National University
The Motor Car and Australian Society

1994

Ian Hancock, Reader in History
Australian National University
History of the Federal Liberal Party of Australia, 1944-1965

Ros Poignant, Freelance Anthropologist
Axel Poignant's Diary and Photographic Record of his stay in Nagalarramba, Arnhem Land, in 1952

Dr Michael Rosenthal, Senior Lecturer in Art History
University of Warwick, UK
Home and Away: The British and Australia, 1770-1840

1993

Professor Donald Harman Akenson, Professor of History
Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
The Irish Diaspora

Mary Patricia Clarke, Freelance Writer
A Biography of Rosa Praed (1851-1935)

Professor Hu Wenzhong, Director Australian Studies Centre
Beijing Foreign Studies University
Australia's Critical Reception of Patrick White: a Survey

Dr Charles Campbell MacKnight, Reader in History
Australian National University
Three Projects in Indonesian History: Purry's 'Memoirs', a History of Early Java and a La Galigo Translation

Ann Veronica Moyal, Freelance Historian
Science and Technology in Australia: a Cultural History

Dr Marc Serge Riviere, Senior Lecturer in Modern Languages
James Cook University of North Queensland
A Critical Edition of Voltaire's 'Age of Louis XIV'

Dr Nicholas Jeremy Thomas, Senior Research Fellow
Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, Australian National University
Australian Perceptions of South Pacific Islanders, 1860-1914

Dr Paul Turnbull, Senior Lecturer in History
James Cook University of North Queensland
The Procurement and Scientific Use of Aboriginal Remains, 1790-1990

1992

Dr Ian Michael Britain, Formerly Lecturer in History
University of Melbourne
Re-domesticating the Gothic in Eighteenth-Century England: Thomas Gray and his Influence

Professor John Philips Hardy, Professor of Humanities
Bond University
The World of Wit and Poetry: a Reading of Alexander Pope

Dr Andrew Leonard Hassam, Lecturer in English, Trinity College
Camarthen, UK
Narrating the Passage: Immigrants' Journals and the Voyage Out

Professor William Frederick Mandle, Professor of History
University of Canberra
The Oxford Movement (1833-1845) Considered as an Exercise in Propaganda and Communication

1991

Dr Stephen Gordon Alomes, Lecturer in Australian Studies
Deakin University
The Cultural Aspirations of Post-War Development in Australia, as Reflected in Planning for Community Development and a National Theatre

Dale Sara Dowse, Writer
Lisa Fitch: a Biography

Dr Eric Charles Fry, Formerly Reader in History
Australian National University
Australian Federal Politics, 1949-1972

Dr Paul Gillen, Senior Lecturer School of Humanities & Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
The Cultural and Political Philosophy of Jack Lindsay

Dr Drid Williams, Lecturer, Department of Music
University of Sydney
Human Danced Experiences: a Pilot Project on Australian Resources

1990

Dr Dennis James Haskell, Lecturer in English
University of Western Australia
A Critical Study of the Poetry of Kenneth Slessor

Roger William Milliss, Writer
Jane Franklin's Journey, 1839

Dr Anna Shnukal, Lecturer in Linguistics
University of Queensland
Pacific Islander Immigrants to Torres Strait: a Social History and Selected Bibliography

Julian David Keith Thomas, Postgraduate Scholar, Department of History
Australian National University
Frank Hurley: Colonial Photographer

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