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MEDIA RELEASE - Monday, 16 December 2002
2003 Harold White Fellowships announced
The National Library has announced the recipients of the 2003 Harold White Fellowships. The recipients, two from Australia and two from overseas, will spend up to four months carrying out research in the Library.
"The primary benefit of the Fellowships is to give scholars and writers the opportunity to focus on their topic of research and to take advantage of the wealth of the Library's collections that are available in their field. This specialised research also enables the Librarys collections to become more widely appreciated by the broader community, said the Librarys Director-General Jan Fullerton.
The Fellowships are named in honour of the first National Librarian Sir Harold White (1905-1992). Research can be in any discipline or area in which the Library has strong collections.
Carl Bridge taught history at the University of New England before becoming Head of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at London University in 1997. He has written extensively on diplomatic, military and political history and was also the author of A Trunk full of Books: A History of the State Library of South Australia and its Forerunners (1986). As a Harold White Fellow, he will be returning to his early interest in the career of the Australian politician and diplomat Lord Casey.
Ryan Dunch was an undergraduate at the Australian National University, going on to postgraduate studies in North America. He is now an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta at Edmonton. He has a strong interest in Christianity in China and is the author of Fuzhou Protestants and the Making of a Modern China (2001). As a Harold White Fellow, Dr Dunch will focus on Protestant missionary writings published between 1807 and 1911.
Angus Trumble, a freelance researcher and formerly the Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia, has had a long interest in Anglo-Australian relations in the nineteenth century. He recently edited Love and Death: Art in the Age of Queen Victoria (2001). Mr Trumble will now focus on episodes that illustrate aspects of the social and cultural history of Britain and its colonies, ranging from Pre-Raphaelite artists and their fascination with wombats to the art collection that accompanied Lord Brassey when he became Governor of Victoria in 1895.
Gary Catalano was awarded a Harold White Fellowship
prior to his untimely death. His fellowship was awarded to produce a biography
of the poet, grazier, fighter pilot and Rugby Union international, David
Campbell (19151979).
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