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ISSN 1039-3498 | no. 53| October 2001
Harold
White Fellowships for 2002
Dr Keiko Tamurato
undertake a critical study of the Harold Williams Collection
Each year the National Library of Australia Council awards Harold White
Fellowships to distinguished scholars, writers and researchers. Named in
honour of Sir Harold White CBE, the first National Librarian, the
Fellowships aim to support scholarly and literary use of the Librarys
collections and to promote the Library as a centre for research and
scholarship.
Fellowships are awarded to enable established scholars and writers to
conduct research based at the Library for periods of three to six months.
This year the Library received 46 applications for the Harold White
Fellowships for 2002. The applicants selected as Harold White Fellows are:
Fellows
- Dr Penny EdwardsDr Edwards has a PhD in History from Monash
University. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for
Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. Dr Edwards
research topic is: The power of culture: Temples of memory and the
politics of nostalgia in British Burma and contemporary Myanmar.
- Dr Christa KnellwolfDr Knellwolf has a PhD in English Literary
History from Cardiff University. She is currently a Visiting Fellow in
the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. Dr
Knellwolf will be researching The travelling imagination: A comparison
of imaginary with real journeys of exploration.
- Dr Keiko TamuraDr Tamura has a PhD in Anthropology from the
Australian National University. She is a Senior Research Officer at the
Australian War Memorial working on the Australia-Japan Research Project.
Dr Tamura will be undertaking a critical study of the Harold S. Williams
Collection.
Honorary Fellows
- Dr Jenny Hocking has a PhD from the University of Sydney and is an
Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow. She will
be undertaking research for a full-length political biography of the
Australian author Frank Hardy.
- Dr Martin Thomas has a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of
Technology, Sydney and is an ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
UTS. Dr Thomas will research cross-cultural encounter and the legacy of
the anthropologist R.H. Mathews, 18411918.
- Dr David Lee has a PhD in History from the Australian National
University and is the Director, Historical Documents Project at the
Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Canberra. He proposes to
conduct research for a biography of Stanley Melbourne Bruce.
The Library will also award a special additional fellowship to Dr Kerry
White an independent scholar, writer and reviewer and the author of the
major bibliography of contemporary Australian childrens literature.
The special fellowship will enable Dr White to complete the bibliography
to the end of 2000.
Further information on the Harold White Fellowships may be obtained from
the National Librarys web site www.nla.gov.au/collect/fellows.html.
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