Harold White Fellowship (1986 to 2014)
Established by the Council of the National Library of Australia in 1983 as the National Library Fellowships, the first Fellows commenced their research in 1984. The Fellowships were renamed in honour of Sir Harold White CBE (1905-1992), the first National Librarian, in 1985.
The Fellowships aimed to promote the Library as a centre of scholarly activity and research, and encourage the use and promotion of the Library's rich and varied collections. It supported 150 researchers until 2014 when it was replaced by the Fellowships and Scholarships program.
The Library will continue to honour Harold White's legacy in other ways.
Harold White Fellows, 2011-2014
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Penelope Allison Reader in Archeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester, UK | Material culture and social practices at the Old Kinchega Homestead |
| Professor John Williams Dean and Professor, Adelaide Law School, The University of Adelaide | History of the High Court |
| Dr Peter Griggs Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, James Cook University | Tea in Australia: an economic and social history |
| Associate Professor Catherine Kelly Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia | Medicine, law and the lash: the experience of military medical officers |
Dr Deborah Jordan Fellowship supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust | Love Letters of Vance and Nettie Palmer |
| Associate Professor Ann Elias Associate Professor in Critical Studies at Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney | Modernist imagery of the Great Barrier Reef 1880-1950 |
| Associate Professor Paul Sharrad Associate Professor English Literatures, University of Wollongong | Thomas Keneally's career |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Gwenda Tavan Senior Lecturer Politics, La Trobe University | Arthur Calwell's Immigration Program |
| Dr Christine Cheater Honorary Research Associate, University of Tasmania | Stealing boyhood: the experiences of institutionalised Aboriginal boys pre 1940 |
| Professor Neville Kirk Emeritus Professor Manchester Metropolitan University | Transnational Connections: Tom Mann (1856-1941), Robert Samuel Ross (1873-1931) and Labour networks in Australia, New Zealand and Britain |
| Dr Jan Tent Senior Lecturer Linguistics, Macquarie University | The Dutch Pacific |
Ms Alana Valentine Fellowship supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust | Letters to Lindy |
| Dr Kent Fedorowich Reader in British Imperial and Commonwealth History, Philosophy and Politics, University of the West of England, Bristol | The wartime mission of a truant surgeon: Sir Earle Page's diary 1941-42 |
| Professor James Cotton Visiting Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy | H. Duncan Hall: the Australian who invented the Commonwealth |
Dr David Lee Fellowship supported by the Minerals Council of Australia | The minerals boom:1960-2012. |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Professor Jim Davidson Principal Fellow, Australian Centre, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne | Bigger than Little: 'Meanjin' and 'Overland' and the Little Magazine Culture in Melbourne, 1940-1988 |
| Dr Chi Kong Lai Reader in Modern Chinese History, University of Queensland | The Power of Hair in Chinese Society, 1500-2010 |
| Professor Satendra Nandan Foundation Dean & Professor, School of Humanities & Arts, University of Fiji | An Autobiography -- A Fijian-Indian-Australian Experience |
| Dr Tim Sherratt Websites Research & Development Officer, National Museum of Australia; Freelance Historian, web developer and cultural data specialist, Adjunct Associate Professor University of Canberra. | The times of our lives: text-mining the meaning of progress |
Mr Anthony Lawrence Fellowship supportedby the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust | Critical work on the poetry of Robert Adamson |
Dr Lyn Gallacher Fellowship supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust | The Nancy Keesing Correspondence |
| Dr Mary Eagle freelance scholar | Augustus Earle in Australia |
| Professor Craig Reynolds Adjunct Professor, School of Culture, History & Language, College of Asia & the Pacific, Australian National University | Policing and the Power of Thai Amulets |
| Dr Andrew Selth Adjunct Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University | Burma's Police Forces |
| Mr Luke Keogh Research Assistant, Centre for the Government of Queensland, University of Queensland. | Coal Seam Gas: a local history |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Beatrice Bijon Senior Lecturer, Department of English and American Studies, University of Saint-Etienne, France | The Fight for Women's Suffrage. Connecting links between the British and American Movements and the Australian Movement |
| Dr Martyn Jolly Head, Photography and Media Arts, School of Art, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University | Australian photographs as they were originally published from 1950 to 1980 |
| Mr Richard White Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Sydney | Touring the Past in Australia |
| Professor Alistair Thomson Professor of History, Monash University | Out of the Shadows: Rediscovering Family Men Through Australia 1938 Oral History Project |
| Professor Stephanie Lawson Professory of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University | The Pacific Way: A Critical Reassessment |
Dr Amrita Malhi Inaugural Minerals Council of Australia Fellow | Asian Environments, Australian mines: Regional Resources and Australian Environmental Thinking |
Harold White Fellows, 2001-2010
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Bronwen Douglas Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS, Australian National University | Racial Geography, Local Knowledge, and the Naming of Oceania 1750-1850 |
| Dr Sheridan Palmer Manning Clark/CAL Residential Fellow; Honorary Fellow, the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne; independent art curator, author and arts writer | The Antipodean: The Life and Work of Bernard Smith |
| Dr Priscilla Roberts Associate Professor of History, University of Hong Kong | Anglo-American Think Tanks and China Policy |
| Dr Lynne McCarthy awarded but unable to undertake a Fellowship |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Mr John Arnold Senior Lecturer, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University | The Time was Ripe: Sun Books as an agent of cultural change in Australia |
| Dr David Carter Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History, University of Queensland | Making it in the American Market: Australian Books and American Publishers |
| Dr Robert Cribb Senior Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University | State finance in the Indonesian revolution in Java, 1945-1949 |
| Dr Tatiana Gabroussenko Visiting Fellow, China and Korea Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University | Shifting patterns of North Korean propaganda from 1994 to the present |
| Dr Philip Jones Senior Curator, Department of Anthropology, South Australian Museum | George French Angas, artist and ethnographer |
| Dr Kenneth Morgan Professor of History, Brunel University, London | ABC Orchestras |
| Dr Fiona Wheeler Professor of Constitutional Law, College of Law, Australian National University | Parachuting In: War and Extra-Judicial Activity by High Court Judges |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Susan Cochrane University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women | The lost art: William Dargie and a cultural history |
| Dr David Foster Novelist | A reading of Burton's Arabian Nights for the novel Shahrazad |
| Mr Peter Robertson Research Coordinator, Science, Engineering & Technology Portfolio, RMIT University | A biography of the Australian astronomer John Bolton |
| Dr Sue Taffe Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University | Fighting Friendships: activists for Indigenous Rights, 1950s 1980s |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Catharine Coleborne Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand | Madness in the family |
| Mr Peter Hamburger First Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Divsion, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra | The Netherlands East Indies: a perfect bureaucrats' state |
| Dr Nathalie Nguyen ARC Australian Research Fellow, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne | Vietnamese refugees: perspectives and perceptions |
| Mr Graeme Skinner Freelance music consultant | Peter Sculthorpe biography, part 2 (1975-present) |
| Dr Julie Stephens Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University | The Uses and Abuses of Feminist Cultural Memory |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Pamela Gutman Honorary Associate, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney | Bloomsbury in Burma: a biography of George Hannington Luce |
| Dr Bernadette Hince, Researcher, Canberra | The Heard Island diaries of John Béchervaise |
| Dr Jemma Purdey, Writer-in-residence, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University | Herb Feith: a biography |
| Dr Carolyn Strange, Senior Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University | Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963): visions of 'Man and Nature' in the 20th Century |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Paul Humphries Researcher, Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Albury | Identification of species, abundance and distribution of fishes in the Murray River in earlier times |
| Dr Simon Potter Lecturer in History, National University of Ireland | The connections between the mass media in Britain and Australia and the other Dominions in the period 1920-1970 |
| Professor Bob Reece, Professor of History, Murdoch University | The papers of Daisy Bates |
| Professor Thomas Shapcott, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Adelaide | The papers of Ray Mathew |
| Dr Thien Do Independent researcher | Impact of modernity and colonialism on popular religion in Vietnam in the period 1900-1945 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Albrecht Dümling Researcher at the Centre for Studies in Anti-Semitism, Technical University, Berlin | Refugee musicians from Germany and Austria in Australia |
| Dr Margot Harker Independent researcher | 'The Radiant Day' – Australians and their weddings |
| Professor Michael McClellan Associate Professor, Department of Music, Chinese University of Hong Kong | The French Revolution on stage |
| Dr Penny Olsen Visiting Fellow, School of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University | Paradise lost: the quest for the paradise parrot |
| Dr Rosemary Campbell awarded but unable to undertake a Fellowship |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Professor 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 |
| Dr Ryan Dunch Associate Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada | Reading missionary modernity in late Qing China |
| Dr Keith McKenry Freelance researcher, Canberra | The life and work of John Meredith and his role in the Australian folk revival |
| Mr 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 |
| Mr Gary Catalano awarded but unable to undertake a Fellowship |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Ms Margaret Barbalet Novelist, Canberra | Sources on Buddhism for a novel Paradise Hotel |
| Dr Rhian Davies Freelance musicologist and broadcaster, Cardiff, Wales | F.S. Kelly (1881-1916), musician and oarsman |
| Dr Satyanshu Mukherjee Retired criminologist, Canberra | A history of criminal justice policy in Australia since 1788 |
| Dr Benjamin Penny Honorary Research Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University | Religion in contemporary China: the case of Falungong |
| Dr Jane Roberts Independent research scientist, Canberra | Australian river navigation charts, their historical and scientific values |
| Mrs Susan Woodburn Special Collections Librarian, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide | Printing and publishing in Pacific Islands languages in Australia |
Harold White Fellows, 1991-2000
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| 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 of Art, 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 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr David Branagan formerly Associate Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Sydney University | Biography of geologist Sir Edgeworth David (1858-1934) |
| Ms Paula Byrne independent Canberra scholar | Research on law and manners in colonial New South Wales |
| Professor Peter Edwards Sydney University | Biography of Sir Arthur Tange |
| Dr Sarah Lloyd Australian National University | Poverty, charity and gender in Britain in the period 1700-1820 |
| Professor Joan Rydon Professor of Political Science, La Trobe University from 1975 to 1989 | Study of the political career of Sir Archdale Parkhill |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Professor Geoffrey Bolton Emeritus Professor of History, Edith Cowen University and Murdoch University, Perth, WA | Biography of Sir Edmund Barton |
| Professor 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 |
| Professor John Warhurst Professor of Political Science, Australian National University, Canberra | The First Green Decade: the Australian Conservation Foundation and Environmental Politics, 1963-73 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Professor 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 |
| Professor 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 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Professor 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 |
| Ms 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 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Professor Ian Hancock Reader in History, Australian National University | History of the Federal Liberal Party of Australia, 1944-1965 |
| Mrs 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 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Professor Donald Harman Akenson Professor of History, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada | The Irish Diaspora |
| Dr 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 |
| Dr Ann 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 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Ms Sara Dowse Writer | Cross Currents: The Search for Lisa Fitch |
| 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 |
Harold White Fellows, 1986-1990
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Dennis James Haskell Lecturer in English, University of Western Australia | A Critical Study of the Poetry of Kenneth Slessor |
| Mr Roger 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 |
| Professor Julian Thomas Postgraduate Scholar, Department of History, Australian National University | Frank Hurley: Colonial Photographer |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Gwenda Davey Folklorist | The Folklore Collections of the National Library of Australia |
| Dr David McLean Lecturer in History, Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education | The Origins of the ANZUS Alliance |
| Professor Wilfrid Prest Reader at Department of History, University of Adelaide | A Social History of Eighteenth Century English Barristers |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Mr Gerald Eades Bentley, Jr. Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada | Book Illustration in England, 1660-1830 |
| Dr Heather Radi Honorary Associate, History, University of Sydney | S.M. Bruce: a Biography |
| Professor William Richardson Visiting Scholar, Flinders University | A Detailed Study of Place-name Corruption on Maps and Charts |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Professor Ann McCulloch School of Communication and Creative Arts , Deakin University (was Victoria College, Melbourne) | Life and Work of A.D. Hope |
| Mr Frank Moorhouse Writer | The League [a novel about the League of Nations] |
| Dr Ruth Morse Lethersellers' Fellow in English, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, UK | The Australian School: Poetry since the War |
| Recipient | Research |
|---|---|
| Dr Carney T. Fisher Director of Studies (Arts), Ormond College, University of Melbourne | Historical Case Study of Political Action, Language, Argumentation and Symbolism in the Traditional Chinese State |
| Dr Ross McMullin Freelance historian | Pompey Elliott: A Biography |
| Professor Henry Reynolds Associate Professor of History, James Cook University | Aboriginal Land Rights |
Page published:
23 May 2019
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