Any subject

Supported by past and present members of the National Library Council and Patrons

• Dr Eleanor Hogan, independent researcher, Eleanor Witcombe: Her Brilliant Career

Supported by the Stokes family

• Dr Lorinda Cramer, Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University, Unravelling the history of Australian fashion
• Dr Mei-fen Kuo, Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese Culture and History, Macquarie University
Print Culture, The Cold War Legacy and Understanding “Chineseness” in Australia
• Dr Adam Sundberg, Associate Professor, Creighton University,
Globalizing Exotics: An Environmental History of Ballast Water Management in Australia

Japan studies

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust

• Dr Tets Kimura, Research Associate in the Creative Arts, Flinders University, The historical and cultural development of Japanese fashion: A chronology from the Edo (17th Century) to the Reiwa (21st Century) eras

Australian literature

Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust

• Dr Deirdre O'Connell, independent researcher,
Pakie's Club: Mapping the Literary Salons of Augusta "Pakie" MacDougall 1875-1945

Offered by the Library

• Dr Alice Garner, Research associate, University of Melbourne,
Making it count: the many lives of Mavis Robertson (Research for an audio documentary)
• Dr Wesley Lim, Lecturer in German Studies, Australian National University, Between Austria and Australia: Staging Hybrid Nationhood in the Photographs of Gertrud Bodenwieser and her Dance Companies

• A/Prof Deane Williams, Associate Professor, Film and Screen Studies, Monash University,
A Cultural Biography of Ron Maslyn Williams

Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust for Research in Australian Literature

• Professor Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University, Australian theatre artists of the 1930s & 1940s: Investigating the "Ribush Circle"

Supported by the Stokes family

• Professor Paul Turnbull, Emeritus Professor, University of Tasmania, Living with the Dead: Cross-Cultural Encounters with Death and Burial in Colonial Australia, 1820-1920
• Ms Madelyn Shaw, independent scholar based in the USA, Fabric of War: A Hidden History of the Global Wool Trade
• Dr Susan Hemer, Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide, "Women and Children Last": the establishment of maternal child health services in Papua New Guinea

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust for Japan Studies

• Dr Gwyn McClelland, Lecturer in Japanese, University of New England, Trauma and World Heritage on the Gotō Islands: 1856-1899
• Dr Ryan Johnson, Tutor, University of Sydney, Triangulating French, Japanese, and Russian Literatures in Twentieth-Century Japan

Supported by past and present members of the National Library Council and Patrons

• Associate Professor Alison Holland, Academic, Macquarie University, The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission: Toward a History

Offered by the Library

• Dr Kate Warren, Lecturer, Art History and Curatorship, Australian National University, The role of popular magazines in Australian art history and arts communication
• Professor Sue Green, Professor Indigenous Australian Studies, Charles Sturt University, Reverting the Gaze
• Dr Annie McCarthy, Assistant Professor Global Studies, University of Canberra
  Writers, Poets, Artists and Performers: A New History of Children’s Participation in International Development

Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust for Research in Australian Literature

• Professor Anne Pender, Professor and Kidman Chair in Australian Studies, University of Adelaide
  The Colour of Fire: Australian Theatre in China and Chinese Theatre in Australia 1980-2020

Supported by the Stokes family

• Dr Anna Dziedzic, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hong Kong, Waves and currents: the movement of constitutional texts and ideas across Oceania
• Dr André Brett, Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow in History, University of Wollongong
  Scars in the Country: Railways in Australian and New Zealand Environments, 1850s–1914
• Professor Melanie Oppenheimer, Professor and Chair of History, Flinders University, Imperial Power Couple: The Political and Personal Lives of Helen and Ronald Munro Ferguson

Supported in memory of Averill Edwards

• Adjunct Professor Russell McGregor, Adjunct Professor, James Cook University, Bird-lovers: A history of birdwatching passions

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust for Japan Studies

• Dr Andrew Levidis, Research Associate Fellow, University of Cambridge, The Dreamworlds of Empire: Manchukuo, Militarism and Transnational Anti-Communism in East Asia, 1945-1975
• Dr Bill Mihalopoulos, Lecturer in Asian Pacific Studies, University of Central Lancashire, Liberty’s Shackles: Freedom, Consent and Sexual Servitude in Modern Japan

Supported by past and present members of the National Library Council and Patrons

• Dr Angelique Stastny, independent researcher based in France, Indigenous activist periodicals shifting politics in the Pacific: anti-colonialism, black power and whiteness

Offered by the Library

• Professor Kate Fullagar, Professor of History, Australian Catholic University, The Lives of Bennelong and other Indigenous negotiators in the Pacific world, 1750-1820
• Dr Allison Cadzow, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Aboriginal Missions and Reserves histories for the National Centre of Biography interactive mapping project

Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust for Research in Australian Literature

• Professor Vivien Johnson, Adjunct Professor, Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Writing Papunya: The Making of an Illustrated Vernacular Literature 1974-1991

Supported by the Stokes family

• Dr Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Associate Professor in History, University of Wollongong, Memory-Keepers: Women activists’ strategies to document their history and preserve their own memory
• Professor Judith Bennett, Professor of History, University of Otago (NZ), Constant coconuts, a history of a Pacific commodity
• Dr Sugata Nandi, Assistant Professor, West Bengal State University (India), Superior and Subversive? Theosophy, Esotericism and Indian Magic, 1875-1950

Supported in memory of Averill Edwards

• Dr Georgia Pike, Visiting Fellow, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, 'Since Ma’s Gone Mad on Community Singing’: community singing in interwar Australia

Supported by the Minerals Council of Australia

• Professor Jérémie Gilbert, Professor of Human Rights, University of Roehampton (UK), Indigenous Peoples Cosmovisions, Ecological Stewardship and the Law: Lessons from Australia

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust

• Dr Shine Choi, Lecturer, Massey University (NZ), Understanding North Korea’s Third World Diplomacy through Culture and Art

Supported by the Patrons and Supporters of the Library’s Treasures Gallery Access Program for Curatorial Research

• Ms Alisa Bunbury, Grimwade Collection Curator, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, The Eastern Isle: Norfolk Island in Colonial Art and Writings

Offered by the Library

• Dr Louise Hamby, Visiting Research Fellow, Australian National University, Experiences at Milingimbi through Axel Poignant’s Photographs
• Dr Susan Martin, Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor Research/Professor of English, La Trobe University, I loved a sunburnt country

Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust for Research in Australian Literature

• Dr Ellen Smith, Gender Studies and Australian Literature, Deakin University, Queers in Exile: Sexuality and Ex-Patriotism in Mid-Century Australian Literature

Supported by the Stokes family

• Dr Ashley Barnwell, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Melbourne, Family Secrets, National Silences: Intergenerational Memory in Settler Colonial Australia
• Ms Kaz Cooke, author, cartoonist and broadcaster, The History of Advice to Women (‘If You’re a Woman, You’re Doing it Wrong’)
• Dr Daniel Midena, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Queensland, A History of Medicine, Christianity and Sorcery: Edwin G. Tscharke (1918-2000) and the Lutheran Medical Mission to New Guinea

Supported in memory of Averill Edwards

• Associate Professor Andrea Gaynor, Head of History, University of Western Australia, The Wild Next Door: Children’s Engagement with Urban Nature in Australia, 1965-2000

Supported by the Minerals Council of Australia

• Dr Sam Lebovic, Assistant Professor of History, George Mason University, The End of Mass Media: A History of Broadcast Deregulation in Australia, the US and the UK

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust

• Dr Yasuko Claremont, Senior Lecturer, School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney
  A Critical Analysis of Atomic Bomb Literature
• Associate Professor Kama MacLean, South Asian and World History, University of New South Wales
  An Australian Governor in British India: R.G. Casey and the Endgame of Empire

Supported by the Patrons and Supporters of the Library's Treasures Gallery Access Program for Curatorial Research

• Dr Elizabeth Moylan, Honorary Associate, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney, Improving Access to Historical Maps to Support Aboriginal Cultural Landscape Research

Offered by the Library

• Dr Alexandra Dellios, Cultural Historian, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University, Migrant/Ethnic Protest and Activism in Early Multicultural Australia
• Professor Elaine Hobby, Researcher and Professor of 17th-Century Studies, Loughborough University
  Editing the First Professional Woman Writer in English: Aphra Behn in Australia

Supported by Deidre McCann and Kevin McCann AM and the Macquarie Group Foundation

• Dr Rebecca Jones, Senior Research Fellow, School of Rural Health, Monash University, Crazy Weather

Supported by Ryan Stokes

• Dr Maggie Tonkin, Senior Lecturer, Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
  The Creative Process of Meryl Tankard

Supported by Library Patrons and Supporters

• Professor Lisa Adkins, Professor of Sociology, University of Newcastle and Academy of Finland Distinguished Professor, Wageless Life in the Great Depression

Supported by past and present members of the National Library Council

• Dr Rachel Stevens, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne
  Refugees, Relief and revolution: Australians in the Bangladesh Liberation War

Supported by the Minerals Council of Australia

• Professor David Vines, Emeritus Fellow of Economics, Balliol College, Oxford University, Macroeconomic Policymaking in Australia: the Crucial Years

Supported by the Ray Mathew and Eva Kollsman Trust for Research in Australian Literature

• Professor Gillian Russell, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Charles Lamb, Romantic literary cultures, and the Australian Common Reader 1822-1960

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust for Research in Japan Studies

• Dr Linda Zampol D’Ortia, Religious Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand, Perceptions of missionary failure

Supported by the Patrons and Supporters of the Library's Treasures Gallery Access Program for Curatorial Research

• Associate Professor Lisa Chandler, Associate Professor of Art and Design, University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Interrupted Voyage: Visual and Narrative Constructions of Interactions between Colonial Castaways and Indigenous Australians

Offered by the Library

• Dr Ruth Barraclough, Senior Lecturer, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University, Red Glamour: Korea’s Early Communist Women
• Dr Elizabeth Burrows, Program Director, Communications, Griffith University, Queensland
  Mediating the Movement: Aboriginal Rights Movement media from origin to online

Supported by Deidre McCann and Kevin McCann AM and the Macquarie Group Foundation

• Dr Frances Steel, Senior Lecturer in History, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong, Cool Cargoes: Australia-Pacific food trades and transformations in the age of refrigeration

Supported by Ryan Stokes

• Dr Shih-Wen Chen, Lecturer in Literary Studies, Deakin University, Children’s Literature and Print Culture in Late Qing and Early Republican China, c.1875-1915

Supported by past and present members of the National Library Council

• Professor Ayhan Turhan Aktar, Institute of Social Sciences, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey, In the Eyes of their Foes: Study of Anzac Travellers’ Narratives at Gallipoli in the Australian Press, 1990-2015

Supported by Library Patrons and Supporters

• Dr Gillian Arrighi, Senior Lecturer, Creative and Performing Arts, University of Newcastle, Pinafores, Prodigies and Precocities: The Entertaining Child in the Age of Empire

Supported by the Eva Kollsman and Ray Mathew Trust for Research in Australian Literature

• Dr Gabrielle Carey, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing Program, University of Technology Sydney, Ivan Southall and his readers: a study of the reader-writer relationship

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust for Research in Japan Studies

• Dr Michele Monserrati, Visiting Professor in Italian and Comparative Literature, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA, Searching for Japan in Contemporary Italy

Supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust for Research in Japan Studies

• Dr Masafumi Monden, Research Associate, University of Technology Sydney, The Changing Scape of Shōjo: Examining Girlhood, Aesthetics and Self-hood in Japanese Popular Culture

Supported by the Library

• Mr Paul Diamond, Curator, Mäori, Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Enhancing Description of Mäori Collections of the National Library of Australia
• Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Visiting researcher, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University, On the origin and evolution of a species: Australian scientists in fiction

Supported by Deidre McCann and Kevin McCann AM and the Macquarie Group Foundation

• Professor Klaus Neumann, Professor, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Becoming Australian: The published autobiographical texts of first-generation immigrants from non-English speaking backgrounds

Supported by Ryan Stokes

• Dr Agnieszka Sobocinska, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University, The Volunteer Graduate Scheme and the cultural history of foreign aid

Supported by past and present members of the National Library Council

• Professor Lesley Johnson, Emeritus Professor, Griffith University and University of Technology Sydney
  Institutions of the Humanities

Supported by Library Patrons and Supporters

• Associate Professor Michelle Arrow, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Private Lives, Public Politics: A new history of the 1970s in Australia

Japan Studies, supported by the Harold S. Williams Trust

• Dr Luke Gartlan, School of Art History, University of St Andrews, St Andrews Fife, United Kingdom, Of Other Networks: Photograph Albums and Early Japanese-Australian Cultural Exchanges

Research in Australian Literature, supported by the Eva Kollsman and Ray Mathew Trust

• Dr Bridget Vincent, McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, University of Melbourne, Poetry and Public Apology in the Twentieth Century (Judith Wright)

Offered by the Library

• Dr Amanda Harris, Research Associate and Operations Manager, PARADISEC, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, 'Corroboree' and Australian Cultural Identity: Public Performance, Reception and Transformation of Australian Aboriginal Music and Dance 1945-70
• Mr Michael Piggott, Consultant archivist and researcher; Adjunct Lecturer, Charles Sturt University, Sir John Ferguson's Manuscripts – A study of their provenance
• Associate Professor Clinton Fernandes, ADFA, University of NSW Canberra, The bi-partisan consensus in Australian foreign policy, 1983