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HRC Current Graduate
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Baba
Robert Bell
Kate Bowan
Chris Blackall
Eric Carpenter
Jan Cooper
Will Davies
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Amanda Day
Anna Garretson
James Hurst
Ann Jones
Martha Liew
Stephanie Lindsay-Thompson
Ann McGrath
Peter McLaren
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Sylvia Marchant
Bernice Murphy
Tina Parolin
Robert Shaw
Phillip Sheldrick
Leigh Toop
Jill Waterhouse (postponed for 2 years)
Lansheng Zhang
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PhD Candidate (6 months suspension till 2006)
T: (02) 6125 7797
E: Chris.Blackall@anu.edu.au |
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PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 54251
F: (02) 612 52438
E: Kate.Bowan@anu.edu.au |
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PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 52674
F: (02) 612 59874
E: Eric.Carpenter@anu.edu.au |
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PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 55886
F: (02) 612 59874
E: Jan.Cooper@anu.edu.au |
Having joined the fledgling Commonwealth Aboriginal
affairs authority in 1967, Jan fell under the spell of the far
west of New South Wales when she went to Bourke for four years
in 1976 to develop the Regional Office of the then Department
of Aboriginal Affairs. Embarking on a study of the region’s
settlement history in 1983, she also supplemented her undergraduate
and post-graduate academic interests of Australian government,
chinese, anthropology and social administration, with study of
Australian history at Sydney University.
Jan re-commenced her research after working in the far west in
various capacities and programs including remote school hostels
and nature tourism. Her thesis is titled Redistributing Rangelands:
Closer Pastoral Settlement in the Western Division of New South
Wales. She aims to examine four main phases in the process
of closer settlement there, seeing the process through the perspectives
of the main actors: the politicians, bureaucrats, lessees losing
land, and the beneficiaries gaining it. She also seeks to assess
the values driving the process and the degree to which understanding
of the natural resource influenced it. |
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PhD Candidate (part-time)
T: (02) 612 53991
F: (02) 612 59874
E: Will Davies@anu.edu.au |
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PhD Candidate (part-time)
T: (02) 612 55890
F: (02) 612 52438
E:Amanda.Day@anu.edu.au |
I joined the HRC in March 2004, having completed
my BA at ANU in 1996 majoring in Australian History and Japanese.
After graduating, I went to UC and completed a Dip Ed (Secondary)
and currently work as an Executive Teacher in Student Welfare
at an ACT High School. My main teaching area is Japanese and I
have spent time living in Kyoto City. I also teach SOSE (History).
I completed my Honours degree in Australian history through Distance
Education at UNE in 2000.
My interest in Australian history stems from my mother, an historian,
and my family’s connections with their own heritage. Numerous
people have inspired me along the way, including my former Modern
History teacher at CCEGGS and my UNE supervisor, Dr. John Atchison.
My approach to history is hands on, practical and engaging. I
am a great believer, as W K Hancock was, of putting on one’s
boots and investigating what people did.
My dissertation is primarily a study of William Bradley, 1800
- 1868. He was born in 1800 at Windsor, on the Hawkesbury River
to Jonas Bradley, a sergeant in the New South Wales Corps and
Catherine Shiel, a transported Irish Protestant convict. Bradley
died in 1868, at ‘Lindesay’ (now a National Trust
Property), his Sydney residence, a self-made multi-millionaire.
William Bradley's currency lad roots disguise a zealous and industrious
man, motivated by his father's desire for respectability and security.
He was among the first settlers on the Goulburn Plains, securing
this region as an agricultural base for his systematic domination
of the southwest frontier and beyond. Bradley constructed a substantial
headquarters, including a still operational brewery at Goulburn,
which was the center of his operations.
My aim is to examine the life and career of William Bradley,
a pastoralist, politician, financier, capitalist and paternalist,
and reconstruct a life and career obscured thus far from historical
inquiry. Bradley constructed his interests so that they were all
economically viable and he could control them from afar. He was
socially mobile, becoming a respected colonist who had a major
influence on the development of agriculture and industry in Goulburn,
the Monaro, the Hawkesbury and Far North Queensland.
Essentially, my dissertation will be a biography with a number
of people assessed in terms of their contribution to Bradley’s
success as a colonial entrepreneur. These people are well connected
in Australian colonial history and include Col Charles Fyshe Roberts
(a son-in-law); Sir Edward Knox; S K Salting; Thomas Woore; James
Litchfield; W A Brodribb; Charles Nicholson; W H Hovell; William
Shelley and H T Edwards amongst others. These family, business
and social associates developed an extremely powerful network
which Bradley and his successors identified with and used profitably.
William Bradley, his family, business and social associates and
the interaction of all these people in colonial Australia provide
an interesting and relevant topic that will contribute to the
continuation of Australian biography. |
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PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 53447
F: (02) 612 52438
E: Anna.Garretson@anu.edu.au |
Anna Garretson began a PhD in English at the University
of Adelaide in 2004, relocating to Canberra in early 2005 and
becoming an internal research candidate at the HRC in 2007. She
holds an undergraduate degree in Behavioural Science and a BA(Hons)
in literary studies from Griffith University. Her research project
explores representations of belonging in contemporary 'white writing'
from South Africa and Australia. Since November 2005 she has also
been working as a research assistant, first at the Research School
of the Humanities and more recently at the Research School of
Social Sciences.
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 Jamie
Hay (on program leave)
PhD Candidate
Jamie.Hay@anu.edu.au |
Jamie is a history teacher of 22 years standing. Recently
he has become interested in the nature of school history teaching.
The result is that he is now enrolled in a PhD. His research will
be focusing on the ways in which school history teaching has developed
over the last 100 years, in two different environments- Queensland
and the United Kingdom.
As well as working on his PhD, Jamie has had a paper entitled, ‘you
tell me your truth, I’ll tell you mine’ accepted for
presentation at the Australian Teachers of Media national conference
in Melbourne in July 2004 as well as a paper entitled,’teaching
Ancient history transformatively’ for presentation at the
BERA conference in September 2004 in Manchester. He currently has
one paper at review for publication in Education and Society journal
and has been invited to submit a paper to Metro magazine, the journal
of the Australian Teachers of Media. |
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PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 50208
F: (02) 612 59874
E: James.Hurst@anu.edu.au |
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BA (French Hons), MPhil (ANU); Dip Soc Stud, (Syd)
PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 54572
F: (02) 612 52438
E: Stephanie.Lindsay-Thompson@anu.edu.au
Stephanie is researching contemporary Indigenous identity in
landscape, culture and narratives of history in the Sydney region
and on the Tiwi Islands. The research topic was prompted by Indigenous
respondents in her MPhil study on ‘The Representation of
Indigenous Histories and Cultures in Small Museums of Western
Sydney’.
From a non-Aboriginal background, Stephanie became involved in
Indigenous issues while working with Aboriginal colleagues on
the Children’s Services Program, and for the Human Rights
Commission.
Earlier, Stephanie had worked with the Department of Immigration
as a Senior Social Worker and later, Senior Research Officer,
researching and writing papers for the Immigration Advisory Council.
She conducted research for the Department in Spain, on a visit
sponsored by the Spanish Institute of Emigration, and in Portugal
and Turkey.
Awarded an Italian Government scholarship in exchange with the
ANU in 1969, Stephanie undertook postgraduate studies at the University
of Perugia and in the Postgraduate School of Sociology and Social
Research, University of Rome. In 1970, she conducted research
into return migration from Australia to Italy (Lindsay Thompson
1980. Australia Through Italian Eyes: A Study of Settlers Returning
from Australia to Italy. Melbourne: OUP). The book won the Oxford
Quincentenary Award in 1978, and the NSW Premier’s Special
Book Award sponsored by the Ethnic Affairs Commission of NSW,
in 1980.
As Writer-in-Community for the ACT Arts Council’s Multicultural
Writing Project, Stephanie assisted Spanish-speaking residents
of the ACT to write their stories of migration (The Arts Council
of the ACT, with the assistance of Stephanie Lindsay Thompson
1990. Stories of Migration from the Spanish-speaking Community
of Canberra, Canberra, Copy-qik).
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PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 53991
F: (02) 612 59874
E: Ann.McGrath@anu.edu.au |
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PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 50265
F: (02) 612 59874
E: Peter.McLaren@anu.edu.au |
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PhD Candidate
E: Bernice.Murphy@anu.edu.au |
After lecturing in art theory and history in tertiary
art schools in Melbourne and Hobart, moved to the field of art
museums (first, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney),
in the late 1970s.
Curatorial work: curating and co-ordinating both Australian and
international exhibitions since the 1970s, dealing with four continents
and a range of historical material, from pre-Columbian to contemporary,
from ‘old master’ paintings from the Hermitage Museum,
Leningrad/St Petersburg (to Australia), to Australian video art,
performance and photography (to the USA, Asia and Europe); exhibition
projects have also included Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander,
Maori, and Native American art. For some years Chief Curator,
finally Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. Awarded
Australia Council's Visual Arts/Craft Board Emeritus Medal (for
museum curatorship and service to contemporary art in Australia),
1999.
Writing, editing: author of monographic study, Vision and Context:
Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney, 1995); commissioning curator/editor
and/or author of catalogues of exhibitions personally curated
over two decades, involving work with some hundreds of artists
from various countries; author of c.150 articles on diverse aspects
of museums, culture, historical art, art education, museology,
architecture, and contemporary art.
Boards/committee memberships: varied, in Australia, from tertiary
educational bodies to the Biennale of Sydney organising committee
and Australia Council’s International Committee (Visual
Arts). Art museum representative on steering committee for Australian
museums (anthropologists) and Indigenous peoples, formulating
new museums policy for Australian institutions in late 1990s.
Most recently within Australia, member of Visions of Australia
committee, reporting to federal arts Minister, allocating grants
program for touring exhibitions of Australia’s cultural
heritage to museums and galleries nationally (1997-2003).
International boards and committees: since 1995, member of 10-person
elected Executive Council of the International Council of Museums
(ICOM) – world governing body overseeing 110 ICOM National
Committees, 28 disciplinary-based International Committees, 5
Regional Organisations and 14 Affiliated Organisations - headquartered
with UNESCO in Paris; member of the ICOM Ethics Committee (1999-2002);
member of ICOM Legal Affairs and Properties Committee (2001-2004);
member for two decades of ICOM’s International Committee
on Museums and Collections of Modern Art (CIMAM). Appointed by
the ICOM Executive Council, 1999, to chair and co-ordinate a Task
Force for Reform of ICOM (1999-2001) - conducted working meetings
over 2 years with museum colleagues from all disciplines in Europe.
Vice-President of the International Council of Museums/ ICOM,
Paris, for two terms (1998-2001; 2001-2004).
Languages: working knowledge of French, German, Italian, and
to lesser extent Spanish. Beginning Mandarin.
Currently pursuing doctoral program based with HRC, ANU. Thesis
recently re-focussed from a larger international topic on museums
to a more channelled investigation of the development of the art
museum profession (and its informing disciplines and sources)
in Australia in the twentieth century. |
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PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 54572
F: (02) 612 52438
E: Robert.Shaw@anu.edu.au
Robert Shaw is currently a Doctoral candidate with the Humanities
Research Centre and is undertaking research in the field of Mahayana
Buddhism. More specifically, the investigation of the Dual Cultivation
of Chan (Zen) and Pure Land Buddhism. The research considers to
explore the historical motivations of its advocates, and the significance
of its practice, in relation to great historical figures such
as the late Venerable Master Xuyun (Empty Cloud).
Prior to his candidature with the Humanities Research Centre,
Robert completed an undergraduate and Honours degree in the Chinese
Stream of a Bachelor of Asian Studies (Specialist) Program at
Murdoch University, in addition to a Graduate Diploma in Education.
Robert’s Honours thesis was entitled Tanjing: A Partial
Translation and Commentary of the Chinese Mahayana Chan Buddhist
Sixth Patriarch’s Scripture – The Sutra of Hui Neng,
which was a partial translation of the Chinese Tang Dynasty Chan
Buddhist Sutra, the Tanjing, accompanied by extensive commentary,
discussion of the history and origins of Chan Buddhism in addition
to a brief biography of the Chan Buddhist Sixth Patriarch, Hui
Neng (Eno).
In addition to his past teaching, tutoring and lecturing positions,
Robert also spent approximately five years studying and working
in the People’s Republic of China, in addition to a short
period of time in Kyoto, Japan undertaking Japanese language training
and visiting Buddhist Temples and scholars. |
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PhD Candidate
E: Philip.Sheldrick@anu.edu.au |
| Phil Sheldrick has been a professional
history head teacher for the past fifteen years with the NSW Department
of Education. He has a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education
from the University of NSW and Masters Degrees in History and
Literature from the University of Western Sydney.
He is working towards a PhD in history at the Humanities Research
Centre. Specifically, the study examines the process by which
Queen Victoria’s image took on a life of its own beyond
the reality of her person and developed into what would be considered
in our times to be a brand for Britain and the British Empire.
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(postponed for 2 years)
PhD Candidate
T: (02) 612 54930
F: (02) 612 52438
E: Jill.Waterhouse@anu.edu.au |
| Jill Waterhouse’s relationship with the Australian
National University has come full circle. In 1966, she graduated
with honours in History from the School of General Studies (later,
the Faculties); returned to the Department of History in 1970 and
again in 1976 to tutor in British History; in 2003 and 2004 wrote
the History of University House on the occasion of its fiftieth
anniversary; and came back to the ANU again in 2006 as a PhD student
in the Humanities Research Centre.
In the meantime, she spent thirteen years in Cambridge, England,
supervising Modern British History and other Tripos papers in
several Colleges, later becoming a Senior Lecturer in History
at Homerton College. Returning to Canberra in 1990, she took up
a position as Community Historian the Canberra Museum and Gallery
(CMAG) which opened in 1995 in Civic Square. She contributed to
social history exhibitions and public events, and, from time to
time, to public art projects and to the museums of Lanyon, Mugga-Mugga
and Calthorpes’ House. Having family connections with Calthorpes’
House in Canberra and also with the house and garden museum ‘Eryldene’
in Sydney, she has some inside experience with the establishment
of house museums.
Her thesis will examine early Canberra, especially in the 1920s
and 1930s, a timely theme in view of the 100th anniversary of
the naming of Canberra in 2013.
Relevant publications include:
1978 A Light in the Bush: the history of the Canberra Church of
England Girls’ Grammar School and the national capital,
1926 –1977
1980 History Tours in and around Canberra
1984 (ed) Edward John Eyre, Autobiographical Narrative, 1832 to
1839
1987 British Settlers in Australia
1992 Canberra: Early Days at the Causeway
1997 ‘History from the Hills’ in Canberra, the Guide
1999 ‘The Spies Pub: the Hotel Kingston’ in Canberra’s
Early Hotels
2004 Australian National University: University House. As They
Experienced It:
1954-2004
Australian Dictionary of Biography articles on three Canberra-based
women, Maeva Cumpston, Hilda McIntosh and Beatrice Holt
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