Gammage, Professor Bill
Dates: 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005
Research Project: Australian under Aboriginal Management

Bill Gammage is a Fellow at the Humanities Research Centre, researching in Aboriginal land management at the time of contact.

Taylor, Emeritus Professor Ken
Dates: 1 January 2005 to 31 December 2005
Research Project: 1. Landscape Revisited; 2. Reading between the lines

Emeritus Professor Ken Taylor AM has degrees in Geography, Town Planning and Landscape Architecture and is former Professor of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director, Cultural Heritage Research Centre, University of Canberra. He has had a research and professional interest in cultural landscapes since the mid-1980s and published nationally and internationally on their intangible values, meanings and conservation management. His current work involves the application of this to Asia-Pacific region countries, including Australia, as the social and economic role of cultural heritage expands, and particularly through the understanding of authenticity in Asian cultures. He is a Visiting Professor at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, where he teaches on the International Program in Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism. As a Board member of AusHeritage he has participated in missions to a number of countries including India most recently at the 2004 workshop with INTACH (Indian National trust for Art and Cultural heritage) in preparation for an Indian Cultural Heritage Charter; Indonesia; and in August 2004 he will be involved in a workshop and conference in Myanmar. He has given guest lectures at various universities in the USA, Canada, Britain, France and Asia-Pacific region. He has been a consultant to UNESCO and the World Heritage Centre, particularly in relation to cultural landscape values.

He also has a particular focus on Canberra’s planning and is completing a book, Canberra the landscape city, for 2004 publication by the National Capital Authority. He comments regularly in the media on Canberra planning issues. He took part in the December 2003 ASEAN-AusHeritage Adelaide Workshop on Cultural Mapping with reference to the joint research project with the ACT government on a ‘ Cultural Map of Canberra on the Internet’ (http://www.culturalmap.act.gov.au/) . During 2005 he intends working on editing the twelve volume diary of a young British visitor to Australia in the late nineteenth century with its detailed observations and photographs of the Australian Landscape.

Farguhar, Associate Professor Mary
Dates: 21 January 2005 to 31 March 2005
Research Proposal: Landscapes and Chinese Cinema

Mary Farquhar is Associate Professor at the Griffith Business School. She specializes in China studies and was among the first group of Australian exchange students to go to China after the Cultural Revolution, where she studied at Beijing University. Her publications include Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong (NY: ME Sharpe, 1999), which won the annual International Children's Literature Association Award for the most distinguished, scholarly book published in the field. Her most recent work is a book on Chinese cinemas with Chris Berry, China Onscreen: Cinema and Nation (NY: Columbia University Press, 2005). She is also qualified in law and publishes on law and media. She was formerly Director of the Griffith Asia Pacific Research Institute at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

Vincent, Professor Andrew
Dates: 10 February to 10 April 2005
Research Proposal: TBA

Professor Andrew Vincent has worked at the Universities of Manchester, Nottingham and Cardiff. He taught at Cardiff University for twenty years and both he and his wife Mary retain strong connections with Wales. He moved to Sheffield University in 2001 as Professor of Political Philosophy. At present, he is a Visiting Professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong (until January 2005). He is a former visiting research fellow in the RSSS and the Humanities Research Centre at the ANU. He was a co-Director of the Collingwood and British Idealist Centre in Cardiff University before moving to Sheffield University, where he is now Director of the Centre for Political Ideologies. He also a co-Director of the UK Political Studies Association specialist groups on Political Ideologies and British Idealism. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies and joint editor of Collingwood and British Idealism Studies journals. He has researched and written on a number of areas of political and moral philosophy. He has a broad range of specialisms in contemporary political and moral philosophy, political ideologies, nationalism, state theory, nineteenth and twentieth century moral and political thought and philosophical idealism.

Amongst a wide range of articles in scholarly journals, he is author of Philosophy Politics and Citizenship (with Raymond Plant) (1984), Theories of the State (1987), Modern Political Ideologies (1992 and 2nd edition 1995), A Radical Hegelian: The Social and Political Philosophy of Henry Jones (with David Boucher) (1993). He is also editor of G.W.F. Hegel’s, Philosophical Propaeduetic (1986), The Philosophy of T.H. Green (1986), and Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity (1997). His most recent books have been British Idealism and Political Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2001) (with David Boucher), Nationalism and Particularity (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and The Nature of Political Theory (Oxford University Press 2004). His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Persian and Arabic. His present research is on the theory and practice of human rights. Whilst in the HRC he aiming to continue work on a book on human rights.

Gandhi, Dr Leela
Dates: 10 February 2005 to 10 March 2005
Research Proposal: Affective Communities: Anti-Imperial Thought and the Politics of Friendship.

Leela Gandhi teaches at La Trobe University. Her publications include Postcolonial Theory (1998), Measures of Home (2000) and the co-authored, England Through Colonial Eyes (2001). She is a founding co-editor of the journal Postcolonial Studies.

Rose, Dr Deborah
Dates: 21 February 2005 to19 April 2005 and then 17 October 2005 to 13 November 2005
Research Project: Waterscapes and Mermaids: Fresh Water's Face and Voice.

Deborah Rose is a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Research and Environmental Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies, at The Australian National University, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. She has worked with Aboriginal people in their claims to land, and in other decolonising contexts. Her work in both scholarly and practical arenas is focused on the convergence of social and ecological justice in cross-cultural domains.

She writes widely in the fields of anthropology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, and is particularly concerned with the intersections of ethics, ecology, and social practice. Her books include Country of the Heart: an Indigenous Australian Homeland (Aboriginal Studies Press), Nourishing Terrains, Australian Aboriginal views of Landscape and Wilderness, Dingo Makes Us Human (winner of the 1992/3 Stanner Prize), and Hidden Histories (winner of the 1991 Jessie Litchfield Award). Her most recent book came out in October 2004: Reports from a Wild Country: Ethics for Decolonisation (UNSW Press)

Gage, Dr John
Dates: 29 February 2005 to 29 April 2005
Research Proposal: Approaches to Colour in recent Australian Indigenous Art.

John Gage read Modern History at Oxford University and gained a Ph.D. in History of Art at The Courtauld Institute, London University. He taught at the University of East Anglia, Norwich from 1967-1978, with a brief intermission at Yale in 1970. From 1979-2000 he taught in the Department of History of Art at Cambridge, where he served as Head of Department from 1993-1996. In 1983 and 1988 he was Visiting Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art, and in 1990 a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Research in Visual Art, Washington, D.C.. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the HRC/CCR on two occasions since 2000. He resigned from Cambridge in 2000 and now lives in Italy, but with long periods in Australia, where he is working on a study of Indigenous approaches to colour.

Of the c.15 exhibitions which Gage has initiated or on which he has collaborated since 1964, two have been in Australia: "Turner" at the National Gallery of Australia in 1996, and "Restricting the Palette: Colour and Land" at the Canberra School of Art Gallery, ANU, in 2000. He is currently working on two exhibitions, one of which, on John Constable, will be shown at the National Gallery of Australia in 2006.

Gage has published some 50 articles, conference papers and catalogue essays since 1960, as well as eight books, including Colour in Turner:Poetry & Truth (1969), Colour & Culture; Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (1993), which was awarded the 1994 Mitchell Prize for art history , and Colour and Meaning: Art, Science and Symbolism (1999). At present he is writing a World of Art book on colour for Thames & Hudson. In 1997 Gage was awarded the International Sikkens Prize for his work on colour, in the wake of, for example, the American sculptor Donald Judd and the French sanitation company, Proprete de Paris.

Kato, Dr Kumi
Dates: 6 March 2005 to 4 June 2005
Research Project: Foresting the Cultural landscapes linking nature, culture, spirituality and community: a cross-cultural exploration.

Kumi Kato is a lecturer at School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts, The University of Queensland. She has a diverse teaching and research background in environmental studies, cross-cultural communication, teacher (foreign language) education and curriculum development. Her current teaching includes Introduction to Environment and Culture; Environment and Asia: a cross-cultural approach; Inter-cultural communication and Language Teaching Methodology.

Her main research interest is linking “community culture, livelihood and identity” and the “sense of place realized as perceived landscapes”, which play critical part in environmental conservation. Currently she is examining landscapes perceived and constructed through senses, narratives and various forms of community activities – livelihood activities, celebrations, rituals and artistic expressions - from communities in Japan and Australia. She believes developing cross-cultural perspectives, particularly involving non-English-background cultures, has still much to contribute to environmental discourse, and especially the sense of community and embracement of diversity are some of the particular strengths Asian societies can offer to further development of environmental thinking.

Tonkin, Mr Ray
Dates: 28 March 2005 to 30 June 2005
Research Project: Building and Architecture in the Landscape

Ray is Director of Heritage Victoria, a position he has held for over 10 years.

Prior to that he was Director of the Historic Buildings Council and as a result has been closely associated with the development of heritage protection legislation, policies and the administration of those matters in Victoria for a long time.

Ray is an architect and planner and has used these qualifications as a basis for his career in heritage conservation, even though much of his current work could be better described as public administration and issues management.

He has seen substantial growth and change in the community’s interest in heritage matters, none the less being the growth in interest ingardens and landscape as part of our cultural heritage.

Mycak, Dr Sonia
Dates: 4 April 2005 to 24 June 2005
Research Project: Literary landscapes: theorising multicultural literary cultures in Australia

Sonia Mycak is an Australian Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council based in the Department of English at the University of Sydney. Her early work was in literary theory and she is author of In Search of the Split Subject: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and the Novels of Margaret Atwood (Toronto: ECW Press, 1996).More recently Sonia’s research has focussed upon the multicultural literatures of Australia and Canada; culturally diverse writing communities; multicultural literary and cultural theory; ethnic cultural formations and communities; and the construction of national and cultural identities in multicultural societies. She is author of Canuke Literature: Critical Essays on Canadian Ukrainian Writing (Huntington, NY, USA: Nova History Publications, 2001) and she edited I’m Ukrainian, Mate! New Australian Generation of Poets (Kyiv, Ukraine: Alternativy, 2000) and Australian Mosaic: An Anthology of Multicultural Writing (Sydney: Heinemann, 1997). Sonia is editor of Australian Canadian Studies, refereed journal of the Association for Canadian Studies in Australia and New Zealand.

Plumwood, Dr Val
Dates: 6 April 2005 to 16 September 2005 Part-time
Research Project: Gardening and the Ethics of Place

Val Plumwood is Australian Research Council Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Australian National University. Plumwood brings both modern and ancient philosophy and feminist theory to her work on revising conceptions of human identity and interspecies relations. Her ecofeminist classic Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (Routledge 1993) has been described as “shaking philosophy to its foundations”. In her latest book Environmental Culture: the Ecological Crisis of Reason (Routledge 2002), she argues that centric blindspots can bring down species as well as empires. Tackling the environmental crisis requires deep change in the dominant culture at all levels.

Val Plumwood has lectured in the USA, Germany, Finland, Spain, Canada, Indonesia and the UK. A recent essay on Plumwood’s work can be found in 50 Key Thinkers on the Environment ed. Joy A. Palmer, Routledge 2001, 283-290. On October 14th 2003 the Australian National University and the National Institute for the Environment sponsored a symposium to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Plumwood and Routley’s groundbreaking 1973 book on Australian forestry, The Fight for the Forests. (The Fight for the Forests symposium, now online at: http://cres.anu.edu.au/fffweb)

Arps, Professor Ben
Dates: 9 May 2005 to 31 July 2005
Research Project: Audio discourse and its allure: making sense of media sounds in Indonesia

Ben Arps has been Professor of Javanese Linguistics and Literary Studies at Leiden University since 1993. Earlier he taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (1988-1993).

Arps's research and teaching are about language and discourse, conceived from an anthropological-linguistic point of view. He is particularly interested in the mediation and performance of language, in the exercise of control over language, and in thematization in discourse and text. Further fields of interest are the changing positions of the so-called 'regional' languages and cultures under Indonesian governance, the peculiarities of Javanese colloquial speech, and literature, drama (not least puppetry) and religious practice and thought in their socio-historical contexts. Arps has published, lectured, taught and directed research projects regarding these topics (see <http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/Arps/BAIntro.htm>).

During his Visiting Fellowship at the HRC Ben Arps hopes finally to complete, after more than eleven years of pottering about, a book entitled Audio Discourse and Its Allure: Making Sense of Media Sounds in Indonesia. This is a study of language in what might be called the Indonesian audio landscape, encompassing sound amplification, radio, audio cassettes and CDs,
telephony, and the sounds of other media. The focus is on the performance aspects of audio language.

During, Dr Simon
Dates: 16 May 2005 to 29 August 2005
Research Project: The Arnold family: cultural critique, settler colonialism and literary subjectivity.

Simon During was educated at Victoria University, Auckland University and Cambridge University. He joined the Faculty at University of Melbourne in 1983 and currently retains a chair there. He is also currently Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University. His academic interests are various: he has written on postcolonialism, cultural studies, literary theory, Australian literature and British literary history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His latest books are Modern Enchantments: the cultural power of secular magic (Harvard University Press 2002) and Cultural Studies: a critical introduction (Routledge 2004). The first is a history of the impact of magic illusions on modern culture; and the second offers a polemical overview of cultural studies. He is currently working on the history of literary subjectivity and on relations between metropolitan and settler-colonial cultures in the period 1700-1950.

Law, Dr Wing-Sang
Dates: 30 June 2006 to 5 August 2005
Conference visitor for the Asian Cities and Cultural Change Conference.

Dr. Wing-sang Law is currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He graduated from University of Technology, Sydney in 2002 with the dissertation entitled Collaborative Colonialism: A Genealogy of Competing Chineseness in Hong Kong. His research interests include cultural formation of Hong Kong, comparative social thoughts and citizenship. He edited several cultural studies books in Chinese. He also published articles in international journals such as Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation and Positions. East Asia Cultural Critique, etc. He is now working on a project on cultural criticisms in late-colonial Hong Kong.

Radstone, Dr Susannah
Dates: 1 July to 23 September 2005
Research Project: Modes of Memory in the Public Sphere.

Susannah Radstone teaches in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London. She writes on cultural theory, particularly psychoanalysis and memory studies, and on contemporary film and literature. Recent publications include two edited volumes, Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory and Regimes of Memory (both ed. With Katharine Hodgkin, 2003). These developed from a large international conference, ‘Frontiers of Memory’ which she organized with Katharine Hodgkin. Other publications include Memory and Methodology (ed), Berg, 2000. Recently, she has published a series of essays in Screen, Signs, Cultural Values, and Paragraph (forthcoming) all of which engage critically with ‘trauma theory’.

In 2003 she co-organised the joint UEL, Tavistock Clinic and British Psychoanalytical Society international conference ‘Culture and the Unconscious’ and she is currently co-editing a book on this topic and co-organising ‘Culture and the Unconscious 2’ (July 2004). She is currently acting as London consultant for the 2005 conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (US), to be held in London.

She is a member of the Raphael Samuel History Centre at the University of East London, and an editor of the volume series Memory and Narrative (Transaction Books, Rutgers University). Current projects include co-editing and contributing to a special issue of Economy and Society, on ‘The Emotions in Public Life’ and co-editing and contributing to a special dossier on Memory in History Workshop Journal. She is currently completing a monograph, On Memory and Confession: The Sexual Politics of Time, to be published by Routledge. Projects currently being developed include a second monograph on Memory in the Public Sphere, and, with Bill Schwarz, The Companion To Memory.

Gourievidis, Dr Laurence
Dates: 10 July 2005 to18 September 2005
Research Project: Through the Looking Glass: Mid 19th C Highland emigration to Australia in Scottish and Australian heritage

Laurence Gourievidis has an M.A. in British Studies from the University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle) and a Ph.D. in Scottish History from the University of St Andrews. She currently lectures in the Department of English at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand (France), teaching both undergraduate and post-graduate courses in modern British and Irish history.

Her research focuses on the interpretation of the period of the Highland Clearances in Northern Scotland in history, literature, politics and museums. A particular current interest is the representation of traumatic events such as famines, evictions and population migrations in museums and heritage centres and the interaction between history and memory in such lieux de mémoire.

Eklund, Dr Erik
Dates: 10 July to 2 October 2005
Research Project: Frontiers of Labour: Industrial and Mining Towns in Australian History

Dr Erik Eklund in a senior lecturer in Australian History at the University of Newcastle. His research interests cover the history of Australian mining and industrial towns, with a particular focus on identity and belonging. His book Steel Town: The making and breaking of Port Kembla (MUP, 2002) won the NSW Premier's History Prize for Regional and Community History in 2003. In 2001 he was awarded a traveling fellowship by the Australian Academy of Humanities and was a recipient of the Australian Historical Association/Commonwealth Government Centenary of Federation publication grant.

His latest book (with Martin Crotty) is a textbook on colonial Australia entitled Australia to 1901: Selected readings in the making of a nation (Tertiary Press, 2003). He has published in the journals Labour History, Australian Economic History Review and the Oral History Association Journal. He is currently one of the book review editors for Labour History.

Carruthers, Dr Jane
Dates: 9 July to 18 August 2005
Research Project: Landscape, heritage and history: Protected natural areas in South Africa and Australia.

Dr Jane Carruthers has been a member of the History Department, University of South Africa (Pretoria) since 1980. Jane pioneered environmental history in southern Africa and The Kruger National Park: A Social and Political History (Pietermaritzburg, 1995) has become a significant classic, while her articles on the history of nature protection and community conservation in South Africa have influenced government policy as well as historiography. Her collaborative publication, South African National Parks: A Celebration, was a showpiece at the World Parks Congress held in Durban in 2003. Although known mainly for her work in environmental history Jane is a versatile historian with a wide range of interests. She has written a number of books, contributed to others and been the author of many scholarly articles in academic journals. Two of her publications, Wildlife and Warfare: The Life of James Stevenson-Hamilton (Pietermaritzburg, 2001) and The Jameson Raid: A Centennial Retrospective (Johannesburg, 1996) have been short-listed for the prestigious Alan Paton Award for non-fiction writing in South Africa. Jane’s interest in colonial art is reflected in The Life and Work of Thomas Baines (with Marion Arnold, Cape Town, 1995) and Melton Prior: War Artist in Southern Africa, 1895 to 1900 (Johannesburg, 1989). In 2004 she was awarded the South Africa-Clare Hall (Cambridge University) Visiting Fellowship.

Jane has researched comparisons between the environmental history of South Africa and Australia and has been the recipient of two Visiting Fellowships in the History Program of the Research School of the Social Sciences at the Australian National University, as well as the Fred Alexander Fellowship at the University of Western Australia. She has collaborated with a number of Australian scholars, including Tom Griffiths, Libby Robin, Stephen Dovers, Mandy Martin, Norman Etherington and Vivian Forbes. She has worked with the South African government on community conservation and land claims and has also participated workshops in Australia on this theme.

More recently, she has turned her attention to the cultural history of science, working on the history of ornithology, cartography and conservation biology. Presently she has also embarked on a project to research the World Heritage Sites in Africa and her Visiting Fellowship to the Humanities Research Centre in 2005 will enable her to pursue this with the help of the acknowledged Australian expertise on cultural heritage issues.

Arnold-de Simine, Dr Silke
Dates: 17 July to 15 September 2005
Research Project: The Aestheticisation of Memory

Dr Silke Arnold-de Simine has degrees in German and English Literature, Art History and Philosophy and has studied at the universities of Munich, Karlsruhe, Mannheim (Germany) and Oxford (UK). At present, she is Assistent Professor of German at the University of Mannheim, previously she has been teaching at the Universities of Karlsruhe, Mannheim (Germany), Waterloo (Canada) and Cambridge (UK). She has published widely in the fields of German literature and history since 1750, gender and cultural studies and film. She is the author of Leichen im Keller: Zu Fragen des Gender in Angstinszenierungen der Schauer- und Kriminalliteratur, 1790-1830 (2000).

In her current research project, she deals with the organization of memory in the media of literature, film and the museum in relation to German reunification. In this context, she is editing a volume of essays on German literature and national identity after 1989 with the title Memory Traces: 1989 and the Question of German Cultural Identity, which is going to be published in the series of the Cambridge research group Cultural History and Literary Imagination. The volume examines the way in which the ruptures that shaped German history in the 20th century have provoked a constant rewriting of that history and a rethinking of our practices of remembrance and commemoration.

White, Associate Professor Terri-ann
Dates: 14 August 2005 to 2 September 2005

Terri-ann White works at The University of Western Australia. Her stories and other writing have been published widely; a collection entitled Night and Day was released by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in 1994. Over the past decade she has been a passionate collaborator with other artists: dancers, visual artists, musicians. For twelve years she was an independent bookseller, as owner and manager of the Arcane Bookshop in Perth. Her second book Finding Theodore and Brina was released by Fremantle Arts Centre Press in August 2001. Speedfactory-a work generated by writing games played by email-a collaboration with Bernard Cohen, John Kinsella and McKenzie Wark, was published in July 2002. Terri-ann edited a special issue of the journal Salt, released in early 2003 under the title Memory Writing.
Her position as Director of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Western Australia involves bringing academics across their disciplinary divides to work together on annual research programs, and drawing the interested larger community to the University to participate in a range of activities.

Noone, Dr Michael
Dates: 6 September 2005 to 26 November 2005
Research Project: Musical Landscapes in Don Quijote's La Mancha

Musicologist and choral director Michael Noone comes to the HRC after a career that has embraced a variety of teaching, research and performance posts at universities in five countries. A graduate of Sydney University, he went on to receive a doctorate in music from King’s College, Cambridge, before being appointed Head of Musicology at the then Canberra School of Music. He subsequently held teaching and research positions at the University of Hong Kong, Cornell University and Boston College. He has recorded six CDs of Spanish polyphony for the Glossa and ABC Classics labels with such groups as the Orchestra of the Renaissance, the Sydney Chamber Choir, and the Song Company. In 2000 he founded the London-based Ensemble Plus Ultra for the specific purpose of performing the Spanish music that is the subject of his research. Their two recently-released CDs have received high praise from critics and their performances at some of Europe’s most important International Festivals, are consistently acclaimed. Noone’s Music and Musicians in the Escorial Liturgy under the Habsburgs was hailed as “trailblazing’ and his more recent El Códice 25 de la catedral de Toledo presented important codicological work that unveiled hitherto unknown works by Morales, Guerrero, Lobo and many other composers of Spain’s ‘Golden Age’.

Noone is passionate about the interrelationship of music scholarship and performance and is deeply concerned with the complex issues raised when music of the past is performed in the present. At the HRC he will explore the performance and composition of music in the La Mancha of Don Quijote. Seizing the opportunity raised by the 400th anniversary in 2006 of De Torres 1606 sailing through the Torres Strait, Noone will in addition be examining the musical consequences of Spanish and Portuguese contacts with Latin America and the Asia-Pacific.

Michael welcomes visits to his website http://www.ensembleplusultra.com/ and may be contacted at mnoone@musicologia.com.

Hauser, Dr Kitty
Dates: 1 October 2005 to 23 December 2005
Research Project: Aerial Australian: maps, photographs and the imagination

Dr Kitty Hauser is a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and an Honorary Associate of Sydney University. Her main research interests revolve around the relationship between photography and the activities of forensic scientists, historians, detectives and archaeologists. Her D.Phil. thesis, entitled Photography and the Archaeological Imagination: Britain c.1927 - 1951, is due to be published by Oxford University Press, and she is currently writing a book about the archaeologist and photographer O. G. S. Crawford, to be published by Granta. Her recent article 'A Garment in the Dock: Or, How the FBI Illuminated the Prehistory of a Pair of Denim Jeans' was awarded the Alfred Gell Memorial Prize from the Journal of Material Culture this year. She has also written about contemporary art and culture for the New Left Review, Artforum, Make: the Magazine of Women’s Art, the Burlington Magazine, The Diplomat and the London Review of Books.

Sclater, Dr Anthony
Dates: 3 October 2005 to 23 December 2005
Research Project: The 'Entangled Bank' - landscape aesthetics in the writings of Charles Darwin

Andrew Sclater's career has spanned biological siences and the humanities. Most recently, he has spent five years as an editor of Charles Darwin's correspondence at the University of Cambridge. Previously, he has taught the history of landscape and garden aesthetics at the Architectural Association, London, and in the University of Wales. He is a consultant in historic parks and gardens and a former lecturer in horticulture and plant science. Andrew has a special interest in the relationships of landscape to art and science. With a colleague, he founded the National Botanic Garden of Wales, which opened in 2000.

White, Dr Anthony
Dates: 14 November 2005 to 31 December 2005
Research Project: Indigenous Art and Cultural Negotiation: The Anangu and Charles Mountford

Anthony White is a Lecturer in the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology at the The University of Melbourne. His main research interest is 20th century art, with a particular focus on Italian modernism and post-WWII American art. A graduate of Harvard University, his PhD was on the work of the Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899 – 1968). From 2000 - 2002 he was the Curator of International Painting and Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia. In that position he curated a number of exhibitions including 'Fida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism' and 'Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles.' He wrote for and edited the published catalogues for both exhibitions. In 2002 he also co-curated (with Steven Tonkin) 'Sol LeWitt: Drawings, Prints and Books, 1968 – 1988.'

Among his recent publications are 'Lucio Fontana: Between Utopia and Kitsch,' Grey Room 5, 2001, pp. 54-77 and 'Abstract Art, Ethics and Interpretation: The Case of Mario Radice,' The Australian and New Zealand of Art 4, no. 2., 2004, pp. 43 - 56. He is the Treasurer of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand, and is on the editorial board of the The Australian and New Zealand of Art. His current research projects include: a monograph on Lucio Fontana, a survey of the relationship between Italian modern art and fascism, and a study of the circumstances surrounding the 1976 publication of Charles Mountford's book Nomads of the Western Desert.