School of Historical Studies History

Funded research


Grants awarded 2008

Title Researcher(s)/Grant Type
Sketch of famine victims in IrelandThe causes and consequences of the great famines of the last two centuries in Russia, China, Ireland and elsewhere
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Prof Stephen Wheatcroft

ARC Discovery Grant

Crusade, displacement and the aftermath of war in medieval FranceCrusade, displacement and the aftermath of war in medieval France
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Dr Megan Cassidy-Welch

ARC Discovery Grant

Europe and Identity: A transcultural history of European communities in the Islamic world 1685‑1800Europe and Identity:
A transcultural history of European communities in the Islamic world 1685‑1800

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Dr Ian Coller

ARC Discovery Grant (Research Fellowship)

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Grants awarded 2007

Title Researcher(s)/Grant Type
Faith, gender and cultural exchange Faith, gender and cultural exchange: Australian missions in comparative perspective, 1800-1930
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Prof Pat Grimshaw
Dr Andy Brown-May

ARC Discovery Grant

The Interior of Bedlam, from A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth, 1763A history of psychiatric institutionalisation and community care in Australia 1830s-1990s
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Professor Elizabeth Malcolm
Dr Dolly MacKinnon
Dr John Waller (Michigan State University)

ARC Discovery Grant

Australian Coat of ArtsManaging trust:
A comparative historical study of political accountability in Australia

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Dr Jackie Dickenson

ARC Fellowship

Rediscovering historical contributions in environmental planning Rediscovering historical contributions in environmental planning: Australia's Town Planning Associations
Admininstering Institution: University of New South Wales
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Prof Robert Freestone
Dr Andy Brown-May
Dr Christine Garnaut
Dr Stefan Petrow
A/Prof J. Gregory
Dr Christopher McConville

ARC Discovery Grant

Woman of the Year 2000, viewed from 1888 Women in the Age of the Self-Made Man: (Re-)Making the Female Self, France 1815-1914
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Prof Charles Sowerwine
A/Prof Susan Foley

ARC Discovery Grant

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Grants awarded 2006

Title Researcher(s)/Grant Type
Gandhi portrait 1931The Circulation of Nonviolence:
Gandhi and the History of Global Politics

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Dr Sean Scalmer

ARC Discovery Grant

The Portrait of the Qing Dynasty Cixi Imperial Dowager Empress of China in the 1900sConsumption in Late Imperial China:
An Early Modern Phenomenon?

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Dr Antonia Finnane

ARC Discovery Grant

Doris Auguste Heindorff listening to a gramophone, New Farm, Brisbane, 1903-1913Elocution Lessons:
A History of Elocution, Speech and the Auditory Self in Australian Cultural Life

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Prof Joy Damousi

ARC Discovery Grant

The 1976 Ford-Carter Presidential election debateA History of Public Conversation in the USA
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Dr David Goodman

ARC Discovery Grant

Banda Aceh grand mosque in IndonesiaIslam and the Politics of Memory in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia
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Dr Kate McGregor

Melbourne Research Grant
ARC Discovery Grant

Map of Victoria in 1916Layers of Meaning:
Historical Studies in Central Victoria's Regional Heritage 1834-1950

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Dr Keir Reeves
A/Prof AJ Mayne
Mr DP Bannear

ARC Discovery Grant

Marginal decorations of 'des vaudoises' in Le champion des dames, by Martin Le France, 1451The Living Dead:
Witchcraft and apparition in European culture (3rd to 18th century)

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Prof Charles Zika

ARC Discovery Grant

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Grants awarded 2005

Title Researcher(s)/Grant Type
Ivan Simakov. Remember about Those Who Starve! (1921)Soviet Social and Political Crises in Perspective:
From the Famine of 1931-3 to the Yezhovshchina of 1937-8

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Prof Stephen Wheatcroft

ARC Discovery Grant

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Grants awarded 2004

Title Researcher(s)/Grant Type
A Cultural History of the Body in Modern Japan A Cultural History of the Body in Modern Japan
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Prof Vera Mackie

ARC Discovery Grant

The monument of Sir Edmund Fettiplace, circa 1613, Swinbrook, Oxfordshire Memory and identity in England 1500-1700
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Dr Peter Sherlock

ARC Discovery Grant

Reason in Revolt project logoReason in Revolt:
The Role of Intellectuals in Australian Radicalism (with Political Science)

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Prof Stuart Macintyre
Assoc Prof VN Burgmann
Prof AJ Milner

ARC Discovery Grant

Scalded memory:
Violence, gender and the Irish, 1169-1923

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Prof Elizabeth Malcolm
Dr Di Hall

ARC Discovery Grant

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Grants awarded 2003

Title Researcher(s)/Grant type
Bolshevik propaganda poster of Trotsky slaying the dragon of counter-revolution, 1918Ascending the Cross:
Soviet Dissidents and the Universalisation of Human Rights

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Dr Robert Horvath

ARC Discovery Grant

Apartheid signDefining and attempting reconciliation:
A critical analysis of the pursuit of reconciliation in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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Dr David Philips

ARC Discovery Grant

Saint Augustine and the Devil by Michael Pacher c.1471-1475Diabolical fantasy in seventeenth-century Europe:
The possession and visions of Christoph Haizmann

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Prof Charles Zika

ARC Discovery Grant

Elephants in the sacred grove Elephants in the sacred grove:
A transcultural history of Thomas Jones and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist mission to the Khasi Hills

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Dr Andrew May, Prof David Syiemlieh

ARC Discovery Grant

Family and community in the central Victorian goldfields region, 1851-1933 Family and community in the central Victorian goldfields region, 1851-1933
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Assoc Prof Alan Mayne, Dr C Fahey

ARC Discovery Grant

Women in Qipao Fashionable times:
An inquiry into the history of China's modernity

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Assoc Prof Antonia Finnane

ARC Discovery Grant

Logo of the French RepublicFrom France to Europe:
The shift from Nationalism in French Discourse, 1900-1950

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Prof C Sowerwine

ARC Discovery Grant

Sketch of Royal Irish ConstabularyPolicing Ireland Under the Union:
A Social History

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Dr Elizabeth Malcolm

ARC Discovery Grant

Standing wheatRegional analysis of Soviet agricultural development, its natural determinants and changes in its ability to support the population, 1800-2000
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Prof Stephen Wheatcroft

ARC Discovery Grant

Australian World War I era propaganda cartoon by Norman Lindsay, circa 1915Reinventing Motherhood:
Women, breadwinning & childcare in Australia, 1880-1980

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Professor Patricia Grimshaw
Dr Shurlee Swain

ARC Discovery Grant

Adam von Trott zu Solz (Memorial to the German Resistance, Berlin)Subversion and Dissent in the Third Reich
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Dr Steven Welch

ARC Discovery Grant

Poster issued by the Government in Tasmania in picture form explaining equal justice for settlers and aboriginiesWhitewashing:
Miscenegation, Assimilation and Genocide in the United States and Australia, 1860s-1960s

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Dr Kat Ellinghaus

ARC Discovery Grant

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Grants awarded 2002

Title Researcher(s)/Grant type
'Farewell to Home': immigrants boarding a shipIntegrating history and archives management:
The Lena Santospirito manuscript collection on Italian immigrant settlement in post-war Australia

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Assoc Professor Alan Mayne

ARC Linkage Grant

Mount Alexander Goldfields cultural heritage project (phase 2).
Industry partner: Chinese Museum

Assoc Professor Alan Mayne

ARC Linkage Grant

Melbourne OnlineMelbourne online: a multimedia interpretation of city history and culture
(Industry Partners: Tourism Victoria, City Of Melbourne, Museum of Victoria)

Dr A Brown-May

ARC Linkage Grant

European Union flag France vs "Europe" in the French left between the wars
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Prof C Sowerwine

Melbourne Research Grant

Cover of 'Freud in the Antipodes' bookFreud in the Antipodes: A cultural history of psychoanalysis in Australia

Prof Joy Damousi

Melbourne Research Grant

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