Arts research strengths
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Greg Barton |
Adrian Martin |
Pascaline Winand |
Maria Nugent |
Monash Arts has established a worldwide reputation in research. Here are some examples of ground breaking research and our latest activities.
Professor Bill Kent
Professor Bill Kent of the School of Historical Studies has received a grant of AU$300,000 from US-based philanthropic organisation the Andrew W Mellon Foundation to oversee an international project to publish a 20-volume set of letters by 15th century ruler ‘Lorenzo The Magnificent’ of Florence.
The Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation has received substantial funding from private benefactors to establish two research chairs, positioning it to join the world’s leaders in Jewish academic research. Donations from the Victor Smorgon Charitable Fund will establish the Research Chair in Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture and the Bori and Helen Liberman family have donated to establish a Research Chair in Jewish Thought and Literature.
Greg Barton
Greg Barton directs the newly formed Centre for Islam and the Modern World (CIMOW). CIMOW researchers seek to better understand the evolving dynamics linking Islam, modernity and the modern nation state. They seek to employ empathetic social science approaches to understanding contemporary Islamic thought and Muslim societies and to exploring the complex relationship between the religious, the cultural and the political in democratic societies as diverse as Australia, Indonesia and Turkey. CIMOW is intended to be place in which Muslim and non-Muslim researchers, writers and teachers, both from Australia and around the world, can come together to work in a positive, collegial environment that respects difference and diversity and values synergistic collaboration and learning.
Dr Adrian Martin
Internationally regarded film critic Dr Adrian Martin has joined the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies. Dr Martin is an award-winning journalist, author and has worked for The Age newspaper as a film reviewer. In 1993 he won the Australian Film Institute’s Byron Kennedy Award and, in 1997, was awarded the Pascall Prize for Critical Writing in recognition of his work as a film reviewer and writer on popular culture.
Professor Pascaline Winand
Professor Pascaline Winand joins the Faculty of Arts as professor and inaugural director of the newly established Monash European and EU Centre. She is highly regarded in Europe and the US for her expertise on the European Union’s external relations and the history of European integration and transatlantic relations. The Victorian State Government has provided funding of $1.2 million to establish the Global Terrorism Research Centre in the Faculty of Arts. The centre will work with similar centres in Australia and around the world to research the social forces behind terrorism.
Maria Nugent
Maria Nugent, a lecturer in Australian and Aboriginal history, won the 2006 NSW Premier’s Community Regional Prize for her book Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet. The book was described by the judges as “an original and sophisticated contribution to Australian history and its construction.”
View a list of our academic staff and their supervision areas on the supervision page.
View a list of academic schools and centres offering research programs in a number of disciplines on the research areas page.