School of Historical Studies News Archive
New ePress Book Revisits Jackson's Track
Monash University ePress has published Jackson's Track Revisited: History, Remembrance and Reconciliation - a new book by School of Historical Studies Honorary Associate Ms Carolyn Landon. Read more
Nick Dyrenfurth wins Arts Postgraduate Publications Award
Nick Dyrenfurth, who is completing his PhD in the school, has won the Faculty of Arts Postgraduate Publications Award for 2006
Associate Professor Constant Mews elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Associate Professor Constant Mews has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. This award recognizes the highest distinction in scholarship in the Humanities.
Bain Attwood has been elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Associate Professor Bain Attwood has joined several colleagues in the School as a fellow of this academy. For more information, see http://www.monash.edu.au/news/monashmemo/stories/20061213/humanities.html
Maria Nugent wins New South Wales Premier's History Award
Dr Maria Nugent has won the New South Wales Premier's Community and Regional History Prize for 2006. For more information, see http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/awards/HistoryAwards/2006HistoryAwds/2006HistAwards.htm
Shs and Brepols - International Scholarly Publishers
Four members of the SHS staff are now on the editorial board of Brepols (Turnhout, Belgium). This major publisher specializes in patristic, medieval and renaissance studies. Professor Bill Kent is the chair and other members are Professor David Garrioch, Dr Peter Howard and Associate Professor Constant Mews. Forthcoming monographs include books from two of Monash trained scholars, Cecilia Hewlitt and Bella D'Abrera.
Associate Professor Constant Mews is also chair for another Brepols series, Medieval Women Texts and Contexts, a series devoted to works for and about, as well as by, medieval women.
Biographers SHS- Establishment of the 'Gabs'
Last November Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt and Barbara Caine established a group of auto/biographical scholars (GABS). If you are working on issues relating to auto/biography and would like to join GABS or be put on the email-list, please contact Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt.
Dr Peter Howard Made Founding Officer of the Aeuifai
Dr Peter Howard has been made the founding public officer of the Australian European University Institute Fellowships Association Inc. This high level research institute based in Florence offers scholarships to Australian postgraduate students and academics.
Cecilia Hewlett Receives Commendation
The School would like to congratulate Cecilia Hewlett for receiving the Vice-Chancellor's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence for her thesis "Rual Communities and Renaissance Florence, autonomy and independence, 1480-1550"
Research Chair for Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation
We are pleased to announce that the Australian Centre for the Study of Jewish Civilisation has received an endowment to establish a research Chair, the first such Chair at Monash University. The endowment was made by Ms Lee Liberman in honour of her late husband and is to be known as the Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies. [more ]
ePress, Monash's Electronic Publishing Service
Monash University's electronic publishing service, ePress, was launched this week to an enthusiastic reception at Clayton campus.
The ePress was set up in 2003 to streamline and promote academic publishing. The first four ePress titles - three online journals and a book - have been released as part of the launch. Two of these publications have been edited by members of the school of Historical Studies: The Bible and Critical Theory - a new online journal edited by Dr Roland Boer, Logan Fellow at Monash's Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology, and History Australia - the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, edited by Professor Marian Quartly, Monash's School of Historical Studies. [more ]
Bain Attwood Awarded Prize
Associate Professor Bain Attwood from Monash's School of Historical Studies has been awarded a $15,000 prize in the New South Wales Premier's History Awards for his book Rights for Aborigines.
Graeme Davison has won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award
Graeme Davison has won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction for his book Car Wars.
ARC Grants
The School had an outstanding success in the last round of ARC Discovery Grants. We had an 80% success rate - way above the national average. We are very pleased to announce that the following people were successful in their applications for Discovery Grants:
- Attwood, B: A matter of history: possession, colonialism and Batman's treaties
- Boer, R: Political Myth and the Bible: Critical Theory, Politics and the Problem of Mythic Narrative in the Bible
- Brodie, M: Transportation and Transformation: How Local Conditions Changed Traditional Ideas into Modern Politics
- Copland, I: Religion and Governance in India, c.1000-2000 CE
- Garrioch, D: The growth of toleration in a cosmopolitan society: Protestants in eighteenth-century Paris
- Kent, F: Lorenzo de Medici and Renaissance Italy
- Mews, C: Experience versus authority: science, musical theory and observation in Grocheo's De Musica and intellectual upheaval in the 13th century.
- Hau, M: High Performance in Elite Sports: A Cultural History of Medicine, Psychology, and Society during the Weimar Republic and Nazism, 1918-1945
ePress Publications
Monash University ePress, Monash's
first electronic press, published its first two online titles on
30 November.
The titles are The Bible and Critical
Theory, edited by Dr Roland Boer,
Logan Fellow at Monash's Centre for Studies in Religion and Theology,
and History Australia, edited by Professor
Marian Quartly from the School of Historical Studies.[more
]
Professor David Garrioch promoted
Professor David Garrioch has been promoted from Associate Professor.
Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grants
Dr Emma Christopher, Dr Carolyn James, Dr Seamus O'Hanlon and Dr Tamara Prosic have been awarded Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grants worth $539K to the School.
Graeme Davison and the Australian Dictionary of Biography
Graeme Davison, a Sir John Monash distinguished Professor, has contributed to a successful bid for funding for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Associate Professor Constant Mews elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Associate Professor Constant Mews has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. This award recognizes the highest distinction in scholarship in the Humanities.
Bree Carlton awarded Traveling Fellowship
Bree Carlton, who recently completed her PhD in the school, has been awarded a Traveling Fellowship from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, which will allow her to undertake research in Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom on women and political imprisonment.
Rachel Buchanan wins Arts Postgraduate Publications Award
Rachel Buchanan, who also recently completed her PhD in the school, has won an Arts Postgraduate Publications Award.