Membership and Administration
| Sponsoring Schools | Administrative Location | Membership | Founding Members | SARU Directors | Advisory Board |
Sponsoring Schools
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
School of Music-Conservatorium
Administrative Location
The Social Aesthetics Research Unit is administratively located in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies (ECPS).
Membership
SARU includes members from across the sponsoring Schools, the Faculty of Arts and other Faculties at Monash University, as well as National and International Associate members.
Founding Members
The list of Founding Members includes:
- Doctor Janine Burke (PSI)
- Doctor Maryrose Casey (ECPS)
- Doctor Elizabeth Coleman (ECPS)
- Doctor Joel Crotty (Music)
- Doctor Franz-Josef Deiters (LCL)
- Doctor Thomas Ford (ECPS)
- Doctor Axel Fliethmann (LCL)
- Doctor Eduardo de la Fuente (ECPS)
- Doctor Jane Montgomery Griffiths (LCL)
- Associate Professor Robin Gerster (ECPS)
- Doctor Stuart Grant (ECPS)
- Associate Professor Gil-Soo Han (ECPS)
- Doctor Shane Homan (ECPS)
- Doctor Made Hood (Music)
- Professor Margaret Kartomi (Music)
- Mrs Bronia Kornhauser (Music)
- Associate Professor Peter Murphy (ECPS)
- Doctor Will Peterson (ECPS)
- Doctor Thomas Reiner (Music)
- Doctor Andy Ruddock (ECPS)
- Doctor Graeme Smith (Music)
- Associate Professor Peter Snow (ECPS)
- Doctor Paul Watt (Music)
- Associate Professor Craig de Wilde (Music)
HDR candidates connected with the Unit are eligible to be Associate Members of SARU.
Research Associates
Doctoral Affiliates
TBA
SARU Directors
- Director: Associate Professor Peter Murphy (ECPS)
- Director: Associate Professor Peter Snow (ECPS)
- Deputy Director: Doctor Graeme Smith (Music)
- Deputy Director: Doctor Eduardo de la Fuente (ECPS)
SARU Executive
- Janine Burke
- Elizabeth Coleman
- Eduardo de la Fuente
- Stuart Grant
- Shane Homan
- Andrew Milner
- Peter Murphy
- Andy Ruddock
- Graeme Smith
- Peter Snow
Advisory Board
Foundation Advisors: Professor Andrew Benjamin (CLCS) and Emeritus Professor David Roberts (German and CLCS)
Music, Culture and Society Management Committee
The Music Culture and Society Management Committee was created in 2008 to organize an annual national conference or seminar. The members of the Committee are:
- Joel Crotty (Music, Monash University)
- Eduardo de la Fuente (Communications and Media Studies, Monash University)
- Stuart Grant (Doctorama and Theatre Studies, Monash University)
- Shane Homan (Communications and Media Studies, Monash University)
- Made Hood (Music, Monash University)
- Margaret Kartomi (Music, Monash University)
- Peter Murphy (Communications and Media Studies, Monash University)
- John Rundell (Ashworth Progam in Social Theory, University of Melbourne)
- Rebecca Do Rozario (English, Monash University)
- Graeme Smith (Music, Monash University)
- Alison Tokita (Japanese Studies, Monash University)
- Craig de Wilde (Music, Monash University)
- Chris Worth (Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University)
Chair of the Committee (2008-2009): Eduardo de la Fuente.