David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellowship
The principal purpose of the David Scott Mitchell Fellowship is to encourage and support the use of the Mitchell Library's collections for the study and research of Australian history in writing and publication amongst scholars, researches and the wider community, including internationally.
Hail Fellows, well met: A night with the Library Fellows
Three Library fellows presented a fascinating night of learning about a diverse range of research and ideas.
Wednesday 16 November 2011
Watch the video of Craig Munro (David Scott Mitchell Fellow 2009) discussing the life of editor, publisher and literary journalist A.G.Stephens (1865-1933).
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Watch the video of Michael Davis (David Scott Mitchell Fellow 2008) talking about the study of European representations of Aboriginal cultural heritage.
Winners
2011
Dr Gareth Knapman. Gareth's for his project ‘Conciliating exchanges: Mapping the politics of trading between Aboriginal peoples and settlers in nineteenth-century South Eastern Australia’. Gareth describes his project as about looking at the 'Aboriginal agency through the production of objects for sale within nineteenth century intellectual networks. Aboriginal agency argues that Aboriginal people had a voice and were trying to present that voice through material culture. This voice however was lost through the politics of colonial intellectual networks’.
2010
Amanda Kaladelfos for her project, Citizens of Mercy: Bushrangers, Punishment and Public Opinion in colonial NSW, which examines popular conceptions of crime, punishment and justice during the later colonial period. Her project will look at the way ordinary citizens conceived of justice and law, by examining the vigorous protests and organized opposition to the sentence of capital punishment – particularly as applied to bushrangers– during this period.
2009
Dr Craig Munro for his project, a biography of editor, publisher and literary journalist A.G. Stephens. There has not been a biography of this highly influential late 19th-early 20th century literary figure, who is most famously associated with the ‘Red Page’ of The Bulletin. Dr Munro is an accomplished researcher in Australian literary history, most notably for his work on PR Stephensen, his biography of whom was first published in 1984. The Stephens material in the Mitchell Library is extensive and important.
2008
Mr Michael Davis will focus on the history of European representations of Aboriginal art and heritage. This work centres on the papers of influential anthropologist and archaeologist Fred McCarthy. Davis's study is interested in the way mid-twentieth Europeans, particularly academics, curators and anthropologists, have depicted and written about Aboriginal culture.
