Nancy Keesing AM Fellowship

Dr Neil James, for his project: The A&R Century: A history of Angus and Robertson. The project is based on the Library’s extensive A&R archives, and seeks to explain how the publisher both reflected and shaped Australian culture and identity. The project engages with the contemporary academic interest in book history, and builds on a strong foundation of A&R scholarship. 

Dr Anne Jamison, for her project: "The enjoyment of a good story": Gender and Australian national identity in Catherine Helen Spence's literature for Children. This project highlighted Helen Spence's active participation in the development of Australian national identity in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, a key period of heightened cultural nationalism in Australia, alongside her advocacy of women's emancipation.  

Mr Blake Singley,  for his project: Selling the Modern Housewife: Cookbooks, gender and consumption in Australia. This project looked beyond recipes and cooking to their reflection on contemporaneous society. The Library has a rich collection of cookbooks, particularly the John Hoyle Cookery Collection, this project provided an innovative prism with which to view them.

Dr Nicola Teffer, for her project: Big River: Representations of Aborigines and Europeans on the Clarence River Frontier, 1864-1900. This project looked at photographic images of the Gumbainggir people and settlers made by three German photographers – Conrad Wagner, JW Lindt, and Carl Ehlers – and sought to understand their specific geographic and historical context.

Dr Roger Osborne, for his project: A Material and Textual Story of Joseph Furphy's "Such is Life": towards an electronic edition of an Australian classic. 

Dr Melanie Swalwell, for her project: The Production and Reception of Computer Games in the 1980s. 

Dr Amanda Card, for her project: The Tempo of Criticism: an exploration of the writings of Jean Garling as a dance critic. 

Dr Jill Matthews, for her project: Hidden Treasures of the Mitchell Library Periodicals, 1900-1930. 

Dr Caroline Jones, for her project: George Robertson and his Contribution to National Cultural Identity. 

Dr Patty O'Brien, for her project: Post-World War Two Colonial Attitudes in Papua New Guinea.

Dr Maxine Darnell, for her project: A History of Indentured Chinese Labourers in New South Wales. 

Dr Ragbir Bhathal, for his project: A Biography of the Nineteenth-Century Astronomer John Tebbutt. 

Meg Stewart, for her project: An Overview of the Literary  Papers of Nancy Keesing and a New Compilation of Poems.