2010 School achievements
School of History and Philosophy
Publications
In 2010, School researchers produced 10 books and 86 journal articles/book chapters. Key publications include:
Joanne Faulkner
Dead Letters to Nietzsche; or, the Necromantic Art of Reading Philosophy (Ohio University Press)
The Importance of Being Innocent: Why We Worry About Children (Cambridge University Press)
Lisa Ford
Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836 (Harvard University Press)
John Gascoigne
Science, Philosophy and Religion in the Age of the Enlightenment: British and Global Contexts (Ashgate)
Olivia Harvey
Beyond Technology and nature: Some historical and sociological reflections on the relationship between humans and machines (VDM Verlag)
Martyn Lyons
A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World (Palgrave Macmillan)
Michaelis Michael
"Belief De Re, Knowing Who, and Singular Thought" Journal of Philosophy 107 (6)
Paul Patton
Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, Politics (Stanford University Press)
Ian Tyrrell
Reforming the world: the creation of America's moral empire (Princeton University Press)
Grants awarded & in progress
Sean Brawley
ARC Discovery grant: Mrs O'Keefe and the battle for white Australia
Sean Brawley, Lisa Ford and Shawn Ross
ALTC Grant: After Standards: Engaging and embedding History's Standards using international best practice to inform curriculum renewal
Paul Brown
ALTC Distributed Leadership
Joanne Faulkner
ARC Discovery project: The Concept of Innocence and the Political Community: Australian identity and social health
Lisa Ford
ARC Discovery grant: Convicts, empire and order, 1783-1857
John Gascoigne
ARC Discovery project: Encountering the Pacific in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
Stephen Hetherington
ARC Discovery grant: Practicalism: Knowing and Agency
Simon Lumsden
ALTC with colleagues from Flinders University: Forward Thinking: teaching and learning in Philosophy in Australia
Martyn Lyons
ARC Discovery grant: Ordinary Writing Practices in the Transition to Mass Literacy in Europe, 1800–1918
Kama Maclean
Research Grant: Australia-India Institute
James Phillips
ARC Discovery project: Community and identity in post-war European Philosophy
Nicolas Rasmussen
ARC Discovery grant: researching the development of the first generation recombinant DNA
Mina Roces
US Studies Centre University of Sydney External Grant for "The Filipino American Movement 1970 – present"
Shawn Ross
Linkage grant for archaeological research in Italy and Bulgaria
Partner Investigator on The America for Bulgaria Foundation International Collaborative Archaeological & Bioarchaeological Research Program, for International collaborative archaeological and palaeoecological research in the Thracian Plain, Bulgaria
Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Study Overseas Short Term Mobility Program: Tundzha Regional Archaeological Project Bulgaria
Ian Tyrrell
ARC Discovery grant: The International Context of American Conservation Policy, c.1900–1920
Staff Recognition
Ruth Balint:
Awarded: The Ernst Keller European Humanities Travelling Fellowship of 2011 by the Australian Academy of Humanities
Visiting Fellow: National Film and Sound Archive
Lisa Ford
for Settler Sovereignty: Littleton-Grisworld Prize, American Historical Association, for the best book in any subject on the history of American law and society
for Settler Sovereignty: NSW Premier's Prize for best general history book
for Settler Sovereignty: Thomas J. Wilson Prize, Harvard University Press, for the best book in any field to be accepted for publication by Harvard University Press in 2008
John Gascoigne
Scientia Professor: UNSW
Julie Kalman
Rethinking anti-semitism in ninettenth century France (New York: Cambridge University Press), short-listed for Victorian Premiers' Prize
Grace Karskens
for The Colony, Prime Ministers' Literary Award for non-fiction
The Colony, short-listed for six prizes
Elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Keynote speaker: The Settler Revolution: a response, Australian Historical Association Conference
Keynote speaker: Lachlan and Elizabeth: the Power Couple of the 1810s, Macquarie Bicentenary, Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales and History Council of New South Wales
Martyn Lyons
Elected to a Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Cassis (France), September – December 2010
Keynote speaker: Helsinki Conference of Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
Kama MacLean
Appointed Editor, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies
for Pilgrimage and Power, Honourable Mention in the Coomaraswamy Prize
Anne O'Brien
Keynote panelist, History and Christianity, Divining the Past Conference, Robert Menzies College, Macquarie University
Mina Roces
Affiliated Fellowship "A History of Filipinio Migration and Identity, 1906-2010," at the International Institute of Asian Studies, The University of Leiden
Zora Simic
Elected to the executive of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association
Ian Tyrrell
Harold Vyvyan Harmosworth Professor of American History in the University of Oxford for 2010–2011
Professorial Fellow of the Queen's College, Oxford
Graduates achievements & Postgraduate completions
Craig Lundy (PhD): Deluze, history and Becoming Awarded FASS Best Doctoral Thesis Prize 2010
Iain Giblin (PhD): Music and the generative enterprise: situating a generative theory of tonal music in the cognitive sciences
Benedict Taylor (PhD): Prisons without walls: Prison camps and penal change in Australia, c. 1913-c. 1975
Larissa Johnson (PhD): Kaleidoscopic Natural Theology: The Dynamics of Natural Theological Discourse in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth-Century England
Simon Chapple (PhD): Law and Society Across the Pacific: Nevada County, California 1849-1860 and Gympie, Queensland 1867-1880
Sean Bowden (PhD): The ontological priority of events in Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense
Francesco Alafaci (PhD): The extreme right in Australia with particular reference to Protestant Christianity 1945 to 2001
Faye Brinsmead (PhD): Nietzsche's Conceptual Personae of Freedom
Academic conferences and seminars
2010 Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference
2010 Australasian Association for Logic Conference
2010 Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Association
Community, media & the profession
Peter Schrijvers
External Consultant for funding from the Arts and Heritage Section of the Flemish Ministry of Culture in cooperation with SOMA, Brussels, and the Dutch University of Masstricht
