Research Grants within the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
SOPHI is a leading centre for research in the Humanities in Australia and our staff regularly receive highly competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) grants and fellowships. We attract a considerable number of ARC funded postdoctoral fellows who are keen to work with our continuing staff, and we are home to over 250 PhD students. Here are the current ARC funded research projects underway in SOPHI (check our staff research pages to learn more).
2013
ARC Discovery Projects
| Name | Department | Project Title | Duration (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Robert Aldrich | History | Banishing potentates: European colonialists and indigenous rules in the British and French overseas empires | 3 |
| Assoc Prof Alison Betts,Prof Frantz Grenet and Prof N Vadim | Archaeology | Kingship, art and cult practice: decoding symbolism in an ancient Central Asian royal city | 3 |
|
Prof Sheila Fitzpatrick and Prof Mark Edele |
History | War and displacement: from the Soviet Union to Australia in the wake of the Second World War | 3 |
| Prof Paul Griffiths | Philosophy | A methodological analysis of the application of evolutionary medicine to non-communicable diseases | 2 |
| Assoc Prof Michael McDonnell, Dr Clare Corbould and Prof William Brundage |
History | The revolution in Black American life: memory and history in the making of African America | 3 |
| Ms Frances Muecke and Dr Maurizio Cambanelli | Classics and Ancient History | The invention of Rome: Biondo Flavio's Roma triumphans and its worlds | 3 |
| Prof Peter Read, Dr Elizabeth Rechniewski, Dr Marivic Wyndham, Assoc Prof Judith Keene and Prof Adrian Vickers | History | Judging the past in a post-cold War world | 3 |
| Prof Paul Redding | Philosophy | Analysis in the idealist tradition: the development of Leibniz's analytic method by Kant and Hegel and its implications for contemporary philosophy | 3 |
| Prof Shane White | History | The Prince of Darkness: Wall Street's first black millionaire |
DECRA
| Name | Department | Project Title | Duration (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Jodi Frawley |
Gender and Cultural Studies |
Shoal waters: estuary histories, local knowledge and sustainable fishing in Eastern Australia | 3 |
2012
ARC Indigenous Discovery Project
| Name | Department | Project Title | Duration (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Victoria Grieves |
Gender and Cultural Studies |
More than family history: race, gender and the Aboriginal family in Australian history |
3 |
ARC Discovery Projects
| Name | Department | Project Title | Duration (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Assoc Prof Rick Benitez; Dr Julia Kindt; Assoc Prof Dirk C Baltzly, ; Dr Marguerite Johnson; Prof Harold A Tarrant |
Philosophy, Classics and Ancient History |
Plato's myth voice: the identification and interpretation of 'inspired speech' in Plato | 3 |
|
Prof Mark Colyvan |
Philosophy | Mathematical notation: a philosophical account | 3 |
|
Emeritus Prof Roy MacLeod |
History | The Mineral factor: strategic minerals, imperial resources and global politics (1895-1995) | 3 |
|
Prof Meg Miller; Dr Lesley Beaumont; Dr Stavros A Paspalas |
Archaeology | Settlement sustainability and societal change in the ancient Mediterranean: the case of Zagora | 3 |
|
Dr Kane Race |
Gender and Cultural Studies | Changing spaces of HIV prevention: a cultural analysis of transformations in sexual sociability | 3 |
| Assoc Prof Penny Russell; Prof Nigel Worden | History | Empires of honour: violence and virtue in colonial societies, 1750-1850 | 3 |
| Prof Warwick Anderson; Prof Ian MacKay | History | Disease and the modern self: becoming autoimmune | 3 |
ARC Australian Laureate Fellowship
| Name | Department | Project Title | Duration (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Warwick Anderson | History | Southern racial conceptions: comparative histories and contemporary legacies | 5 |
2011
ARC Discovery Projects
| Name | Department | Title | Duration (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Dougald J O'Reilly, Dr Louise G Shewan, Dr Damian H Evans, Dr Kathryn M Domett, Prof Charles F Higham, Prof Elizabeth (Lisa) A Matisoo-Smith, Dr Thomas F Higham, Dr Sian E Halcrow, Dr Thomas O Pryce, Prof Rethy Chhem | Archaeology | From Paddy to Pura: the origins of Angkor | 3 |
| Prof Iain D McCalman | History | Redeeming the Great Barrier Reef. Science, romanticism and indigenous knowledge in the cultural and ecological history of the reef, c.1850-1950 | 3 |
| Dr Kirsten E McKenzie | History | Personal liberty, British identity and surveillance in the antipodes, 1780s - 1830s | 3 |
| Prof Cassandra J Pybus, Dr Kit Candlin | History | Enterprising women: race, gender and power in the revolutionary Atlantic, 1770-1820 | 4 |
| Prof Shane White, A/Prof Stephen M Robertson, Prof Stephen R Garton | History | Year of the riot: Harlem, 1935 | 5 |
| Prof David Braddon-Mitchell, Dr Kristie L Miller | Philosophy | A theory of theory choice | 5 |
| Prof Paul Thom | Philosophy | Critical edition of Robert Kilwardby's commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics, with historical / philosophical introduction and analytical notes | 2 |
2010
| Name | Department | Title | Duration (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Roland Fletcher; Prof J Riegel; Dr B Li; A/Prof C Pottier; Prof M Stark; Dr JN Miksic; Dr C Ang | Archaeology | Greater Angkor from ancestry to abandonment: the growth, daily life and transformation of the suburbs of Angkor | 5 |
| Dr Martin Gibbs | Archaeology | Beyond the New World: A 16th century Spanish colony and its impact on indigenous populations in the Solomon Islands | 3 |
| Prof EG Csapo; Prof PJ Wilson; Em/Prof JR Green; Dr EG Robinson; Dr SG Nervegna | Classics and Ancient History | The Theatrical Revolution: The Expansion of Theatre Outside Athens | 5 |
| Dr Andrew Hartwig | Classics and Ancient History | Plato Comicus and Greek comedy: a study of his dramatic career | 4 |
| Dr Emma Cristopher | History | Slavery, freedom and colonial development: Robert Bostock and his legacy | 5 |
| Dr James Curran | History | Australian/American relations in the era of the new nationalism | 3 |
| Assoc Prof Chris Hilliard | History | The politics of reading: Citizenship, law, and literacy in England, 1867-1960 | 5 |
| Dr Martin Thomas; A/Prof LM Barwick; Prof AJ Marett | History | Intercultural inquiry in a transnational context: Exploring the legacy of the 1948 American Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land | 5 |
| Mr Richard White | History | Touring the past: tourism and history in Australia 1850-2010 | 3 |
| Dr Natalya Lusty; Dr HG Groth | Gender and Cultural Studies | Dreams: A Cultural History, 1840-1940 | 3 |
| Prof Stephen Gaukroger; Dr Anik Waldow | Philosophy | The rise of empiricism and the attempt to produce a unified understanding of the world, 1680-1750 | 3 |
2009
|
Name |
Department |
Title |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr T E Doelman; Dr P Jia | Archaeology | Crossing Borders: The Use and Distribution of Volcanic Glass Artefacts in Northeast Asia | 2 |
| Dr MJ Hendrickson; Dr C Pottier; Prof Dr HJ Leisen; Dr DE Cook; Dr Q Hua (APD Dr MJ Hendrickson) | Archaeology | Industries of Angkor: Material Production and the Decline of the Khmer Empire (11th to 15th centuries CE) | 3 |
| Dr D O'Reilly; Dr RA Armstrong; Dr KM Domett; Dr LG Shewan; Prof CF Higham; Prof R Chhem; Dr N Beavan Athfield; Dr C Pottier | Archaeology | History in their bones: A diachronic, bioarchaeological study of diet, mobility and social organisation from Cambodian skeletal assemblages | 3 |
| Prof DT Potts (APF) | Archaeology | From village to empire in the Zagros highlands: Archaeological investigations at Tole Nurabad (Fars Province, Iran) |
5 |
| Dr R Torrence; Mrs NA Kononenko; Dr EA Carter (APD Mrs NA Kononenko) | Archaeology | Valuing Stones: obsidian stemmed tools in the creation of social complexity in Papua New Guinea | 4 |
| Dr CA Driscoll; Dr K Bowles; Prof K Darian Smith; A/Prof CR Gibson; Dr D Nichols; A/Prof G Waitt | Gender and Cultural Studies | Cultural sustainability in Australian country towns: amenity, mobility, and everyday life | 3 |
| Prof EC Probyn | Gender and Cultural Studies | Taste and Place: the transglobal production and consumption of food and drink |
3 |
| Prof WH Anderson; Dr RL Jones (APD Dr RL Jones) | History | Anatomies of Empire: Race, Evolution and Scientific Networks in the Twentieth Century British World | 3 |
| A/Prof AC Bashford; Dr J McAdam; Dr SS Amrith | History | Immigration Restriction and the Racial State, c. 1880 to the present | 4 |
| Dr MA McDonnell | History | Charles Langlade, the Anishinaabeg, and the making and unmaking of the Atlantic World | 3 |
| Dr AD Moses | History | Genocide: Critical History of an Idea | 3 |
| Prof CJ Pybus; Prof RL Isaac; Prof I Berlin; Prof OV Burton; Prof J Sidbury | History | Interrogating the Book of Negroes: explorations of slavery and freedom in the Atlantic world in the era of the American Revolution. | 1 |
| Prof PJ Read (APF) | History | A history of Aboriginal Sydney since 1788 | 5 |
| Prof GA Sluga | History | The International History of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism, 1814-1822 | 4 |
| Prof SW Gaukroger (APF) | Philosophy | Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1690-1755 | 5 |
| Dr KL Miller | Philosophy | Fundamental Ways the World Could Be: Challenging Metaphysical Orthodoxy | 3 |
| Prof PM Redding; Dr PD Bubbio (APD Dr PD Bubbio) | Philosophy | The God of Hegel's PostKantian Idealism | 4 |
| Dr JS Wilkins; Prof PE Griffiths (APD Dr JS Wilkins) | Philosophy | Contemporary scientific explanations of religion: A methodological and philosophical analysis | 3 |
| Dr D Rickles (ARF) | Philosophy | The Development of Quantum Gravity | 5 |
2008
|
Name |
Department |
Title |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Prof Warwick Anderson |
History |
Reproductive frontiers: the 20th century sciences of human hybridity |
3 |
|
A/Prof Alison Betts; Prof V NYagodin; Dr Fiona Kidd |
Archaeology |
A study of a newly discovered corpus of early Central Asian wall paintings |
4 |
|
Dr Melissa Carter |
Archaeology |
With or without pots: investigating the archaeology of human settlement on Santa Isobel, western Solomon Islands |
4 |
|
Dr Emma Christopher; Dr M S Delofski; Prof P E Lovejoy |
History |
Sierra Leone and Australia: a case of the vanishing twin |
3 |
|
Prof Mark Colyvan |
Philosophy |
Ethics and formal theories of decision |
3 |
|
Dr Nicholas Eckstein |
History |
The anatomy and physiology of Renaissance Florence: the dynamics of social change in the 15th century |
3 |
|
Dr Damien Evans |
Archaeology |
Hydraulic systems and state development in early Cambodia: mapping the engineered landscapes of the Khmer using remote sensing |
3 |
|
Prof Paul Griffiths; Dr Karola Stotz |
Philosophy |
Postgenomic perspectives on human nature |
5 |
|
Prof Duncan Ivison |
Philosophy |
The uneasy alliance between democracy and justice |
4 |
|
Prof Huw Price; Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi; Dr M A Schlosshauer |
Philosophy |
Time-asymmetry and the Bohmian view of the quantum world |
3 |
|
Dr Stephen Robertson |
History |
Private eyes and ears: covert surveillance in American life, 1865-1941 |
3 |
|
Dr Nicholas J J Smith |
Philosophy |
A computational solution to the problem of reference |
3 |