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 just a few of the current ARC funded research projects underway in SOPHI (check our staff research pages to learn more).
ARC Indigenous Discovery Project
2012
| 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
2012
| 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
2011
| Name | Department | Project Title | Duration (years) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof Warwick Anderson | History | Southern racial conceptions: comparative histories and contemporary legacies | 5 |
ARC Discovery Projects
2011
| 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 |
2007
|
Name |
Department |
Title |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
|
A/Pro Alison Betts; Dr Peter Jia; Dr X Wu; Prof J P Mallory |
Archaeology |
East meets West: an archaeological study of early contact between China and Eurasia |
4 |
|
Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice |
History |
Understanding the concept and meaning of freedom in Western history |
4 |
|
Assoc Prof Chris Hilliard |
History |
Complex words; literary judgments in the British Commonwealth, 1920-1970 |
3 |
|
Dr Margaret Poulos |
History |
A new history of 1968: feminism and student revolt in the Colonel’s Greece (1967-1974) |
4 |
|
Prof Cassandra Pybus |
History |
Recovered lives as windows on the Anglo Colonial War, 1750-1850 |
5 |
2006
|
Name |
Department |
Title |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Prof Robert Aldrich |
History |
Province, nation, empire: France, 1871-1940 |
3 |
|
Dr Saliha Belmessous |
History |
Assimilation and empire |
3 |
|
Dr David Braddon-Mitchel; Dr Adina Roskies; Dr Uriah Kriegel; Dr Caroline West |
Philosophy |
Personal identity, consciousness and agency |
3 |
|
Dr Kate da Costa |
Archaeology |
Drawing the line: the archaeology of Roman provincial borders in Late Antique Palaestina and Arabia (AD 250-650) |
4 |
|
Prof Moira Gatens |
Philosophy |
George Eliot: literature as experimental philosophy |
5 |
|
Prof Catharine Lumby; Prof Elspeth Probyn; Dr J A O'Dea; Dr K M Albury |
Gender and Cultural Studies |
The well-rounded person: the role of sport in shaping physical, emotional an social development |
5 |
|
Mr Richard White |
History |
A cultural history of Australian motor travel overseas |
3 |
|
Prof Shane White |
History |
The making of black Manhattan |
5 |
2005
|
Name |
Department |
Title |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Dr Peter Anstey; Dr S A Harris |
Philosophy |
John Locke, botany and natural kinds |
3 |
|
Dr Alison Bashford |
History |
World Health: the intellectual history of a twentieth century idea |
3 |
|
Dr Alison Betts; Prof V N Yagodin |
Archaeology |
Chorasmian temples: an archaeological study of early Zoroastrianism and its precursors in Central Asia |
3 |
|
Dr Nicholas Eckstein |
History |
Renaissance Florence, 1400-1500 |
2 |
|
Dr Judith Field |
Archaeology |
First Australians, last megafauna? Modern approaches to a prehistoric puzzle |
5 |
|
Dr Andrew Fitzmaurice |
History |
State formation and European expansion |
2 |
|
Prof Roland Fletcher; Dr Dan Penny; A/Prof M F Barbetti; Dr C Pottier |
Archaeology |
Urban infrastructure, inertia and ecology: the growth and decline of Angkor, Cambodia (9th to 16th century AD) |
5 |
|
Dr Julia Horne; Prof G E Sherington |
History |
The public university in Australasia (1850-1918) |
3 |
|
Dr Bob Hudson |
Archaeology |
Early settlements in upper Burma (Myanmar): an experiment in urban living |
3 |
|
Prof Huw Price; Prof Jenann Ismael and Dr Guido Bacciagaluppi |
Philosophy |
Time and perspective in the quantum world |
5 |
|
Prof Elspeth Probyn; Dr J A O'Dea |
Gender and Cultural Studies |
Youth cultures of eating: a cultural analysis of youth obesity, gender, class, ethnicity and generation |
3 |
|
Dr Fiona Probyn |
Gender and Cultural Studies |
Whiteness: a genealogical study |
3 |
|
Prof Paul Redding |
Philosophy |
Idealism and the objectivity of norms and values: a neglected path from the 18th century |
3 |
|
Dr Penny Russell |
History |
A history of manners: savagery and civility in colonial Australia |
3 |
|
Prof Glenda Sluga |
History |
Nation, race, rights and the New World Order, 1945-1966 |
3 |
|
Prof Peter Wilson and Prof Eric Csapo |
Classics and Ancient History |
Accounting for the Ancient Theatre: a new social and economic history of Classical Greek |
5 |
ARC Linkage Projects
2007
|
Name |
Department |
Title |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Dr Ian Johnson; Dr Stephen Robertson. |
Archaeology; History |
Rethinking timelines: a new methodology for describing and communicating history |
5 |
|
A/Prof Catherine Lumby; Prof Elspeth Probyn; Dr Kath Albury; Dr Clifton Evers |
UNSW; Gender and Cultural Studies; UNSW; UNSW |
Peer based mentoring in sport: strategies for best practice |
4 |
2005
|
Name |
Department |
Title |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Dr Fiona Cameron; Prof E A Edmonds; Prof Stephen Garton; Mr K S Sumption |
History |
Reconceptualising heritage collections: multidisciplinary approaches to museum collections and documentation |
3 |
|
Prof Stephen Garton; Dr P Ashton; Dr S H Fitzgerald; Dr Ian Johnson; Mr RH Coleman |
History; Archaeology |
The Dictionary of Sydney: delivering the city's digital multimedia resources to the wider community |
6 |
ARC Federation Fellows*
2007
|
Name |
Department |
Title |
Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Prof Huw Price |
Philosophy |
A practical theory of factual information: fundamentals and applications in philosophy and physics |
5 |
* Prof Iain McCalman, Deptartment of History, was a Federation Fellow; the fellowship expired end 2007.