Our academics have excelled with a range of achievements this month, including a Dean appointment and an Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship.
AWARDS
Dr Daozhi Xu has been awarded the Australian Historical Association's Allan Martin Award, for her research project 'Chinese Perspectives on Indigenous People in Chinese Australian Newspapers, 1894-1937'.The Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship awarded annually to assist early career historians further their research in Australian history.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Professor Lise Barry has been appointed as Dean, Macquarie Law School. For the last 4 years Lise has provided an exemplary service to the School in Deputy, Acting and Interim Dean positions. Lise joined MLS in 2005 from a professional background working in mediation and Youth Justice Conferencing and teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Legal Ethics and Alternative Dispute Resolution. Lise also provides advice and training to lawyers, mediators and other professionals working with older Australians.
Professor Diane Hughes, Discipline Chair of Creative Arts in MCCALL, has been awarded an Eccles Centre Visiting Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies at the British Library, which she plans to undertake in 2023. Her topic - The evolution of jazz and popular singing in twentieth-century Britain and the USA - forms part of her broader research on the singing voice.
MCCALL PhD student and associate member of the Centre for Media History, Stephen Vagg, has organised and co-produced the first Australian reading of Reunion Day, a play banned by Australian censors in 1961. The reading is also a tribute to the play’s 95-year-old writer, Peter Yeldham, one of Australia’s leading screenwriters of the twentieth century.