From two successful Fulbright Scholarships to an ARC Linkage Grant success, see where Faculty of Arts academics have been recognised this month.
GRANTS
Fulbright Scholarship success
Madi Day, Department of Indigenous Studies, has been awarded the Fulbright Sir John Carrick NSW Scholarship. Madi is a career researcher who works across Indigenous studies, trans studies and gender studies. Madi’s Fulbright research will offer a comparative study of coloniality, gender and heterosexuality across Australia and the United States of America as settler colonial nation states. The research will also examine how anti-colonial approaches are integrated into gender studies departments in the United States, and whether this could be improved in gender studies in Australia.
Associate Professor Courtney J. Fung, Department of Security Studies and Criminology, has been awarded the Fulbright Professional Scholarship in Australian-American Alliance Studies, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her research focuses on how rising powers address the norms and provisions for global governance and international security, with a primary focus on China. Courtney’s Fulbright research examines how Australia and the United States can best cooperate, as emerging powers reshape the United Nations agenda. Her work contributes to strengthening the Australia-U.S. Alliance, which is underpinned by a commitment to a robust United Nations.
ARC Linkage Grant success
Associate Professor Jessica McLean and Associate Professor Fiona Miller (School of Social Sciences) with Associate Professor Corinne Sullivan (WSU) and partners Lisa Menke (NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service) and Aleshia Lonsdale (Mudgee Local Aboriginal Land Council) have been granted $184,365 for their project ‘Storying and repairing water places in Wiradjuri Country’. This project will centre Aboriginal knowledges to story, care for and repair Wiradjuri Country around the Mudgee area, central west NSW.
Associate Professor Donna Houston (School of Social Sciences) is a Chief Investigator on a Linkage Project led by RMIT, ‘Extinction Imaginaries: Mapping Affective Visual Cultures in Australasia’. This project aims to provide NGOs with new strategies for raising awareness of environmental change by investigating what animal extinction means to Australians.
ACHIEVEMENTS
New book
Dr Neil Durrant, Faculty of Arts Executive Director and Adjunct Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, has released a new book titled ‘Nietzsche’s Renewal of Ancient Ethics: Friendship as Contest’. The publication connects different strands in Nietzsche studies to progress a unique interpretation of friendship in his writings. Exploring this alternative approach to Nietzsche's ethics through the influence of ancient Greek ideals on his ideas, Neil highlights the importance of contest for developing strong friendships.