2007-2008 APMC Fellows and Summer Scholars
Fellows
Three of the 2007-08 Fellows receive their awards.
Left to right: Ms Kate Cowie (OPH), Dr Margaret Simons, Dr David Lee,
Mr John Shortis, Ms Jenny Anderson (OPH)
Dr Stephen Casey
Visiting Professor in History, University of Hong Kong and 2008 Visiting Scholar at the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library.
Dr Stephen Casey will undertake research for a lecture on the 1944 meeting between Prime Minister John Curtin and President Franklin D. Roosevelt and discuss how this meeting was illustrative of the broader Australian–United States alliance during World War II.
Professor Marilyn Lake
Professor of Australian History, La Trobe University
Professor Marilyn Lake will research former prime minister Alfred Deakin’s diaries and letters as well as other documentary and pictorial evidence to produce an illustrated book on his overseas travels. Professor Lake will also demonstrate how these travels shaped Deakin’s sense of identity.
Dr David Lee
Director, Historical Publications and Information Section, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Dr David Lee will adopt a fresh interpretation of former prime minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce as a consistent internationalist in his full-scale biography of Bruce. Dr Lee also intends to write associated journal and newspaper articles on Bruce’s prime ministership.
Frank Moorhouse
Writer
Mr Frank Moorhouse will undertake research on three former prime ministers, Ben Chifley, Robert Gordon Menzies and Stanley Melbourne Bruce to provide background for the third novel in his historical League of Nations trilogy. This trilogy focuses on the fictitious Edith Campbell Berry who works for the League of Nations, and is backgrounded by the evolution of Australian international diplomacy.
John Shortis
Writer, musician, researcher and performer
Mr John Shortis will write and present a musical show about the political and human sides of eight of Australia’s lesser known prime ministers: Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, John Watson, George Reid, Andrew Fisher, Joseph Cook, Stanley Bruce and James Scullin.
Dr Margaret Simons
Freelance journalist and author
Dr Margaret Simons will draw on personal interviews and extensive archival research to produce a hybrid memoir/biography about former prime minister Malcolm Fraser.
Professor Paul t’Hart
Professor, Political Science Program, Research School of Social Sciences, ANU
Professor Paul t’Hart will draw on theories of political leadership to shed light on the leadership style and political performance of four Australian prime ministers who took office at a time of war abroad and/or domestic politico-economic crisis: Hughes, Scullin, Curtin and Hawke. Professor t’Hart will publish the results of his study in national and international scholarly journals.
Summer scholars
2007-08 Summer Scholars. Left to right Emma Williams, Ben Jones, Andrew Carr
The three summer scholars will spend 6 weeks in Canberra working on a project relating to development of the Gallery of Australian Democracy (working title)
Andrew Carr
Bachelor of Honours (Philosophy), University of Canberra.
Andrew’s current Honours research topic is ‘Freedom’s Untidy: Concepts of freedom and the Iraq war’.
Benjamin Jones
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Australian History, University of Western Sydney
Ben’s Honours thesis was entitled ‘The Slow March: A comparative analysis of the Australian republican movements of the 1850s and 1990s’.
Emma Williams
Master of Museum Studies, University of Sydney
Emma is currently studying for a Masters in Museum Studies by coursework. For her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree she submitted a thesis entitled ‘Local identity in Australian pop music scenes, 1962-1971’.
