The Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the School of History, Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU, has had outstanding success in the latest ARC round, gaining three ARC Discovery grants and as one of the Chief Investigators in a large Linkage grant. The three Discovery grants amount to total research funding of $690,000 and a 100% success rate.

Its Director, Professor Ann McGrath, will work with CI Professor Peter Veth of ANU’s National Centre for Indigenous Studies on The Two Lakes Project, an innovative research collaboration bringing together archaeology and history in a major study of two of Australia’s most ancient inhabited landscapes. This is the largest grant awarded this year in the Research School of Social Sciences.

ACIH Research Fellow Dr Maria Nugent will research Aboriginal people’s histories and memories of Queen Victoria. ACIH Research Fellow Dr Konishi will lead a project entitled ‘Exploring the middle ground: new histories of cross-cultural encounters in Australian maritime and land exploration’ in collaboration with Dr Nugent and ACIH’s first Doctoral graduate, Dr Tiffany Shellam, whose first book was shortlisted for major prizes this year.

This tops off a very successful year last year, where the ACIH was awarded funding for a major Linkage project (McGrath, Konishi and Adjunct Profesor Peter Read) and Dr Konishi was awarded a Discovery Indigenous Researchers Development grant.

The Australian Centre for Indigenous History has three academic staff and an ARC Future Fellow.

Details of grants, funding and summaries are available on our research grants page.