ACIH Research Projects & Grants
Beyond Reconciliation Grand Challenge
The call for a thorough-going process of truth-telling about – and not merely reconciliation with – Australia’s past is growing louder and more urgent. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across the country demand the right to tell their own histories. Beyond Reconciliation: Truth-Telling for Indigenous Wellbeing and the Health of...
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia: New funding for the ACIH and the National Centre for Indigenous Studies at the ANU
(image by Stella Bowen, Private, Gowrie House, Oil on hardboard, 11 June 1945 AWM, ART26277)
Serving our country: a history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the defence of Australia was awarded more than $1 million as part of the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects funding, a scheme designed to support collaborative...
Hidden Histories of the Pilbara
(Photo: Allbrook 2012)
In 2011, Dr Malcolm Allbrook and Dr Mary Anne Jebb, of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the ANU, were awarded a research grant by AIATSIS to conduct part two of the ‘Hidden Histories of the Pilbara’ project in association with Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre, a community based organisation...
Australia's Ancient and Recent Pasts: A History of the Willandra Lakes
In August 2011, Professor Ann McGrath started work on a three year ARC Discovery project which aims to forge innovative approaches to writing deep time history. With Research Associate Dr Malcolm Allbrook, Professor McGrath will examine the history of research in the internationally significant Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area in western New...
Exploring the Middle Ground: New Histories of Cross-Cultural Encounters in Australian Maritime and Land Exploration
Shino Konishi and Maria Nugent, along with Tiffany Shellam (a PhD graduate from ACIH, now lecturer at Deakin University), have received an ARC Discovery Project Grant (DP110100931) for a three-year project that seeks to reinvigorate Australian exploration history through the lens of cross-cultural relations and encounters. The research will bring...
The Queen gave us the Land: Aboriginal people's histories and memories of Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria is a potent figure in Aboriginal people's histories and memories. Maria Nugent recently received an ARC Discovery Project grant (DP110100230) to examine Aboriginal people's interactions with Queen Victoria during her reign in the nineteenth century, and the stories they have told and the claims they have made about her ever since....
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Defence Service History Project
This twelve month pilot project will involve conducting research on the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's involvement in Australia's defence services, across the major conflicts and in peacetime operations. Funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs in collaboration with the ANU National Centre for Indigenous Studies and...
