School of History PhD student, Laura Rademaker, has been awarded the National Library of Australia's Norman McCann Scholarship for a tenure at the Library in Summer 2013. Rademaker will use the time to interogate the collection's documentation on the Anindilyakwa language and culture as part of her research on the missions on Groote Eylandt.

The scholarship announcement follows a spate of successes for Rademaker, who was recently awarded the ANU Postgraduate Vice Chancellor's Reconciliation Award for her essay about the connections between land rights and language rights and how, as an historian, part of acknowledging the existence and validity of Aboriginal languages is to acknowledge their part in Australian history.

Rademaker was also recently awarded a Northern Territory History Grant through the Northern Territory Government. The grant will support Rademaker's research into the use of languages at Aboriginal missions on Groote Eylandt under assimilation policy.  

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