PhD candidate in History, Jacqui Donegan, has won a prestigious fellowship to Harvard University.  Jacqui, who holds a Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship for Doctoral Study at the ANU, will take up the Alfred D. Chandler Jnr. Travel Fellowship at Harvard Business School later this year.  Since 1991 the fellowship has been offered to enable graduate students in history or related disciplines to go to Harvard - and Harvard students to go elsewhere - for research in business history or institutional economic history.  Her research at the Harvard libraries will explore the active association between Australian and American food manufacturers in the early 20th century, especially those seeking alternatives to sugar.  She will research at Harvard's Baker, Widener and Law School libraries. Jacqui's PhD thesis, 'The Confectionary Kings: Robertson, Allen and Hoadley, 1890-1930' is due for completion next year.

The Eric Fry Scholarship for 2011 has been awarded to Scott Stephenson, an Honours student in the School of History.  Scott's research topic is the relationship between the Australian Workers Union (AWU) and Lang Labor in NSW between the wars.  There is a body of literature on J.T. Lang's relationship within the New South Wales Labor Party but relatively little work, however, on the relationship between the NSW Right and the unions.  The Noel Butlin Archives Centre (NBAC) holds over 60 metres of AWU records which will be the major component of Scott's thesis.  The Eric Fry scholarship is sponsored by the Canberra Region Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH) and the National Institute for Social Sciences and Law at ANU and is open to any student enrolled in an honours or postgraduate degree at an Australian university, or university in New Zealand, PNG, Timor, L'Este or Fiji to research at the NBAC.  It honours the contribution of Dr Eric Fry (1921-2007) to labour history as Senior Lecturer in History from 1959 and as Reader 1967-1986 at the ANU and as a founder and office-bearer of the ASSLH.