National Museum of Australia Student Prize 2011
The National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science through its National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science invite submissions for the 2011 National Museum of…
2010 PhD submissions and Graduation
Congratulations to Christine Hansen who graduated in the July conferring of degrees ceremony. 2010 Submissions The following students have submitted their thesis for examination: Ingereth Macfarlane,…
School of History Co-location Complete
The School of History has completed the moving process that has consolidated two History departments (RSSS and the Faculty of Arts) into one. The process has not been easy, but it is now…
Professor Tom Griffith Upcoming Residency Overseas
Professor Tom Griffith's has been awarded a four-week Residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Centre in Bellagio, Italy. The residency will allow Professor Griffith's to work on his ARC…
Journal of the History of Biology: environmental history issue
The next issue of the Journal of the History of Biology is a special issue on Environmental History. Libby Robin and Jane Carruthers are the guest editors, and there is a strong Australian and South…
NMA Student Prize 2010 winner
The winner of the 2010 NMA Student Prize in Australian Environmental History and the History of Australian Science is Luke Keogh of the University of Queensland for an essay entitled ‘Duboisia…
The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts
Australia is the driest inhabited continent – and our distinctive drylands make up the largest of the continent's biomes. The Archaeology of Australia's Deserts reviews and synthesizes the deep…