Dr Michelle Staff announced as 2025 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellow
On 5 March at Adelaide Writers' Week Dr Michelle Staff was announced as the recipient of the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for 2025. The fellowship will support her research for a biography of…
National Centre of Biography News, March 2025
In the March issue of the NCB News we announce the newly renamed Nan Phillips Library, celebrate multiple staff and student accomplishments, and share notices for various recent publications and…
National Centre of Biography News, February 2025
In the first issue of the NCB News for 2025 we celebrate some staff and student successes, share the program for the Biography Workshop series, and suggest lots of items to add to your reading list.…
Dr Emily Gallagher wins Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize
Congratulations to ADB research editor Dr Emily Gallagher, whose PhD thesis was awarded the International Australian Studies Association's Lyndall Ryan Thesis Prize. Readers will remember that last…
A/Prof Amanda Laugesen and Dr Karen Fox awarded 2025 ARC Discovery Project grant
Congratulations to A/Prof Amanda Laugesen (School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics, RSHA) and Dr Karen Fox (National Centre of Biography/School of History, RSSS) on their success in the…
Over 120 new ADB entries added in 2024
In 2024 we added over 120 new entries to the Australian Dictionary of Biography. Our focus is on subjects who died between 1996 and 2000, and we have included a wide range of people, from women…
