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Harold White Fellows from 2001 to 2010. The Harold White Fellowship program was suspended in 2014 with a new Fellowship and Scholarship program launched from 2016.
2010
Dr Bronwen Douglas, Senior Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, RSPAS, Australian National University
Racial Geography, Local Knowledge, and the Naming of Oceania 1750-1850
Dr Sheridan Palmer, Manning Clark/CAL Residential Fellow; Honorary Fellow, the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne; independent art curator, author and arts writer
The Antipodean: The Life and Work of Bernard Smith
Dr Priscilla Roberts, Associate Professor of History, University of Hong Kong
Anglo-American Think Tanks and China Policy
Dr Lynne McCarthy was awarded but unable to undertake a Fellowship.
2009
Mr John Arnold, Senior Lecturer, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
The Time was Ripe: Sun Books as an agent of cultural change in Australia
Dr David Carter, Professor of Australian Literature and Cultural History, University of Queensland
Making it in the American Market: Australian Books and American Publishers
Dr Robert Cribb, Senior Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
State finance in the Indonesian revolution in Java, 1945-1949
Dr Tatiana Gabroussenko, Visiting Fellow, China and Korea Centre, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University
Shifting patterns of North Korean propaganda from 1994 to the present
Dr Philip Jones, Senior Curator, Department of Anthropology, South Australian Museum
George French Angas, artist and ethnographer
Dr Kenneth Morgan, Professor of History, Brunel University, London
ABC Orchestras
Dr Fiona Wheeler, Professor of Constitutional Law, College of Law, Australian National University
Parachuting In: War and Extra-Judicial Activity by High Court Judges
2008
Dr Susan Cochrane, University of Queensland Postdoctoral Fellowship for Women
The lost art: William Dargie and a cultural history
Dr David Foster, Novelist
A reading of Burton’s Arabian Nights for the novel Shahrazad
Mr Peter Robertson, Research Coordinator, Science, Engineering & Technology Portfolio, RMIT University
A biography of the Australian astronomer John Bolton
Dr Sue Taffe, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University
Fighting Friendships: activists for Indigenous Rights, 1950s 1980s
2007
Dr Catharine Coleborne, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
Madness in the family
Mr Peter Hamburger, First Assistant Secretary, Cabinet Divsion, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra
The Netherlands East Indies: a perfect bureaucrats' state
Dr Nathalie Nguyen, ARC Australian Research Fellow, The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne
Vietnamese refugees: perspectives and perceptions
Mr Graeme Skinner, Freelance music consultant
Peter Sculthorpe biography, part 2 (1975-present)
Dr Julie Stephens, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Education and Human Development, Victoria University
The Uses and Abuses of Feminist Cultural Memory
2006
Dr Pamela Gutman, Honorary Associate, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney
Bloomsbury in Burma: a biography of George Hannington Luce
Dr Bernadette Hince, Researcher, Canberra
The Heard Island diaries of John Béchervaise
Dr Jemma Purdey, Writer-in-residence, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University
Herb Feith: a biography
Dr Carolyn Strange, Senior Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880-1963): visions of 'Man and Nature' in the 20th Century
2005
Dr Paul Humphries, Researcher, Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre, Albury
Identification of species, abundance and distribution of fishes in the Murray River in earlier times
Dr Simon Potter, Lecturer in History, National University of Ireland
The connections between the mass media in Britain and Australia and the other Dominions in the period 1920-1970
Professor Bob Reece, Professor of History, Murdoch University
The papers of Daisy Bates
Professor Thomas Shapcott, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Adelaide
The papers of Ray Mathew
Dr Thien Do, Independent researcher
Impact of modernity and colonialism on popular religion in Vietnam in the period 1900-1945
2004
Dr Albrecht Dümling, Researcher at the Centre for Studies in Anti-Semitism, Technical University, Berlin
Refugee musicians from Germany and Austria in Australia
Dr Margot Harker, Independent researcher
‘The Radiant Day’ – Australians and their weddings
Professor Michael McClellan, Associate Professor, Department of Music, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The French Revolution on stage
Dr Penny Olsen, Visiting Fellow, School of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University
Paradise lost: the quest for the paradise parrot
Dr Rosemary Campbell was awarded but unable to undertake a Fellowship.
2003
Professor Carl Bridge, Director of the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, University of London
A scholarly edition of R.G. Casey's Washington diaries, 1940-42
Dr Ryan Dunch, Associate Professor, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Reading missionary modernity in late Qing China
Dr Keith McKenry, Freelance researcher, Canberra
The life and work of John Meredith and his role in the Australian folk revival
Mr Angus Trumble, Curator of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Rossetti's wombat; Anglo-Australian cultural relations in the second half of the nineteenth century
Mr Gary Catalano was awarded but unable to undertake a Fellowship.
2002
Dr Penny Edwards, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University
The power of culture: temples of memory and the politics of nostalgia in British Burma and contemporary Myanmar
Dr Jennifer Hocking, Associate Professor, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
Frank Hardy: a political life
Dr Christa Knellwolf, Honorary Research Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
The travelling imagination: a comparison of imaginary with real journeys of exploration
Dr Keiko Tamura, Freelance researcher, Canberra
Engagement of East and West: a critical study of the Harold Williams Collection
Dr Martin Thomas, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney
Surveying cross-cultural encounter: the legacy of R.H. Mathews, anthropologist
2001
Ms Margaret Barbalet, Novelist, Canberra
Sources on Buddhism for a novel Paradise Hotel
Dr Rhian Davies, Freelance musicologist and broadcaster, Cardiff, Wales
F.S. Kelly (1881-1916), musician and oarsman
Dr Satyanshu Mukherjee, Retired criminologist, Canberra
A history of criminal justice policy in Australia since 1788
Dr Benjamin Penny, Honorary Research Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University
Religion in contemporary China: the case of Falungong
Dr Jane Roberts, Independent research scientist, Canberra
Australian river navigation charts, their historical and scientific values
Mrs Susan Woodburn, Special Collections Librarian, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
Printing and publishing in Pacific Islands languages in Australia
