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The National Library’s Fellowship program brings researchers, writers and artists out of their institutions and into our collections. Fellows work closely with the collections to support research or creative projects, from dissertations and books to artworks and songs.
The Fellows bring a constant stream of new knowledge and perspective as they take an in-depth look at our collections. The Fellowship talks are a program of presentations that share that new knowledge with the public, exploring the Fellows experiences with the collection and how their research projects have progressed during their time at the Library.
2024 Fellows
- John Shortis, Something Worth Fighting For: Aussie protest songs
- Robin Gerster, Harold S. Williams and Japan
- Dr David McDonald, Experiencing institutional 'care'
- Celia Craig, Meeting Miriam
- Dr Jo Langdon, Tracing aviatrix archives
- Dr Melanie Duckworth, Christobel Mattingley: Life, worlds, words
- Dr Bernadette Brennan, Mining Modjeska's archive
2023 Fellows
- Dr Lorinda Cramer, From Shoddy to Superfine: A Material History of Australian Wool
- Dr Adam Sundberg, An Environmental History of Ballast Water Management in Australia
- Dr Deirdre O’Connell, Pakie's Club: A Modern Arts Salon in Interwar Sydney
- Martie Lowenstein, What Wendy Found: The Story of the 1969 Outback 'Australian Folklore Expedition'
- Deane Williams, A Cultural Biography of Ron Maslyn Williams
- Dr Alice Garner, The Many Lives of Mavis Robertson
- Sam Wallman, Pink and Green Bans
- Eleanor Hogan, Eleanor Witcombe: Her Brilliant Career
- Dr Christina Thompson: Palapala: a story of reading, writing, and books
- Dr Wesley Lim, Staging nationhood in dance photographs
- Dr Tets Kimura, Grief in World War II expressed in art and fashion
2022 Fellows
- Dr Tonya Lemoh, Interiors: The Musical World of Henry Handel Richardson
- Dr Annie McCarthy, The Children Shall Carry it on
- Ms Theresa Borg, Feet of Clay
- Ms Madelyn Shaw, Fabric of War
- Dr Susan Hemer, Women and Children Last: Establishing Maternal Child Health Services in Papua New Guinea
- Associate Professor Alison Holland, The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission: Toward a History
- Dr Ryan Johnson, From Paris to Dalian
- Professor Paul Turnbull, Living with the Dead
- Dr Kate Warren, Cut-out-and-keep: Magazines and the Popularisation of Australian Art in the 1950s and 1960s
- Dr Mahesh White-Radhakrishnan, Quadrille Tunes Circling Round
- Dr Gwyn McClelland, Trauma and World Heritage on the Gotō Islands: 1856-1899
2021 Fellows
- Dr BIll Mihalopoulos, Consent on Trial: The Fascinating Case of the Maria Luz Incident (1872)
- Professor Melanie Oppenheimer, Imperial Power Couple
- Dr Jordie Albiston, Frank Hurley in Antarctica
- A/Prof Kate Fullagar, Revising the Life of Bennelong
- Dr Andre Brett, The History of Australian and New Zealand Railways
- Dr Andrew Levidis, The Dreamworlds of Empire
- Adjunct Professor Russell McGregor, Bird Lovers: A History of Birdwatching Passions
- Professor Anne Pender, The Colour of Fire: Australia and China in the Theatre 1980-2020
- Mr David Wickham, Fredrick Septimus Kelly: The Lost Olympian
- Dr André Brett, Scars in the Country
- Dr Anna Dziedzic, Waves & currents: the movement of constitutional texts & ideas across Oceania
- Dr Angélique Stastny, Publishing the Anti-Colonial Struggle
2020 Fellows
- Mr Luke Byrnes, Luke Byrnes and the Big Scrub Revival Band
- Ms Nadia Bailey, Darkened Rooms
- Mr Anthony White, The Stockade Project
- Ms Alisa Bunbury, The Eastern Isle: Norfolk Island in Colonial Art and Writings
- Dr Sugata Nandi, Spritualist West, Magical Orient: Theosophists and India, 1875-1930
- Associate Professor Sharon Crozier-de Rosa, Memory Keepers: Women Activists' Strategies to Preserve History
- Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney, Community Singing in Interwar Australia
