Visiting Fellows
Visiting Fellows title
Promoting the study of Australia and developing research collaborations.
The ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) Visiting Fellowship Program brings early and mid-career researchers to the ANU campus to conduct and share research that promotes the study of Australia or transnational and comparative research involving Australia.
This Fellowship opportunity is for scholars of all academic disciplines who are based in Australian and overseas academic institutions.
Dr Susan Engel
Position: AuSI Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: Australian Studies Institute
Email: sengel@uow.edu.au
Visit date: 15 Apr 2024 - 24 May 2024
Building strong connections between Australia and the Global South has never been more important than today in this period of global crisis. While the rise of China has led Australia to reconfirm its ties with the West through the AUKUS alliance, it is equally important to re-consider and re-conceptualise Australia’s relations with the Global South. Dr Engel's Fellowship project will focus on Australia’s relationship to, and engagement with, efforts to achieve development and democracy. It will explore Australian engagement, policy and programs through a critical political economy approach in a range of spheres: foreign policy, development finance, aid, trade and the UN, climate change and human rights. As a visiting fellow at ANU, I will gather key materials for the project, make connections with ANU researchers so as to deepen my understanding of key topics, and undertake interviews with current and former policy-makers and civil society actors for the project.
Mr Wayne Barker
Position: AuSI Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: Australian Studies Institute
Email: festival@kalacc.org.au
Visit date: 19 Feb 2023 - 30 Mar 2023
Website: /people/mr-wayne-barker
Wayne Barker will be progressing the analysis and editing of audio-visual materials from the Following the Trade Routes project, with the aim of developing a script for a podcast series which is our major research output for this project. The Following the Trade Routes project is a cultural practice and research project, established and led by the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre in collaboration with the ANU (CHMS) and the South Australia Museum. The project is seeking to create new understanding of cultural economies and trade routes that shaped Aboriginal societies across Australia, and to explore how such knowledge informs society and Aboriginal cultural practice today.
Dr Ebony Nilsson
Position: AuSI Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: Australian Studies Institute
Email: Ebony.Nilsson@acu.edu.au
Visit date: 26 Feb 2023 - 27 Mar 2023
The Petrov Affair was a key moment in Australia’s Cold War and its political implications have been thoroughly explored, but we know little about what it meant for Australian neighbourhoods. Did the outpouring of sympathy for the Petrovs extend to a Russian colleague, or the Russian family next-door? Or did revelations of Soviet espionage engender suspicion toward Russian migrants? This project will use the records of local MPs, opinion polls, and newspapers to investigate the Petrov Affair's impact on Australian communities and social cohesion. It explores how Australian society dealt with allegations of foreign interference alongside its increasingly multicultural character.
Dr James Dunk
Position: AuSI Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: Australian Studies Institute
Email: james.dunk@sydney.edu.au
Visit date: 01 Jun 2023 - 30 Jun 2023
Website: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/james-dunk.html
This archival and oral history research project will explore the distinctive Australian contributions to planetary health, a rapidly emerging transdisciplinary field at the intersection of global environmental governance and global health. With great potential to drive effective action for planetary life, clarifying its distinctive elements and conceptual dynamics is an urgent project. This Fellowship will support a period of concentrated research on the life work of epidemiologist Anthony McMichael, director of the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health 2001–12, and Stephen Boyden, a pioneer in human and systems ecology at ANU. This research will amplify Australian strands of current programs in human and planetary health.
Dr Feo Snagovsky
Position: AuSI Visiting Fellow
School and/or Centres: Australian Studies Institute
Email: feodor.snagovsky@ualberta.ca
Visit date: 31 May 2023 - 30 Jun 2023
Website: https://feosnagovsky.com/
Dr Snagovsky will use this Fellowship to compare political advisors in Australia and Canada and examine the pathway from advising to preselection to election in these two countries. He will also be examining the role of white identity in Australia, Canada and Britain. Many citizens of these countries wrongly assume their country is immune to the negative consequences of white identity politics. This research will identify the causes and consequences of white identity activation, with the goal of reducing potentially anti-pluralist outcomes.