NLA announces 2025 Fellows

The National Library of Australia (NLA) has announced its 2025 Fellows, awarded to local and international scholars.

The recipients and their research projects are:

NLA Fellowships

• Alexis Bergantz, ‘Whose Pacific? Australia and the South Pacific Commission, 1940s–1990s’
• Anna Kent, ‘Shared Histories, Shared Communities – a History of Connections between International Students and the Australian Community’
• John Morrissey, ‘The Battle for the Biosphere: The Political Ecology of Judith Wright’
• Meg Brayshaw, ‘Rethinking Realism in the Work of Dymphna Cusack (1902–1981) and Kylie Tennant (1912–1988)’
• Catharine Coleborne, ‘My Mother’s Polio: Understanding the Illness Experience of Regional Australians in the Twentieth Century’
• Sanjiao Tang, ‘30 Years Making of Communist and Nationalist Youth: the CCP’s Propaganda Targeting the Chinese Youth during the Maoist Era’
• Andrew Carr, ‘Defending Australian Territory’
• Matthew Spriggs, ‘Documenting the Corpus of Books in the Indigenous Languages of Vanuatu’
• Samuel White, ‘Keeping the Peace of the Realm’

Creative Arts Fellowship for Australian Writing

• Julie Gough, ‘Action Plan’
• Scott-Patrick Mitchell, ‘RISE RALLY REST’.

Established in 1984, the fellowship program has supported nearly 500 Australian and international scholars and artists. The scholars will draw on the library’s ‘extensive collections’ to carry out research on their project topics.

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