Externally Funded Research

The members of CHRG undertake research across a range of places and for a wide variety of organisations. Below is just a sample of the fascinating projects we are doing here in Australia and abroad.

C. Atherton Saving Face: The Hiroshima Maidens 2016 Australia Council
C. Atherton (with J Wilkinson, RMIT and D Disney, Sogang University, Seoul) Poetry and Translations Exchange 2016 DFAT Australia Korea Foundation
C. Atherton Pika-don: The Atomic Bomb in Words and Pictures 2016 Creative Victoria, VicArts grant
G. Burgess Geelong and the First World War 2015-17 Commonwealth Govt, ANZAC Centenary Local Grant
S. Cooke Holocaust Sites at Risk: conservation guidelines for Best Practice 2019-22 International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
S. Cooke A History of the Box Hill RSL 2016-18 Box Hill RSL
C. Corbould What’s Your story? Surveys , Social Science Expertise and the State in the Twentieth Century 2016 Academy for the Social Sciences in Australia (Monash)
C. Corbould Talking Slavery in the New Deal 2016-18 ARC Future Fellowship (Monash 2016-17)
C. Corbould The Revolution in Black American Life 2016-17 ARC Discovery (Monash)
J. Cruickshank History for Change 2016 Crowdfunded, Research My World
J. Cruickshank Indigenous Leaders: Lawful Relations from Encounter to Treaty 2018-20 ARC Discovery, Indigenous
D. Frieze (with S. Cooke) Holocaust Memorial Week Piot Project 2018 DFAT
H. Gardner Howitt and Fison’s Anthropology: Using New Methods to Reveal Hidden Riches 2016-19 ARC Linkage
C. Holbrook Australians and their Federation: A Cultural History Since 1901 2019-22 ARC DECRA
D. Lowe (and Mark McGillivray) A History of Australia’s Foreign Aid 2017-19 ARC Discovery
D. Lowe A History of Australia’s Embassy in Tokyo 2016-17 DFAT, Australia-Japan Foundation
D. Lowe Australia-India Student Mobility 2017-18 DFAT, Australia India Council Award
K. Moruzi The Charitable Child 2014-16 ARC DECRA
K. Moruzi Literary, Cultural, Social: (Re) Examining Historical Childhoods 2016 Society for the History of Children and Youth
J. Ritchie PNG in World War Two 2015-17 DFAT: URS Australia Pty Ltd & Abt Associates Pty Ltd
T. Shellam Collecting the West: How Collections create Western Australia 2016-18 ARC Linkage
T. Shellam Ancestors’ Words: Nyungar writing in WA government archives 2016-19 ARC Discovery
P. Singh India’s Biometric Identity Project: Exploring New Values for Information Societies 2018-19 Toyota Foundation
P. Singh Aadhaar and Anxieties of Recognition: Privacy in India 2018-19 Indian Business School, Hyderabad
F. Slaveski The Chaotic Transition from War to Peace in Soviet-Occupied Europe, 1945-53 2015-19 ARC DECRA
M Takolander Bronze Stories (Research and writing of Geelong CBD histories for installation in footpath plaques and associated app) 2017-18 City of Greater Geelong

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