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Interdisciplinarian takes out top honour
Professor Geoff Brennan has achieved something quite remarkable. Although he is not a member of any economic departments, he has managed to scoop the field, recently collecting the 2013 Australian Economic Society’s Distinguished Fellow Award. “I am a member of two philosophy departments…
Centre for Native Title Anthropology funded
The Centre for Native Title Anthropology will receive $677,050 over three years from the Department of the Attorney-General. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus QC and Member for Fraser Dr Andrew Leigh today visited The Australian National University to announce Native Title…
ANU hosts highest ranked history journal in Australia
Thousands of history journals hit the press every year, but ANU proudly hosts the top journal in the field in Australia: Britain and the World. This journal, now six years old, has been ranked in the Thomson Reuters Social Sciences Citation Index rankings for the very first time this year.“…
Benefitting from the tyranny of the fingers
Deep within halls of the School of Music, surrounded by a cacophony of notes from practicing musicians, Dr Jes Grixti is tapping his foot along to his own African beat. “It’s hard to teach someone to be a composer because it’s very subjective,” says Grixti, who joined the School of Music to…
Howard Morphy's Huxley Medal
Even at the very beginning of his career, Howard Morphy was completely committed to the pursuit of intercultural knowledge. He spent years with the Yolngu people of northeast Arnhem Land for his PhD research, and has returned there time and again, continuing relationships with locals and…
Politics by numbers
Professor Ian McAllister has been researching voter behaviour for more than 40 years. ANN JONES discovers that the polling numbers don’t always add up. The voter stands, hunched at a cardboard booth, pressing pen to paper, marking out his version of democracy. The booth is a bit wobbly and…
Masculinity shortlisted in NSW
Photo from The State Library of Victoria flickr streamTwo ANU historians have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards, with books that look at sexuality and masculinity in different forms. Both books are ground breaking as they have been billed as the first of their type in Australia.…