12-632: Cassandra Jean Pybus FAHA (born 29 September 1947) is an Australian historian and writer. She is a former professorial fellow in history at the University of Sydney , and has published extensively on Australian and American history. Pybus was born in Hobart , Tasmania and educated at North Sydney Girls High School and the University of Sydney . Her mother, Betty Pybus , was a pioneer of women's health in Sydney and Tasmania. From 1989 to 1994, Pybus
24-1424: A Council of leaders in the humanities, elected from among its Fellows, who provide strategic direction, policy guidance, and management oversight. The Council meets four times a year. A Canberra-based Secretariat is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Academy. In February 2023 Inga Davis succeeded Christina Parolin as executive director. President: Professor Stephen Garton AM FAHA FRAHS FASSA FRSN (elected November 2020) Vice-President & Honorary Secretary: Professor Emerita Elizabeth Minchin FAHA International Secretary: Professor Emeritus Joseph Lo Bianco AM FAHA Treasurer: Professor Chris Hilliard FAHA Editor: Professor Louise Edwards FAHA FASSA FHKAH Immediate Past President: Professor Lesley Head FAHA FASSA Members: Emeritus Professor Fred D'Agostino FAHA, Professor Susan Dodds FAHA, Professor Victoria Haskins FAHA, Professor Joanne Tompkins FAHA, Associate Professor Sarah Collins FAHA The Academy comprises
36-541: A Fellowship of over 730 of the most influential humanities researchers and practitioners in, or associated, with Australia. The post-nominal abbreviation for a Fellow of the Academy is FAHA . The following twelve disciplines serve as the Fellowship's electoral sections: Election to the Academy takes place at the Annual general meeting , following nomination by Council on the advice of the eleven electoral sections. At
48-836: A biography of the poet James McAuley . Pybus was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001 for outstanding contribution to Tasmanian and Australian literature and education. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Nonfiction Book Award at the Queensland Literary Awards for Truganini and for the Nonfiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards as well as the 2021 Biography book of the year at the Australian Book Industry Awards with Truganini . In August 2021 she won
60-625: The Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science (AAHMS). The five academies co-operate through the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA), formed in 2010. Stephen Garton Stephen Garton AM, FAHA, FRAHS, FASSA FRSN (born 1955) is an Australian historian and Professor of History at the University of Sydney . This biographical article about an Australian historian
72-854: The National Biography Award with Truganini, while in November 2021 she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities . Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. It operates as an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by
84-781: The Australian Government. The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969. Its antecedent was the Australian Humanities Research Council (AHRC) , which was convened informally in 1954 through the combined efforts of Brian R. Elliott and Professor A. N. Jeffares , who organised preliminary meetings in Melbourne of delegates drawn from the Faculties of Arts in Australian universities. The AHRC
96-789: The date of the grant of the Royal Charter establishing the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1969, there were 51 Members of the AHRC who became the Foundation Fellows of the new Academy. An asterisk denotes a Fellow who was also a Foundation Member of the AHRC. There are four other Learned Academies in Australia: the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA),
108-401: The fifty-one Foundation Fellows at a Special General Meeting on 20–21 September 1969. Annual elections have taken place since that time. For an account of the debates and efforts that led to the establishment of the Academy, see Graeme Davison FAHA's article in the inaugural edition of Humanities Australia : 'Phoenix Rising: The Academy and the Humanities in 1969'. The Academy is governed by
120-433: The members the AHRC. The highest distinction in scholarship in the humanities was required of candidates for election to the Fellowship of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. The first intake comprising sixteen Fellows (including Geoffrey Blainey , Kenneth Inglis , John Mulvaney , David Monro, Franz Philipp, Saiyid Rizvi , Oskar Spate and Judith Wright ) and one Honorary Fellow ( J. C. Beaglehole ) were elected by
132-509: Was a positive force in education and scholarship, and its activities gradually evolved, especially in its support for national projects in the humanities. Recognition among the AHRC executive of the changing functions of the Council led in 1967 to the proposal of establishing an Academy. Royal consent was granted to the petition on 25 June 1969, and Letters Patent issued, constituting the Academy from that date. The Academy's Foundation Fellows were
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#1732775896717144-488: Was editor of the literary magazine Island . She won the Colin Roderick Award in 1993 for Gross Moral Turpitude , a re-examination of the case of Sydney Sparkes Orr , a Northern Irish academic who became embroiled in a scandal involving a relationship with a student whilst working at the University of Tasmania . In 2000, she won an Adelaide Festival Award for Literature for The Devil and James McAuley ,
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