Research projects

The Institutions of the Humanities: Emeritus Professor Lesley Johnson, Joel Barnes and Saskia Beudel are examining how universities, research libraries and the Australian Academy of the Humanities have shaped humanities knowledge and scholarship in Australia since 1945.

 

Expert Nation, an Australian Research Council project from a team led by ACPH Director Associate Professor Tamson Pietsch, which tracks the inter-war careers of 6000 university men and women who served in the First World War and investigates their contribution to the formation of the post-war Australian nation.

 

The Floating University: With this project Tamson Pietsch uncovers the untold story of the Floating University – a ship that sailed around the world in 1926–27 with 500 Americans on board, offering a year of college courses that aimed to teach students to “think in world terms”. Bringing together the history of American empire with the history of international education, it is a study of how universities came to have authority of knowledge in the twentieth century.

 

Associate Professor Anna Clark’s project Re-imagining the National Story is a history of Australian historiography, funded by the Australian Research Council.

 

 

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.