AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Major Competitive Grants and Awards

Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship, 2007-12

International Visiting Fellowship, Rockefeller Library Williamsburg, USA 2007

Australia Council Writers Fellowship 2006

Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2006-2008

Australian Research Council Linkage Grant, 2005-9

Australian Research Council Linkage, Grant 2003-7 $20,000 

Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, 2003-2006

Coca Cola Fellowship, International Centre for Jefferson Studies, USA, 2003

Fulbright Senior Scholars Award to Georgetown University, USA, 2001

Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship, 2001-2006

Australian Research Council Large Grant, 2000-2003

Australia Council Writer’s Fellowship, 1998- 2000

Australian Research Council Large Grant, 1996

AVCC Grant to found Australian Humanities Review, 1995-96

Australia Council Asian Pacific Writers Fellowship, 1995

Other Awards

1993 – Colin Roderick Award for Best Australian Book (Gross Moral Turpitude)

2001 - Adelaide Festival Prize for Non Fiction (The Devil and James McAuley)

2002 – Centenary Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Tasmanian and Australian Literature and Education

2004 – Short-listed for Tasmanian Bicentenary Local History Prize (American Citizens, British Slaves)

2006 – Short-listed for Community Relations Commission Prize and the Australian History Prize NSW Premier’s Literary Award (Black Founders)

2007 – Short-listed for Frederick Douglass Book Prize (US) (Epic Journeys)