Contact Details
| Organization: | Historical Studies |
| Position: | LECTURER IN AUSTRALIAN STUDIES.. |
| Email: | |
| Homepage: | http://www.australian.unimelb.edu.au/aboutus/people/anderson.html |
| Work: | 8344 7021 |
| Fax: | 9347 7731 |
| Room: | 113 |
| Level: | 01 |
| Building: | 131/137 Barry St. |
| Campus: | Parkville |
Biography
Dr Fay Anderson is a lecturer at the Australian Centre in the School of Historical Studies. She was educated at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. After graduating, Fay worked as a journalist and lived in Paris and Jerusalem for several years. Fay’s research interests is Australian war journalism, which builds upon her existing expertise as an historian of intellectual ideas, censorship and institutions in the public sphere, including the study of censorship, the media and reporting. Her PhD thesis, which was awarded in 2003, was published in 2005 by Melbourne University Publishing and entitled, An Historian's Life: Max Crawford and the Politics of Academic Freedom.
Fay and Richard Trembath’s collaborative research on Australian war journalism is funded by the ARC and conducted in partnership with the CEW Bean Foundation and the National Library of Australia, with support from Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. The project, 'Witnesses to War' will begin with Howard Willoughby’s journalistic endeavours in New Zealand in the 1860s to the present Iraq war. Major themes include the creation of the Anzac legend, the mythmaking and truths, censorship, embedded journalism, propaganda, genocide, gender, national identity, objectivity and the changing nature of war reporting. The project will result in several public initiatives and programs including an anthology of the most significant reports, an exhibition, a symposium, an oral history archive held in the NLA and the history itself, which will be published in 2009 by Melbourne University Publishing.
Fay and Richard Trembath’s collaborative research on Australian war journalism is funded by the ARC and conducted in partnership with the CEW Bean Foundation and the National Library of Australia, with support from Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. The project, 'Witnesses to War' will begin with Howard Willoughby’s journalistic endeavours in New Zealand in the 1860s to the present Iraq war. Major themes include the creation of the Anzac legend, the mythmaking and truths, censorship, embedded journalism, propaganda, genocide, gender, national identity, objectivity and the changing nature of war reporting. The project will result in several public initiatives and programs including an anthology of the most significant reports, an exhibition, a symposium, an oral history archive held in the NLA and the history itself, which will be published in 2009 by Melbourne University Publishing.
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest | Key Words | Country of Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Academic freedom and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation | War journalism, Biography and memory, Education and crime | Australia |
| Academic freedom and the history of ideas | academic freedom, the history of ideas and institutions | Australia |
| Crime and punishment | crime, punishment, media representation, capital punishment | Australia |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards
Qualifications
| Title | Institution | Date Awarded | Abbreviation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bachelor of Arts (honours) | La Trobe University | 01-Dec-1988 | |
| GradDip Information Management | University of Melbourne | 01-Dec-1993 | |
| PhD (History) | University of Melbourne | 01-May-2003 |
Other Awards
| Award Type | Awarding Body | Comments | Date Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prize | University of Melbourne | Australian Society of Archivists Margaret Jennings Award | 01-Dec-1994 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
- Education Studies not elsewhere classified (EDUCATION STUDIES) (330199)
- Journalism (JOURNALISM, COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA) (400101)
- Communication and Media Studies (JOURNALISM, COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA) (400104)
- Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified (CULTURAL STUDIES) (420399)
- History: Australian (HISTORICAL STUDIES) (430101)
- History: European (HISTORICAL STUDIES) (430108)
- Biography (HISTORICAL STUDIES) (430112)
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Grants and Contracts
Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.
Grants
| Title | Role | Funding Source | Scheme | Award Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WITNESSES TO WAR: AUSTRALIAN WAR CORRESPONDENTS FROM THE BOER WAR TO THE GULF WAR | Chief Investigator | C.E.W. BEAN FOUNDATION, NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUST, AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL |
Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) | 01/01/2005 |
Additional Grant and Contract Information
ARC Linkage Grant entitled 'Witness to War: The History of Australian war correspondents from the New Zealand Wars to Iraq.Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.