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Recipients: La Trobe Society Fellowship

La Trobe Society fellows have researched Melbourne's first mayor, Europeans in Gippsland and the Aboriginal people of Mt Macedon.

Past recipients

2010

During 2010, Dr Helen MacDonald researched a book manuscript about Henry Condell, Melbourne's first mayor.

You can hear Helen talk about her research by listening to the audio file below.

2008

Historical geographer Dr Wayne Caldow used a six-month funded La Trobe Society Fellowship in 2008 to research a book manuscript, Perceptions of place: the European experience of Gippsland 1839–1844.

2007

Frances Thiele, a scholar, researched Edward Stone Parker and the Aboriginal people of the Mt Macedon district as a case study of Superintendent La Trobe's management of the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate. Frances's funded fellowship was for six months in 2007.

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