The Grollo Ruzzene Foundation Prize for Writing about Italians in Australia: Judges 2006

Robert Pascoe is Dean Laureate at Victoria University, Melbourne. He is a social historian with particular interests in Catholic education, Australian intellectual traditions, the university in history, historiographical debates, and the relationships between ethnicity, social theory and local identity. With Stuart Macintyre and Nikki Henningham he is writing a history of the social sciences in postwar Australia. He is also completing a biography of Monsignor John F Kelly (1910–1992), a leading Catholic educator and catechist in Australia. Recent books have included Sierakowski: Five Generations (2002), Grollo in the Year 2000 (2001), A Community Portrait: Lifetimes in the City of Whittlesea (2001), The Seasons of Treviso (1995) and The Winter Game: The Complete History of Australian Football (1995).

Piero Genovesi is the director of the Australian-Italian Institute at La Trobe University. He specialises in Italian and Italo-Australian fiction.

Adriana Nelli is a freelance historian with expertise in the social history of Italians in Australia and contemporary debates on their role in society.