Previous fellows: Redmond Barry Fellowship

George Frederick Folingsby, Sir Redmond Barry, c 1880, oil on canvas, State Library of Victoria

Previous Redmond Barry Fellowship recipients have researched a wide range of topics including the composer Percy Grainger, Melbourne's literary magazines, wildfire and the artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

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2019 fellows: Dr Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs

Book manuscript and exhibition: Frances Burke, designer and the fabric of modernist Melbourne

portrait of older woman wearing a scarf and teal jumper against red background

2018: Dr Jillian Graham

Biography: Beyond the stave: A biography of Australian composer and arts activist Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984)

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2017: Dr Luke Keogh

Scholarly article and book: Garden state: The Wardian case, Victoria and the global nursery trade

2016: Dr Ross Jones

Scholarly article: Kill or cure? Tuberculosis, tuberculin and the Melbourne medical scene in the 1890s

2015 Redmond Barry Fellow, Professor Jennifer Clark

2015: Professor Jennifer Clark

Historical narrative, scholarly article and blog: Yours faithfully: Writing letters for the Council for Aboriginal Rights, 1952–61

2014: Dr Michael Davis

Article for publication and reading guide: The Greg Dening papers

2013: Marguerita Stephens

Article: Assistant Protector William Thomas and the Kulin people, 1839–1867: the end of things?