Previous ACIS Postgraduate Fieldwork Scholarship Awardees
2020
Donna Storey (PhD, Melbourne)
Race and Romanità in Fascist Italy
Matthew Topp (PhD, Monash)
Ars Oblivionalis: A Study of Cultural Forgetting in Renaissance Florence
2019
Julia Pelosi-Thorpe (MA, Melbourne)
'Imitate da Ovidio’: gender ventriloquism in the seicento epistole eroiche
Andrea Pagani, (PhD, Monash)
Beyond Pinocchio: Italian National Identity in Carlo Collodi’s Works for Primary Schools (1877-1890)
Margherita Angelucci (PhD, Monash)
A New Way of Being Italian through the Lens of Hip Hop
2018
Madeleine Regan (PhD, Flinders)
Establishing family market gardens and transplanting Veneto community in the western suburbs of Adelaide, 1920s–1970s
Darius Sepehri (PhD, Sydney)
Reading the Renaissance anew: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and his Islamic sources
Lana Stephens (MA, Monash)
Theologia ficinianum: intellectual exchange and spiritual renewal in Late Quattrocento Florence
2017
Paola Di Trocchio (PhD, UTS)
Reading fashion in the museum through a case study of Anna Piaggi, Walking Museum
Shayani Fernando (PhD, Sydney)
The Machine and the Arch. Ancient Italian Stone Craft and its Influence on Contemporary Stone Culture and Exposition
Julie Robarts (PhD, Melbourne)
Forms that Sound: Margherita Costa’s Lyric Corpus, 1638-9
2016
Tara Auty (PhD, UWA)
The Fall of Constantinople in Quattrocento Literary Culture: Community Emotions and the Genre of Neo-Latin Epic in Fifteenth Century Italy
Catherine Blake (PhD, Sydney)
Unstable Ground: Vitale da Bologna between Form and Modality
Jessica O’Leary (MA, Monash)
Women and Kinship Diplomacy: Negotiation, Gift Exchange, and News in the Familial Network of the Aragonese of Naples
2015
Lisa Di Crescenzo (PhD, Monash)
Letters, Lineage and Life Cycle in Exile and Expatriation: The Epistolary Corpus of the Strozzi, 1471-1510
Kristen Sloan (PhD, Wollongong)
Re-awakening ‘Ghost Towns’: Alternative Futures for Abandoned Italian Villages
2014
Stefano Bona (PhD, Flinders)
The Representation of China on Italian Screens after 1949: Cultural Economic and ideological implications
Esther Theiler (PhD, La Trobe)
Portrait Painting in Italy in the Seventeenth Century
2013
Daniel Canaris (PhD, Sydney)
Giambattista Vico and the 17th century Chinese rites controversy
2012
Amy Sinclair (PhD, Melbourne)
Gender and identity construction in Lucrezia Marinella and Venetian writers of the Seicento
2011
Gianluca Caputo (PhD, La Trobe)
The Japanese presence in Italian culture
Marco Ceccarelli (PhD, UWA)
Catholic responses to Islamic terrorism
Francesca Ori (PhD, Sydney)
Giovanni Pascoli
Elizabeth Reid (PhD, Macquarie)
Clothing the body: vice and virtue in Florence 1350–1500
2010
Erika Piazzoli (PhD, Griffith)
The potential of drama-based pedagogies for the teaching and learning of Italian as L2/FL.
Melanie Smans (PhD, Monash)
The internationalisation of Italian immigrant ethnic entrepreneurs in Australia
2009
Annie Lord (Hons, Notre Dame)
An investigation into the status of the Catalan language in Alghero, Sardinia
Emma Nicholls (MA, Monash)
The complex symbolic power of silk in Renaissance Florence
Barbara Pezzotti (PhD, Victoria University, Wellington)
Realism & regional identity in contemporary Italian detective stories
Clare Tunney (Doctor of Musical Arts, UWA)
A study of violoncello playing in Italy in the nineteenth century
2008
Natasha Amendola (PhD, Monash)
Weaving and Unweaving Penelope: a study of her fortunes in Latin and vernacular literature from Ovid to Boccaccio
Josh Brown (PhD, UWA)
Multilingual communication in the letters of Francesco di Marco Datini
Theodore Ell (PhD, Sydney)
Lichens on broken stone: Piero Bigongiari’s Rogo and the quest for survival
2007
Brigid Maher (PhD, Monash)
The translation of humour in literature
Roza Passos (PhD, Melbourne)
Late medieval illuminated manuscripts
Katherine Rowe (PhD, Monash)
Early Modern Italian women in northern courts
2006
Glenys Adams (PhD, Melbourne)
The private rooms of San Filippo Neri at the Vallicella church in Rome: an interdisciplinary exploration in art, religion and society
Sally Grant (PhD, Sydney)
The idea of the garden in Early Modern Venice
Jodi Hodge (PhD, Monash)
Under the shadow: religious life and cultural exchange between Florence and Prato in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
2005
Catherine England (PhD, Sydney)
Children and childhood in Renaissance Florence
Sandra Margon (PhD, UTS)
An assessment of the impact of Europeanisation and European Union policies on the Italian higher education system
Cristina Potz (PhD, La Trobe)
The cultural and literary relationship between the Accademia Pomponiana and the circle of Spanish intellectuals and literati in Rome in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
2004
Mathias Stevenson (MA, Monash)
The Afflictions of an Outsider: Exploring the ‘Paradox of Selfhood’ in the Early Cinema of Nanni Moretti
Ivana Krsnik-Lipohar (Hons, Griffith)
The ‘Youth protest movement’ in Italy. Challenging the new social movement theories
Daniela Rose (PhD, Flinders)
A Study of Australian Migrants from Caulonia (Calabria) to South Australia
2003
Natasha Bajan (PhD, Sydney)
Women as public intellectuals in Italy late 18th to early 20th centuries: three cases of female journalists
Adriana Diaz (Hons, Griffith)
Policies on language acquisition and acculturation in multicultural Italy: sociolinguistic issues
Sarah Finn (PhD, UWA)
Father of the Italian nation: Dante Alighieri and the construction of Italian national identity, 1861-1945
2002
Stephen Bennetts (PhD, UWA)
The social and cultural context of projects for the “rivalorizzazione dei beni culturali” in the South of Italy, particularly Naples
Gary Bonar (Hons, La Trobe)
Translation theory in practice: a novel by Stefano D’Andrea from Italian into English
Margaret Toomey (Geoghegan) (Hons, Griffith)
The novels of Clara Sereni
2001
Kathleen Olive (PhD, Sydney)
Medieval pilgrimage literature: preparation of an edition of the Itinerario of Marco di Bartolomeo Rustici
Sandra Graham (PhD, Griffith)
An oral history of Italian women directors of feature films for cinema and television, 1969-1999