Celebrating Our Monash University 70th Anniversary Fellows
Congratulations to the Monash Arts academics who have been named Monash University 70th Anniversary Fellows, recognising their leadership and impact across education, research, enterprise and commercialisation.
Established ahead of the University’s landmark milestone, the 70th Anniversary Fellowships recognise exceptional academic leaders whose work drives transformative research, education, and innovation.
This cohort embodies scholarship and education driven by purpose—work that expands understanding, challenges assumptions and creates change.
Education
Professor Fay Anderson brings journalism, history and memory into conversation to help make sense of how stories shape knowledge of conflict, trauma and the past.
Professor Jacqueline Broad recovers overlooked women’s voices in philosophy, reshaping understanding of intellectual history and the origins of ideas about liberty, virtue and women’s rights.
Associate Professor Jeremy Breaden creates meaningful intercultural learning by placing student agency, reciprocity and genuine exchange at the heart of international education.
Dr Kate Burns connects education with questions of justice and social change, encouraging critical thinking about how criminal justice systems work and how they might work better.
Dr Tan Meng Yoe explores how digital media shape religion, spirituality and community, deepening our understanding of how faith is experienced and expressed online.
Research
Professor Adrian Carter explores the ethical challenges created by advances in neuroscience and neurotechnology, helping ensure innovation develops responsibly and with people at its centre.
Professor Narelle Warren places lived experience at the centre of research into health, ageing, disability and care, working towards more equitable systems and outcomes.
Associate Professor Emma Baulch examines how digital technologies interact with culture, identity and inequality, revealing the deeply human dimensions of digital transformation.
Associate Professor Louise Devenish uses music, performance and creative practice to open new ways of understanding and communicating environmental change.
Associate Professor Bridget Harris works to improve safety and access to justice through research on gender-based violence, technology-facilitated abuse and inequality.
Dr Michelle Liu explores fundamental questions about consciousness, language, and art, deepening the understanding of human experience and meaning-making.
Commercialisation and Enterprise
Associate Professor Bhiamie Williamson advances Indigenous-led approaches to disaster resilience, bringing Indigenous knowledge, governance and community priorities to urgent environmental challenges.
Associate Professor Louisa Willoughby turns research on language, multilingualism and Deaf communities into more inclusive policy, services and practice.
Across this exceptional cohort, scholarship and education are driven by purpose, expanding understanding, challenging assumptions, and creating change.
Over the next three years, they will join a cohort of 70 leaders from across Monash to help shape the University’s future direction and serve as ambassadors for the University nationally and globally.
View the full cohort of Monash 70th Anniversary Fellows.