The Research Project
Monash University offers the Ada Booth Research Fellowship in Slavic Studies based at Monash University Library in Melbourne, Australia.
The fellowship offers you a unique opportunity to further your research with our extensive resources in Ukrainian, Russian and other Slavic languages, Slavic Australiana, Soviet Studies, migrant and diaspora culture, and resources relating to the current political climate in Eastern Europe.
Monash University Library is one of Australia's leading academic libraries, inspiring and enabling scholars through exceptional expertise, resources, spaces and technologies, and collaboration.
Ada Booth Slavic Collection
The collection is home to the Library’s extensive holdings of materials in Slavic languages. Established in 2011, it was a result of a benefaction of the late Ada Phyllis Booth (1921-2008), physicist and lecturer at the University of Melbourne.
Strengths of the collection include:
- History, art, politics and culture of Central and Eastern Europe
- Ukrainian Studies, forming the leading academic Ukrainian collection in Australia
- Over 20,000 volumes on history and culture of Russia and the Soviet Union
- Slavic Australiana, migrant and diaspora literature and culture
- Slavic women’s writing
- Rare materials including original Bolshevik and Soviet political posters, propaganda and original avant-garde editions
There are also rich holdings in the Library’s other Special collections, most notably:
- Music and Multimedia Collection which includes scores and audio visual recordings of Russian, Soviet, and Slavic Australiana works
- Kipen Judaica and Giligich Yiddish Collections which house significant parts of the Library’s Jewish Studies collections.
Monash University Library also has access to an extensive selection of online resources. For more information, see the the Library Guide for Slavic Studies.
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The Fellowship
We invite applications from researchers, postgraduate students and independent scholars from Australia and abroad. The fellowship will award up to AUD20,000 in non-salary funding for project-related costs to work on projects that will benefit from concentrated access to the Library’s Slavic collections and promote Slavic Studies and related fields. Costs could include project, travel, accommodation and living expenses. More than one fellowship may be awarded in 2020.
The fellowship is intended for a length of 3-6 months, and fellows are expected to engage with Monash University Library for the time of the fellowship.
Current Monash University staff and students, and previous Fellowship holders, are not eligible to apply.
The Library acknowledges contribution of the Ada Booth Benefaction trustees in making the fellowships available.
Applications are now CLOSED.
Previous Ada Booth Research Fellows
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Dr Geoffrey Brown
Dr Brown researched his topic through the Czech-language press in Australia, particularly the newspaper 'Hlas domova (Voice of the Homeland)' published in Melbourne between 1950 and 1979, and the succeeding periodical 'Hlasy (Voices)', published until 1990.
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Dr Marta Havryshko
Dr Havryshko researched women’s experiences of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Ukrainian Insurgent Army from the beginning of the Second World War and until the termination of nationalist resistance in the middle of the 1950s.
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Dr Simone Bellezza
Dr Bellezza furthered his current research into whether members of the Ukrainian diaspora in Australia were active in the development of Human Rights charters and national and international treaties, particularly through student associations.
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Dr Jaro Stacul
Dr Stacul furthered his research into issues of nationalism and the state in Europe by investigating 'solidarity' and 'solidarity' among the Polish diaspora in Australia.
Selection Panel
Monash Faculty of Arts researchers will assess the application as part of the selection panel.
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