From 2010 to 2012, the United States Studies Centre's postdoctoral fellowship program brought to Sydney emerging scholarly leaders working on the United States in the humanities, social sciences and related professional disciplines.
Fellows completed a major research project as well as engaged with students and scholars in Sydney and around Australia during the fellowship period.
Postdoctoral fellow alumni
2012 Fellows
- Nicole Hemmer
Messengers of the Right: Media and the Modern Conservative Movement - Carrie Hyde
Alienable Rights: Negative Figures of U.S. Citizenship, 1787-1868 - Jean J. Kim
Transnationalizing U.S. History: Medical and Scientific Trans-Pacific Circuits in the Making of U.S. Empire - Marc Palen
The Conspiracy of Free Trade: Anglo-American Relations and the Ideological Origins of American Globalization, 1846-1896 - Rob Rakove
The history of U.S. relations with Afghanistan prior to the Soviet invasion - Shawn Treier
Ideas, Interests, and the Politics of the US Constitutional Convention
2011 Fellows
- Georgiana Banita
Petro-fiction – American literary culture and the global oil crisis - Robert Blakeslee Gilpin
Slavery’s hold on the American imagination - Peter Hatemi
The neuro-biological foundations of political behavior - Maria Ponomarenko
The impact of federalism on the American legal system - Allison Pugh
Women’s commitment and change in a Turbulent Age - Felicity Turner
The gendered political dynamics shaping nineteenth century American national identity
2010 Fellows
- Jason Casellas
No Latino Left Behind: The Development of Latino Education Policy, 1968 - Mark W. Geiger
Financial Innovation and the Chicago Board of Trade - Willie Gin
Transforming Exclusivist Identities in the USA, Australia and Canada - Sabino Kornrich
Consumerism and Inequality in the 1980s and 90s: the Role of Emulation, Bidding and Lifestyle - Jeremy Pressman
The United States & Arab-Israeli Relations: Force, Diplomacy & Interests - Rebecca Sheehan
American Redemption: Sex, Rock, and Religion, 1968-1983
