Redmond Barry Fellowship

Archives and Special Collections, within Scholarly Services, in partnership with the State Library of Victoria, are proud to present the Redmond Barry Fellowship. The Redmond Barry Fellowship is named in honour of Sir Redmond Barry, founder of the University of Melbourne and its longest serving Chancellor, and founder of the State Library of Victoria. He was an influential advocate for the creation of public works throughout Melbourne and held a lifelong interest in philanthropy and contributing to Melbourne’s social and cultural activities. The first Fellowship was awarded in 2004 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Sir Redmond Barry’s laying of the foundation stones for both institutions on 3 July 1854.
Writers and scholars wanting to use our collection to research a project in any discipline can apply for the Redmond Barry Fellowship. This includes early career researchers.
2022 Fellow
Our 2022 Redmond Barry Fellow is Dr Lorinda Cramer.
Searching for insights into men’s and women’s engagement with fashion in times of uncertainty and moments of social change, Dr Cramer will consider how dress and fashion intersect with gender, class and race.
Her project Wearing wool: Foy & Gibson, Fletcher Jones and a new dress historyexamines the importance of wool in the social, cultural and dress history of twentieth-century Australia. In an academic journal article, she hopes to advance knowledge on historical, everyday dress practices and the dynamics behind how and why Victorians choose to wear wool.
Dr Lorinda Cramer is a postdoctoral researcher in the National School of Arts at the Australian Catholic University. Her research seeks out new perspectives on what worn, everyday clothing might reveal about daily experiences.

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Redmond Barry Fellows 2019
Dr Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs Book manuscript and exhibition: Frances Burke, designer and the fabric of modernist Melbourne
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2018
Dr Jillian Graham Beyond the Stave: A Biography of Australian Composer and Arts Activist Margaret Sutherland (1897-1984)
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2017
Dr Luke KeoghGarden state: The Wardian case, Victoria and the global nursery trade.
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2016
Dr Ross JonesKill or Cure? Tuberculosis, tuberculin and the Melbourne medical scene in the 1890s sought to re-create the story of tuberculin in Melbourne.
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2015
Professor Jennifer ClarkYours faithfully: Writing letters for the Council for Aboriginal Rights, 1952–1961
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2014
Dr Michael Davis The Greg Dening papers: using ethnographic history in writing about Aboriginal/European environmental encounters
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2013
Marguerita Stephens Assistant Protector William Thomas and the Kulin people, 1839–1867: the end of things?
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2012
David Pear Percy Grainger's early years: the formation of an Australian
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2011
Jim Davidson Bigger than little: literary magazine culture in Melbourne between 1940 and 1988
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2010
Colin Holden Rome in Melbourne: the Piranesi collections in the Baillieu and State Libraries
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2009
Andrew Dodd Unknown genius: the architecture of John James Clark
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2008
Danielle Clode A future in flames: wildfire in a changing climate
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2007
Kristin Otto Capital: Melbourne when it was the capital city of Australia 1901–1927
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2006
Kathleen Fennessy Ploughing with one heifer: colonial Victorians learning the land
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2005
Olivier Burckhardt Pencilled lines on poetry
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Redmond Barry Fellow 2004
Leonarda Kovacic From "lubras" to "belles": representations of Aboriginal women, 1850–1950