The ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe
1100 - 1800) employs specialist Research Fellows who make a unique
contribution to a particular aspect of our research.
Research Fellows:
Dr Merridee Bailey
Dr Andrew Lawrence King
Dr Claire McIlroy
Dr Grace Moore
Prof Jacqueline Van
Gent
Research Associates:
Alicia Marchant
Rebecca Millar
Research Fellows:
Dr Merridee
Bailey
University of Adelaide
Dr Merridee Bailey was appointed as a five-year Research Fellow
based at the University of Adelaide in the Change program. She is
investigating emotional discourses surrounding merchant practices
in London over the late medieval and early modern period, c.
1450-1650. Drawing on an array of archival materials, from court
records to popular printed didactic texts, she is examining the
central role of emotions and morality in London merchant activities
and the ways in which moral virtues, vices and emotional
expressions of good economic conduct were represented. In addition,
her research investigates the language of emotions in legal and
literary texts. Her project revises our ideas of medieval and early
modern merchants, showing that emotions and morality were at the
core of economic activity.
Email: merridee.bailey@adelaide.edu.au
Dr Andrew
Lawrence-King
University of Western Australia
Dr Andrew Lawrence-King is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow with
the Centre, working with Professor Jane Davidson on early
17th Century baroque opera performance practices. Andrew
Lawrence-King is a harpist and early music specialist, and is
currently the director of The Harp Consort. He also is also a
conductor who directs from one of several continuo instruments,
including harp, organ, harpsichord & psaltery. In 2011 Dr
Lawrence King won a coveted grammy award as harp soloist in the
category of Best Small Ensemble Performance, performing alongside
Jordi Savall.
Dr Claire McIlroy
University of Western Australia
Claire McIlroy is the CHE International Research Liaison Officer
responsible for forging links with international scholars working
in the field, identifying opportunities for collaboration and joint
funding initiatives with international research centres and
cultural heritage organizations, drafting funding applications and
the general promotion of CHE activities to the wider global
research community. She also manages the activities of the
European-based Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through
a Medieval European Network (CARMEN), is the Vice President
(Australia) of the Australia and New Zealand Association for
Medieval and Early Modern Studies and is a member of a number of
editorial boards. She previously coordinated the ARC Network for
Early European Research (NEER).
Dr Grace Moore
The University of Melbourne
Grace Moore is a Senior Research Fellow in the Shaping the Modern
program. Her primary research project is an examination of
the representation of bushfires in nineteenth-century settler
literature, which will lead to a book, Arcady in Flames.
Grace's recent research projects include an essay on emotional
responses to arson in novels and the periodical press, combining
the work of Brian Massumi with readings of popular short stories
and a novella by Anthony Trollope. With Stephanie Trigg, she
will be producing a fire source book for high school
children. Grace will also be convening the 'Fire Stories'
symposium, which will take place at the University of Melbourne in
December 2013.
Professor Jacqueline Van
Gent
University of Western Australia
Jacqueline Van Gent is an early modern historian with special
research expertise in the fields of early modern gender, religion
and colonialism. Jacqueline's research at the Centre for the
History of Emotions explores the ways in which emotions and
material culture are at the core of early modern colonial
encounters. She draws on a variety of textual and material sources
connected to the Dutch and Swedish East India companies, Moravian
missionaries and indigenous converts and Swedish explorers of the
eighteenth century. As part of the project she is studying the
representation of these material objects and their emotional
resonances in contemporary museum exhibitions.
Research Associates:
- Dr Alicia Marchant
The University of Western Australia
Dr Alicia Marchant is a Research Associate with the Centre,
working on a project with Professor Susan Broomhall that explores
the complex relationship of medieval and early modern objects,
emotions, and place in Scotland. Dr Marchant studied medieval
history and literature as an undergraduate and received her PhD at
the University of Western Australia in 2012. The thesis
was a study of the representation of the revolt of Owain Glyndŵr in
English chronicle narratives from 1400 to c.1580. She
currently lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
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- Rebecca Millar
The University of Western Australia
Rebecca Millar is a CHE Research Associate, working with Professor
Susan Broomhall on the Zest Festival project. Rebecaa, who
holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Environmental Horticulture) is
currently the Zest Festival Coordinator. Rebecca has had 15 years'
experience working with dynamic teams to create long lasting change
within rural and urban communities integrating ecological, social
and economic goals to create sustainable landscapes. Rebecca is
working with the community and partners to curate the five year
Zest Festival. The festival is a vehicle for attracting and
enriching Australians' and international visitors' cultural
experience while providing a platform for the local community and
indigenous community to share their culture. She lives in Kalbarri
Western Australia where the people, history and landscape have
inspired her to devote her time to creating a sustainable community
and exploring our culture.
