[ANU Pacific.Institute] FW: PhD scholarship - 'Unfreedom, Voices, Redress: Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific’

[CAP Partnerships]

Dear ANU Pacific Institute subscribers,

This PhD scholarship opportunity may be of interest to you.  Please see below message. For queries, please contact penny.edmonds at flinders.edu.au<mailto:penny.edmonds at flinders.edu.au>.

Regards,
ANU Pacific Institute

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Dear All,



I would appreciate it if you could pass this opportunity on to any of your colleagues or students.



We are seeking an outstanding candidate for a PhD scholarship  for the ARC Discovery Project entitled ‘Unfreedom, Voices, Redress: Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific’ led by Flinders University, Adelaide. (See the flyer attached for further details.)



Ideally, we hope to appoint a Pacific candidate to this position.

Our team is a mix of Pacific and non-Pacific scholars, curators, and artists. Our exciting project, funded by the Australian Research Council, uses fresh scholarly and creative approaches to examine the hidden histories of the Western Pacific’s Anglo and German plantations.

Our team will examine indenture, blackbirding (kidnapping) and other forms of unfreedom, with a focus on gender and mixed-race relationships.



Linking archives in English and German, and foregrounding Pacific voices, especially of women, we will generate new knowledge of plantation lives, the labour trade and its legacies. Working with museums and Pacific artists we will also meet urgent demands for public redress and commemoration around the harm of the 19th-century labour trade.



This large project is based on a partnership between researchers at Flinders University, University of Melbourne and Queensland Museum Kurilpa, with overseas research partners the University of the South Pacific, Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS), Bonn University, Germany, and the Rautenstrausch Joest Museum, Cologne, Germany.



The PhD scholarship will be based at Flinders University, Adelaide, working with the project’s Lead Chief Investigator, Prof. Penny Edmonds, and a second, associate supervisor from Flinders. Further supervision will be provided by one or more members of the research

team.





BENEFITS AND TENURE

The scholarship includes:

• A PhD stipend valued at $36,060 per annum (2026 rate) tax free

• The scholarship will be awarded for 3 years (e.g. mid 2025- mid 2028)



Please note international tuition fees may apply, however, Australian or Aotearoa/NZ

citizens are not subject to tuition fees.



APPLICATIONS

Opening Date: 2nd January 2026 Closing Date: 31st March 2026



Prior to applying for the scholarship, prospective applicants are advised to contact the Project Lead Professor Penny Edmonds on email at

penny.edmonds at flinders.edu.au<mailto:penny.edmonds at flinders.edu.au>  to discuss your interest and eligibility in the opportunity.





Thanks,

Penny



Professor Penny Edmonds

Matthew Flinders Professor, FASSA

College of Human Behaviour and Culture

Flinders University, Kaurna Yerta

P: +61 8 82012456

E: penny.edmonds at flinders.edu.au<mailto:penny.edmonds at flinders.edu.au>

https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/penny.edmonds



Honorary Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language

College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University



New ARC Discovery Grant (2025-28), ‘Unfreedom, Voices, Redress: Plantation Cultures of the Western Pacific’.

Lead CI Professor Penny Edmonds; Professor Deirdre Coleman; Ms Imelda Miller; Professor Dr Pia Wiegmink; Dr Margaret Mishra; Dr Oliver Lueb



Recent publications:

Website:  'Eyewitness to Empire - Reform in the Antipodes’ (2025), based on ARC Future Fellowship FT 110100572. This project resituates important Australian and Antipodean histories back into the larger, global story of human rights by examining the early histories of humanitarianism activism, slavery and colonialism in the Antipodes. 2025.  https://eyewitnesstoempire.com/



Article: ‘Monuments on trial: #BlackLivesMatter, ‘travelling memory’ and the transcultural afterlives of empire, History Australia, vol 19, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/14490854.2021.1994862<https://doi.org/10.1080/14490854.2021.1994862>

Article: ‘The Case of Nie’s Refusal: Gender, Law, and Consent in the Shadow of Pacific Slavery’ Australian Feminist Law Journal,

Sept. 2021; https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2021.1960621





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