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The strength and quality of the research in Late Antique and Byzantine studies being conducted in Australian and New Zealand institutions continues to be demonstrated as individuals attract further grants and awards. The following positions and grants have been awarded since November 1997.
Pauline Allen, Institute of Advanced Research, Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus. ARC Large Grant (1998-2000). John Chrysostom and Severus of Antioch as bishops, preachers and letter writers: Pastoral care and civic administration in Late Antique culture.
Andrew Gillett, Macquarie University. Macquarie University Research Fellowship (1998). Additional year for the project: Post-imperial diplomatic relations in the late Roman empire and early medieval Europe from the fifth to the seventh centuries AD.
Andrew Gillett, Macquarie University. Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (mid to late 1998-2001). Religious and ethnic conflict in the late antique West: Arian Christianity in the Barbarian Kingdoms (fifth to seventh centuries AD).
Wendy Mayer, Centre for Early Christian Studies, Australian Catholic University, McAuley Campus. Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (1998-2000). The Homilies of John Chrysostom: Rehabilitating a Vital Late Antique Historical Source.
Philip Rousseau, Department of History, University of Auckland. From August 1998-August 2001. Visiting Distinguished Professor of Early Christian Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.
In addition, Dr. Erica Hunter, until recently Lecturer in Semitic Studies at Manchester University, returned to Australia in September 1997 to take up an Australian Research Council Fellowship at the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University. She is the current Director of the Series Syriaca of the Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum Project and also the project's Deputy Director. She will be working on material on Manichaeism in the writings of Theodor Bar Khoni, Ephraim Syrus, Titus of Bostra and Severus of Antioch among others. It is hoped that she will also make contributions to the study of Mandaean literature (especially now that there is a Mandaean community from Iraq in Sydney with its own high priest: she has even developed a computer font for the Mandaic script) and on the history of Christian communities in Sassanian Iran and in Central Asia.
Bibliography of Australian and New Zealand Scholarship Published in 1995-1997
The promised bibliographic update will appear in the November issue.
