Research that builds on sound historical understanding to probe the coordinates of our world
Humanities research evolves from rigorous inquiry into our collective cultural, linguistic, ethical, and artistic architectures for being in the world.
Our research strengths include:
- Australian and Indigenous histories and cultures, modern and early modern European societies, ancient worlds, art history, and museum and curatorial practice
- Modernism and its aftermaths: the cluster of experiments and artistic achievements that reinvented the world between 1880 and 1940, and their consequences
- meanings, values, and politics of heritage across diverse contexts, including heritage theory, community-led preservation, heritage languages and intercultural communication;
- creative practice, including creative writing in diverse media and genres, and creative industries and cultural policy research, including on creative ecosystems, economies, publics, institutions and values
- Philosophy of mind and cognitive science, epistemology, ethics, bioethics, social/political philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of logic and language, philosophy of science
For a full list of specialities in the School of Humanities, see Our Study Areas.
