We are delighted to announce art historian Mary Roberts was included in the election of 21 new Fellows to the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the highest honour available for achievement in the humanities in Australia.
Fifteen Fellows, three Honorary Fellows and three Corresponding Fellows have been elected at the Academy’s Annual General Meeting on 19 November 2016.
Fellows are elected in recognition of the excellence and impact of their scholarship in the humanities. Honorary Fellows are elected in recognition of their distinguished contribution to the public life of the humanities and the arts, both in Australia and internationally. Corresponding Fellows – a new category in 2016 – are elected in recognition of their outstanding contribution in a field of the humanities and who are not usually resident in Australia.
We congratulate Mary and all new fellows on their achievement and welcome them to the Academy.
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Mary Roberts
John Schaeffer Professor of Art History, University of Sydney
Mary Roberts is one of Australia’s leading art historians whose work focuses on nineteenth-century British and Ottoman art, with particular expertise in Orientalism, the history of artistic exchanges between the Ottoman Empire and Europe, and the culture of travel. She is the author of Istanbul Exchanges: Ottomans, Orientalists and Nineteenth-century Visual Culture (2015), Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature (2007) and the co-editor of The Poetics and Politics of Place: Ottoman Istanbul and British Orientalism, with Reina Lewis and Zeynep İnankur (2011), Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture, with Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones (2005), Orientalism’s Interlocutors, with Jill Beaulieu (2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried, with Jill Beaulieu and Toni Ross (2012).She has received numerous awards and fellowships and is a leading figure in Orientalist and Ottoman art studies.
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