New Fellows elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities

Associate Professor Christopher Marshall and Professor Rachel Fensham from the Faculty of Arts are among 30 new humanities scholars elected to the Fellowship of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australia’s highest honour within the humanities.

Associate Professor Marshall is an art historian specialising in Italian Baroque art, contemporary museology, and the socio-economic dimensions of art. Based in the School of Culture and Communication, he is a prolific researcher with a particular interest in contemporary viewing practices.

Professor Fensham is a performance scholar with an international reputation for ground-breaking research in dance and theatre studies as it intersects with spectatorship, archives, and the digital humanities. Trained as an historian and cultural theorist at Melbourne, her forthcoming book examines twentieth century dance costumes as material culture.

The Academy’s new Fellows represent those who have left a lasting mark on their field, and are among the nation’s most influential thinkers, providing insight essential to Australia’s social, cultural and democratic life.

To view the full list of Fellows, visit the Australian Academy of the Humanities website.