Geoffrey Brown, who earned his doctorate in East European history, is in Monash for a three-month research project on the anti-communist activism of the Czechoslovak community in Australia from 1950 to 1990.
Dr Brown will research his topic through the Czech-language press in Australia, particularly the newspaper Hlas domova (Voice of the Homeland) published in Melbourne between 1950 and 1979, and the succeeding periodical Hlasy (Voices), published until 1990. Some of these newspaper editions are held at Monash University Library as part of the Ada Booth Slavic Collection, while other editions are available at the State Library of Victoria. He will also conduct interviews with members of the local Czech and Slovak communities. Dr Brown's project will help promote scholarly interest in Australia in the history of East European emigre communities.
He is one of four international scholars who have received an Ada Booth Research Fellowship in Slavic Studies offered by Monash University Library. The fellowships aim to promote the use of the Slavic collection and to support and strengthen the Slavic Studies community in Australia by funding research, through a benefaction from the late Ada Phyllis Booth (1921-2008), physicist and lecturer at the University of Melbourne.
These four scholars will present their research as lightning talks at the Melbourne Eurasianist Seminar Series on 19 October at the University of Melbourne. Dr Brown will also deliver a public talk at a later date.
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| Dr Geoffrey Brown |
The Library's Ada Booth Slavic Collection has extensive resources in Ukrainian, Russian and other Slavic languages, Slavic Australiana, Soviet studies, migrant and diaspora literature and culture.
To find out more about his research, please contact Dr Brown via email.
For more information about the Ada Booth Research Fellowship or the Library's Slavic Studies collection, visit the webpage or contact the Ada Booth Librarian, Anna Rubinowski at the Sir Louis Matheson Library, Clayton campus.
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