Research
Research grants
Visiting Fellowship
Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program As part of 2024 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program, the Freilich Project is offering a scholar the opportunity to combine research with the work of the Project and the nominated theme of the HRC, which for 2024 is…
Our research
Philanthropy for the Colony: On the use of big giving to entrench the white settler state and defend ‘Western Civilisation’
Philanthropy plays a crucial and often undervalued role in Australian society, but has an uneasy history of domination and control. At its best, philanthropy can foster social inclusion, empower the disenfranchised, and provide ‘risk capital’ for exploratory initiatives that the state is unwilling…
Far-Right Diasporas in the Global South: Mapping Indian Hindu Nationalism in Southeast Asia
The transnational Indian Hindu nationalist movement is history’s largest far-right organisational network and has repeatedly been implicated in mass violence against minorities. This network operates in thirty-eight countries where it lobbies, fundraises, and organises for the Indian far-right. To…
Performing Resistance: A Study of Literary and Theatrical interventions into Australia’s Refugee Crisis
This project explores the role of literature and performance as vehicles for activism in the context of Australia’s ongoing refugee crisis. Prompted by Kurdish-Afghan refugee Behrouz Boochani’s novel ‘No Friend but the Mountains’ (2018), written via SMS during his six years as an asylum seeker…
Publications
COVID-19, Perceived Foreign Interference, and Anti-Chinese Sentiment: Evidence from Concurrent Survey Experiments in Australia and the United States
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge in anti-Chinese sentiment emerged as a pressing issue, with debates on how the pandemic exacerbated such sentiments. To explore this intricate relationship, we conducted two survey experiments, incorporating COVID-specific contextual inquiries in Australia and…
A Cause for Hope or an Unwitting Complicity? The Representation of Cultural Diversity in Award-Listed Children's Picturebooks in Australia
While books can play important roles in helping children develop a positive sense of identity and of their place as equal members of society, evidence shows how the lack of diverse literature contributes to feelings of inferiority and invisibility for children from underrepresented groups as well…