for his project: A Material and Textual Story of Joseph Furphy's "Such is Life": towards an electronic edition of an Australian classic.
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History
'The Nancy Keesing AM Fellowship, honouring key Australian literary figure, author and poet Nancy Keesing AM (1923-1993), was established by her husband, Dr Mark Hertzberg AO (1924–2015), past President of the Library Council of New South Wales.' (https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about-library/fellowships/nancy-keesing-am-fellowship)
Winners
- 2019 winner Kate Forsyth for her project: Charlotte Atkinson: Australia’s first children’s writer.
- 2018 winner Neil James for his project: The A&R Century: A history of Angus and Robertson
- 2016 winner Anne Jamison for her project: "The enjoyment of a good story": Gender and Australian national identity in Catherine Helen Spence's literature for Children.
- 2014 winner Blake Singley for his project: Selling the Modern Housewife: Cookbooks, gender and consumption in Australia.
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2010
winner
Roger Osborne
- 2009 winner Valerie Lawson for her project: A History of Dance in Australia: from 1926 to the present day.
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2007
winner
Roderick J. Fensham
for his project: The Leichhardt Diaries: developing the geographical and historical context of the diaries, 1842-1844.
- 2005 winner Brooke Collins-Gearing For research entitled Tiddas and daughters discourses in Austrailian literature.
- 2004 Jill Julius Matthews For research on Hidden treasures of the Mitchell Library: Sydney periodicals 1900-1930.
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2003
winner
Jeannine Baker
for her project: Australian Women War Correspondents: from World War One to Vietnam.
- 2002 Caroline Viera Jones For research on George Robertson and his contribution to national cultural identity.
- 2001 Maria Nugent For work on Europeans and Aborigines and Botany Bay
- 2000 Patty O'Brien To research post-WW II colonial attitudes in Papua-New Guinea.
- 1999 Sonia Mycak To study the role of Angus & Robertson in the formation of a national body of literature in Australia.
- 1997 Elaine Van Kempen To undertake research for a book on the new theatre as an important element in Australian cultural history
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1996
winner
R. S. Bhathal
for his project: A Biography of the Nineteenth-Century Astronomer John Tebbutt.
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1995
winner
Jennifer Hill
for her project: A Review, Assessment and Survey of Architectural Plans at the State Library of New South Wales.
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1994
inaugural winner
Meg Stewart
for her project: An Overview of the Literary Papers of Nancy Keesing and a New Compilation of Poems.
