Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences

Our areas of research include gender and women's history; refugees, migration and humanitarian studies; social and political change; British empire and Atlantic world history; Australian colonialism and Indigenous history; political economy; and literary studies.

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Our global team of scholars are experts in the fields of history, politics, sociology, and literature.

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Higher Degree Research

Applications to the PhD and MPhil programs are now open and close 11.59pm AEST 24 April 2022. Scholarships available for domestic and international students. .

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Research Centre for Refugees, Migration and Humanitarian Studies

The Research Centre for Refugees, Migration, and Humanitarian Studies explores the experiences of refugees across the world.

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Research Centre for Social and Political Change

The Research Centre for Social and Political Change explores realignments of power and how to theorise them.

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Gender and Women’s History Research Centre

Gender and Women’s History Research Centre explores the experience of a diverse array of women and men in times past.

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News and events

Appointment of two literature scholars to ACU’s Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences

31 March 2022

ACU’s Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) is pleased to announce the recent appointment of two scholars of literature.

The Shortest History of the Soviet Union

24 February 2022

Eminent historian Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick has written many long, thorough books. But her newest book makes a virtue of accessibility.

Blue collars a red flag for Covid health

3 February 2022

Australians who live in a suburb with a high proportion of blue-collar workers are far more likely to have had Covid than those in a white-collar area.

ACU researchers win over $2 million in grants

17 January 2022

ACU researchers have been awarded more than $2 million in Australian Research Council grants.

ACU historian elected to Australian Academy of the Humanities

29 November 2021

ACU historian Shino Konishi has been acknowledged as one of Australia's top humanities researchers, with her election as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.

ACU academics win NSW Premier’s Literary Awards

27 April 2021

Two ACU academics have been awarded prizes in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.

White Russians, Red Peril

15 April 2021

"White Russians, Red Peril", A new book uncovering by ACU's Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick uncovers the little known history of Russian migration to Australia.

Should we live forever?

6 April 2021

ACU sociologist Professor Bryan Turner has been invited to speak in a prestigious Oxford Union Debate on the topic of Immortality.

ACU Professor wins award for best reference book

17 February 2021

ACU’s leadership in humanities has been further recognised with a prominent book award for one of our senior researchers.

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