About our People
Professor Brian Galligan and Dr Millsom Henry-Waring are joint Chief Investigators on our project. The project team also includes Dr Martina Boese (Post-Doctoral Fellow), Ms Melissa Phillips (PhD/ APAI Candidate) and Ms Dora Horvath (Research Assistant).
Professor Brian Galligan Brian Galligan has been a Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne since 1995, and is one of the joint Chief Investigators on the Project. He was previously a Professor in the Research School of Social Science at the Australian National University. He is a graduate in Economics and Commerce from the University of Queensland, and has a Masters and PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto.Brian?s research interests include Australian political history, political economy and public policy; Comparative federalism and constitutional design; Citizenship, multiculturalism, immigration, minorities and rights protection. His publications include two jointly authored books: ?Australian Citizenship? (2004, Melbourne University Press, with Winsome Roberts) and ?Citizens Without Rights: Aborigines and Australian Citizenship? (1997, Cambridge Univeristy Press, with John Chesterman). T: +61 3 8344 6562 For link to staff profile, click here. | Dr Millsom Henry-Waring Millsom Henry-Waring is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Melbourne and is one of the joint Chief Investigators on the Project. She joined the University of Melbourne in February 2003. Prior to Australia, Millsom was based in the UK and graduated from Durham and Stirling Universities. She received her PhD at Monash University in 2002, which was awarded the prestigious ?The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) Jean Martin Award for the Best Sociology Thesis in Australia? 2003/4. Millsom?s research and teaching draws upon various perspectives including those from Critical Black Studies; Gender/Women?s Studies; and Post-Colonial Studies used to explore notions of visibility, difference, otherness, blackness and whiteness, specifically in the areas of identity, intimacy, popular culture, new technologies, nationalism and multiculturalism. For link to staff profile, click here. |
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| Dr Martina Boese Martina Boese is the Post-Doctoral Fellow on the project. Prior to this appointment she held research posts at the University of Vienna, the Centre for Social Innovation, and most recently the Research and Policy Centre of the Brotherhood of St Laurence in Melbourne. She holds Masters degrees in Sociology and Legal Studies from the University of Vienna, and completed her PhD in Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Martina has contributed to research projects in the areas of employment and self-employment of migrants, refugee settlement and young people?s transition from school to work. Her research foci and publications also cover racism and social exclusion, the cultural industries and third sector agency. T: +61 3 8344 3503 For link to staff profile, click here. |  |
| Ms Dora Horvath Dora Horvath is the Research Assistant on the project. Dora is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, and holds a Masters Degree in International Relations from the Corvinus University Budapest in Hungary. Her current research interests include cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism in the postmodern, citizenship, representations of belonging, and European integration as a postnational project. Prior to her PhD, her Masters thesis explored the nexus of multiculturalism and immigration in Australia. She has experience in grant and project management inn the academic and business environment. Prior to this appointment, she held the centre coordinator position at the National Europe Centre at the Research School of Humanities in the ANU. T: +61 3 8344 9485 |  |
| Ms Melissa Phillips Melissa Phillips is the PhD / Australian Postgraduate Award Industry (APAI) candidate for project. Melissa has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of New South Wales, and a Master of Arts in Applied Anthropology and Development from Macquarie University. She also has over 10 years experience working with refugees and asylum-seekers in Australia, the United Kingdom and most recently Southern Sudan. Her work in Australia has included casework with detained asylum seekers and settlement policy/advocacy with the Refugee Council of Australia. She also managed a government-funded refugee settlement programme in metropolitan Sydney and regional New South Wales. In 2005 Melissa was seconded to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) in Southern Sudan. She lived in Juba (Southern Sudan) up to 2009 working with both the UN and NGOs. Melissa has also published articles and reports in the field. T: +61 3 8344 9485 |  |