Fellows

Under the RHA Constitution, there are two categories of membership, members and Fellows.

Fellows are chosen in recognition of outstanding contributions to the purposes of the Association.  They are elected for life after nomination by two members of the Association to the Secretary and confirmation by a quorum in attendance at the annual general meeting.

       Deryck GTrompf1a          Edwin Judge

Deryck Schreuder                     Garry Trompf                              Edwin Judge

 

GeoffOddie_4                LFrappell1          Dr.Stuart-Piggin-03-2

Geoff Oddie                               Leighton Frappell                     Stuart Piggin        

 

Hilary Carey #2

Hilary Carey

 

Citation for award of Honorary Fellowship of the Religious History Association

To Professor Hilary Carey

The Religious History Association and the Journal of Religious History owe a great debt to the initiative and vision of Hilary Carey. As editor of the Journal of Religious History she did much to raise the journal’s profile and lay the foundations for its present flourishing state. As founding president of the Religious History Association she again put in place many of the measures which have enabled the Association to raise the profile of religious history in Australia as well as providing oversight of the journal.  Professor Carey managed to do this while also fulfilling other demanding administrative duties at the University of Newcastle, NSW leading to her present appointment as head of the School of Humanities at Bristol University.

A dedicated scholar she also continued to achieve considerable recognition for her publications and, unusually, did so in two fields: medieval astrology and the interconnections between modern imperialism and religion especially in the British Empire. Recent works still exhibit this considerable range and versatility: they include God’s Empire. Religion and Colonisation in the British World  (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011) and ‘Henry VII’s Book of Astrology and the Tudor Renaissance’, Renaissance Quarterly, 65 (2012), 661-710.

She was also a co-author with the Association’s deputy-president, Glen O’Brien, of the recently published history of Methodism in Australia. As a moving spirit in the revitalisation of the Journal of Religious History, the foundation of the Religious History Association and as a distinguished scholar in the field of religious history Prof. Carey amply merits recognition as an honorary fellow of the Association.