Deakin University Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Michael Lazarus, is one of ten humanities researchers to receive essential funds to conduct groundbreaking research in the latest round of the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ Travelling Fellowships.
The Fellowships enable early career researchers to undertake research overseas, where they may access archives, connect with international organisations and forge new networks with other researchers.
About the Australian Academy of the Humanities
The Academy is an independent, not-for-profit organisation with a Fellowship of over 730 humanities leaders. Our Academy is one of Australia’s five Learned Academies – independent organisations established to encourage excellence in their respective fields and to provide expertise and advice at public, institutional and government levels.
As part of the fellowship, Dr Lazarus will be undergoing research as part of a project titled ‘The moral citizenship and the origins of the human condition: lessons from Arendt’s archives’.
Dr Lazarus will travel to Washington D.C. and New York to access unpublished materials of philosopher Hannah Arendt. Dr Lazarus’s research will develop Arendt’s distinctive idea of ‘the right to have rights’ to grasp the connection between moral value and citizenship, and the requirement for this idea to be revised to adequately account for the moral experience of work.
His research will contribute and advance academic and non-academic understandings of Hannah Arendt’s idea of moral citizenship by conducting archival research and communicating results to scholarly and popular audiences.
Dr Lazarus said being selected as one of ten Humanities Travelling Fellows in Australia was a great honour:
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