 Recipients have come from all faculties in the University, and have included visual artist Callum Cooper, Opera Australia principal artist Christopher Field, (2002) and historians Alana Harris (2003), and Benjamin Mountford (2008).Poet Judith Bishop won the award in 1994 and completed a thesis on the poetry of Yves Bonnefoy at the University of Cambridge.The Robert Wallace Chair of English at the University of Melbourne, Professor Deirdre Coleman was one of the inaugural recipients in 1979.