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Learn MoreStudy Abroad at the Great Barrier Reef
This course takes students to Townsville, Australia—home to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority—to explore the complex political, economic, and societal contexts within which the GBR exists. . Addressing these questions requires a level of engagement that transcends glossy tourist brochures and sensationalist news headlines.
Learn MoreUndergraduate Research and Mentorship Program
Launched in 2013, the Clark Center’s Undergraduate Research and Mentorship Program offers outstanding undergraduate students opportunities to gain firsthand research and professional experience that enhances their time-management skills, analytical capacities, and ability to work collaboratively.
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Queensland Parliament, 2026, with Sam O'Connor, Minister for Housing and Public Works and Minister for Youth. Photo: Rhonda Evans.
Research, Teaching, and Public Programs
UT's research center on Australia and New Zealand.
On the Forty Acres, the Clark Center supports faculty and graduate scholarship through a small-grants program, promotes the study of Australia and New Zealand through a network of research affiliates, and runs its own multi-year research projects on constitutional courts, the global reach of Australian café culture, and the politics of the Great Barrier Reef. That research generates opportunities for undergraduates to gain firsthand research experience.
Through its public events, the Center brings Australian and New Zealand perspectives into campus conversations about some of the most pressing challenges facing the world today, including security and trade issues in the Indo-Pacific and meeting global demand for critical minerals. Every year, the Center offers courses about Australia, including a May Term to the Great Barrier Reef. And it serves as a critical node in the North American network of scholars of the region, including the Center for Australian, New Zealand and Pacific Studies at Georgetown University and the Australian and New Zealand Studies Association of North America.
Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies
Rhonda L. Evans, J.D., Ph.D., Director