Australian History Awards
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The Allan Martin Award
This biennial award has been named for A. W. Martin (1926–2002) and is administered jointly by the Australian National UniversityAustralian National University
The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
and The Australian Historical Association. The award is to encourage "early career historians" for work relating to Australian History. Submissions for this award are to be work that is being prepared for publication and can be in any form, e.g. a monograph, a series of academic articles, an exhibition or documentary film, or some mix of these.
- 2004: Maria Nugent for Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet (Allen & Unwin)
- 2006: No award made
- 2008: Dr Fred Cahir for Black gold: aboriginal peoples and gold in Victoria 1850-1870
- 2008: Highly Commended: Dr Keir Reeves for Wild onions: a history of Chinese gold-seekers in the Pearl River Delta region of China and the Central Victorian goldfields.
- 2010: No award made
Blackwell AHA Prize
The publishers, Blackwell Publishing Asia, have sponsored a prize for the best postgraduate paper at a Regional Conference.The AHA information states that the "prize will be judged on two criteria: 1) oral presentation of the paper 2) written version of the conference paper. The written version of the conference paper (not a longer version) is to be submitted at the start of the conference. The winner of the prize will be announced at the close of the conference."
- 2007 Winners
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- Melissa Bellanta (University of SydneyUniversity of SydneyThe University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
) for Raiders of the Lost Civilisation, or, Adventure-Romances of the Australian Desert, 1890-1907, and - Nell Musgrove (University of MelbourneUniversity of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
) for Private Homes, Public Scrutiny: Surveillance of 'the family' in postwar Melbourne
- Melissa Bellanta (University of Sydney
WK Hancock Prize
The WK Hancock Prize is run by Australian Historical Association (AHA) with the Department of Modern History, Macquarie UniversityMacquarie University
Macquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...
. It was instituted in 1987 in honour of Sir Keith Hancock
Keith Hancock
Sir Keith Hancock KBE was an Australian historian.He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Archdeacon William Hancock. At the age of nine, he won the Royal Humane Society's medal for rescuing another child from drowning in the Mitchell River. He was educated at Melbourne Grammar School...
and his life achievements.
The award is for the first book of history by an Australian scholar and for research using original sources. It is awarded biennially for a first book published in the preceding two years with the award presented at the AHA's National Biennial Conference.
- 2004 Winners
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- Mary Anne Jebb for Blood, Sweat and Welfare: a History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers (UWA Press, 2002)citation
- Warwick Anderson for The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia (Melbourne University Press, 2002)http://www.theaha.org.au/HANCOCK%20PRIZE%20CITATION%202004.doc
- Highly Commended
- John Connor for The Australian Frontier Wars: 1788-1838 (University of New South Wales Press)
- Brigid Hains for The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn, and the Myth of the Frontier (Melbourne University Press)
- 2006 Winner Tony Roberts for Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900 (UQP, 2005)
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- Maria Nugent for Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet (Allen & Unwin, 2005)
- Sue Taffe for Black and White Together, FCAATSI 1958-1972 (UQP, 2005)
- 2008 Winner: Robert Kenny for The Lamb enters the Dreaming: Nathaniel Pepper and the Ruptured World (Scribe Publications, 2007)
- 2008 Highly Commended
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- Tracey Banivanua-Mar for Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade (University of Hawaii Press, 2007)
- 2010: Dr Natasha Campo for From Superwomen to Domestic Goddesses: the rise and fall of Feminism Peter Lang, 2009
- 2010 Commendation
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- Dr Clare Corbould for Becoming African Americans" Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 Harvard University Press, 2009
The Kay Daniels Award
Inaugurated in 2004, this award is named for Kay Daniels(1941–2001), historian and public servant, and recognises her interest in colonial and heritage history.The biennial award will be administered by The Australian Historical Association.
- 2004: Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stuart (eds) for Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives (Melbourne University Press)
- 2006: Trudy Mae Cowley for A Drift of 'Derwent Ducks: Lives of the 200 Female Irish Convicts Transported on the Australasia from Dublin to Hobart in 1849 (Research Tasmania, Hobart, 2005)Review
- 2008: Kirsty Reid for Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia
- 2010: Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stuart for Closing Hell's Gates: the Death of a Convict Station (Allen & Unwin 2008)
The Serle Award
The Serle Award was first presented in 2002. The award was established through the generosity of Mrs Jessie Serle for the historian Geoffrey SerleGeoffrey Serle
Geoffrey Serle AO was an Australian historian, who is perhaps best known for his books on the colony of Victoria; The Golden Age and The Rush to be Rich and his biographies of John Monash, John Curtin and Robin Boyd....
(1922–1998).
The Serle Award is for the best thesis by an "early career researcher" and will be payable on receipt of publisher’s proofs, which must be within twelve months of notification of the award.
The biennial award will be administered by The Australian Historical Association.
- 2005 Winner: Bartolo Ziino for A distant grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (University of MelbourneUniversity of MelbourneThe University of Melbourne is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. Founded in 1853, it is the second oldest university in Australia and the oldest in Victoria...
, PhD 2003)
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- Commendation: Catherine Mary Gilchrist for Male Convict Sexuality in the Penal Colonies of Australia 1820-1850 (University of SydneyUniversity of SydneyThe University of Sydney is a public university located in Sydney, New South Wales. The main campus spreads across the suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington on the southwestern outskirts of the Sydney CBD. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and Oceania...
, PhD 2004)
- Commendation: Catherine Mary Gilchrist for Male Convict Sexuality in the Penal Colonies of Australia 1820-1850 (University of Sydney
- 2006 Winner: Jessie Mitchell for Flesh, Dreams and Spirit: Life on Aboriginal Mission Stations 1825-1850 A History of Cross-Cultural Connections (ANUAustralian National UniversityThe Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...
PhD thesis, 2005)
- 2008: Marina Larsson for The Burdens of Sacrifice: War Disability in Australian Families, 1914-1939 (Latrobe University PhD 2006)
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- Olwen Valda Pryke for Australia House: Representing Australia in Great Britain 1901-1939 (University of Sydney PhD 2006)
- Robert Bollard for The Active Chorus: The Mass Strike of 1917 in Eastern Australia (Victoria University PhD 2007)
- 2010: Dr Simon Sleight for
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- Dr Malcolm Allbrook for Imperial Family: the Prinseps, Empire and Colonial Government in India and Australia (Griffith University PhD 2008)
- Dr Clare McLisky for "Settlers on a Mission" Faith, Power and Subjectivity in the Lives of Danial and Janet Matthews (University of Melbourne PhD 2008)
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See also
- New South Wales Premier's History AwardsNew South Wales Premier's History AwardsThe State Government of New South Wales, Australia established the Premier's History Awards in 1997. In 2005 the name of the awards was changed to NSW History Awards...
- List of Australian literary awards
- Victorian Community History AwardsVictorian Community History AwardsThe Victorian Community History Awards were inaugurated and sponsored by Information Victoria Bookshop from 1998 to 2010. From 2011 the Awards were administered by the Royal Historical Society of Victoria in partnership with Public Record Office Victoria...
- Northern Territory History AwardsNorthern Territory History AwardsThe Chief Minister of Northern Territory History Book Award began in 2004. The award was created to recognise "the scholarly, literary and creative achievements" of Australian writers and to encourage the documenting of history of the Northern Territory...
- Prime Minister's Prize for Australian HistoryPrime Minister's Prize for Australian HistoryThe Prime Minister's Prize for Australian History was created by the Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard following the Australian History Summit held in Canberra on 17 August 2006. The Summit looked at how the Australian Government could strengthen Australian history in the school curriculum...