Australian History Awards
The Allan Martin Award
This biennial award has been named for A. W. Martin[1] (1926–2002) and is administered jointly by the Australian National University and The Australian Historical Association. The award is to encourage "early career historians" for work relating to Australian History.[2] 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.[2]
- 2004: Maria Nugent for Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet (Allen & Unwin)[3]
- 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 [4]
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."[5]
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- Melissa Bellanta (University of Sydney) for Raiders of the Lost Civilisation, or, Adventure-Romances of the Australian Desert, 1890-1907, and
- Nell Musgrove (University of Melbourne) for Private Homes, Public Scrutiny: Surveillance of 'the family' in postwar Melbourne
WK Hancock Prize
The WK Hancock Prize is run by Australian Historical Association (AHA)[6] with the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University. It was instituted in 1987 in honour of Sir Keith Hancock 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.
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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)[3]
- 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)
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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
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- Dr Clare Corbould for Becoming African Americans" Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939 Harvard University Press, 2009[7]
The Kay Daniels Award
Inaugurated in 2004, this award is named for Kay Daniels(1941–2001),[8] historian and public servant,[9] and recognises her interest in colonial and heritage history.
The biennial award will be administered by The Australian Historical Association.[9]
- 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 Serle (1922–1998).[10]
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.[10]
- 2005 Winner: Bartolo Ziino for A distant grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (University of Melbourne, PhD 2003)
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- Commendation: Catherine Mary Gilchrist for Male Convict Sexuality in the Penal Colonies of Australia 1820-1850 (University of Sydney, PhD 2004)
- 2006 Winner: Jessie Mitchell for Flesh, Dreams and Spirit: Life on Aboriginal Mission Stations 1825-1850 A History of Cross-Cultural Connections (ANU 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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- Highly Commended
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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 The Territories of Youth: Young People and Public Space in Melbourne c1870-1901 (Monash University PhD 2008)
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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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