| Type | Incorporated by Royal Charter |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1969 |
| Location | Canberra, Australia |
| Origins | The Australian Humanities Research Council |
| Key people | Graeme Turner, President; Mark Finnane, Treasurer; Graeme Clarke, Honorary Secretary; Christina Parolin, Executive Director |
| Area served | Humanities |
| Motto | Humani nihil alienum |
| Website | [1] |
The Australian Academy of the Humanities was established by Royal Charter in 1969 to advance scholarship and public interest in the humanities in Australia. To this end the Academy supports:
The Academy comprises a Fellowship of over 400 of the most influential humanists in or associated with Australia. The abbreviation for a Fellow of the Academy is FAHA. The Academy is governed by a Council of Fellows and operated by a Secretariat. It is an independent not-for-profit organisation partly funded by the Australian government.
The following ten disciplines serve as the Fellowship’s electoral sections:
Election to the Academy takes place at the Annual General Meeting, following nomination by Council on the advice of the ten electoral sections.
The President, elected in November 2007, is Professor Ian Donaldson.
As of 31 December 2009, the Academy had Fellows, of which 397 are voting Fellows, 47 are overseas Fellows, and 71 are honorary Fellows.
There are three other Learned Academies in Australia: the Australian Academy of Science (AAS), the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA), and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE). They co-operate by means of the National Academies Forum (NAF).