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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 University 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.

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  • 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
  • 2012: Dr Melissa Bellanta, University of Queensland,.
  • 2014: Amanda Kaladelfos for Immigration, Violence and Australia Postwar Politics.

    • 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

    • WK Hancock Prize

    The WK Hancock Prize is run by Australian Historical Association (AHA) 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.

  • 2004 Winners
  • Highly Commended
  • 2006 Winner Tony Roberts for Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900 (UQP, 2005)
  • Highly Commended
  • 2008 Winner:
  • 2008 Highly Commended
  • 2010 Winner:
  • 2010 Commendation
  • 2012 Joint Winners
  • 2012 Commendation
  • 2014 Winner:

    • The John Barrett Award for Australian Studies

    The John Barrett Award for Australian Studies is for the best written article published in the Journal of Australian Studies, in the categories: the best article by a scholar (open) and the best article by a scholar (post-graduate).

    John Barrett Award: Open Category

  • 2014: Nathan Garvey for ‘“Folkalising” Convicts: a “Botany Bay” Ballad and its Cultural Contexts’, JAS, Vol.38 No.1 (March) (2014): 32–51
  • 2014 Highly Commended: Mark McKenna for Tokenism or belated recognition? Welcome to Country and the Emergence of Indigenous Protocol in Australia, 1991–2004 JAS, Vol.38 No.4 (December) (2014): 476–89
  • 2013: Lyndall Ryan. 'The Black Line in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1830', JAS, 37:1 (2013): 3-18.
  • 2012: Zoe Anderson, 'Borders, babies and ‘good refugees’: Australian representations of ‘illegal’ immigration, 1979', JAS, 36:4 (2012): 499-514.

    • John Barrett Award: Postgraduate Category

  • 2013: Not awarded.
  • 2012: Jessica Neath, 'Empty lands: contemporary art approaches to photographing historical trauma in Tasmania', JAS 36:3 (2012): 309-325.

    • 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)
  • 2014: Kristyn Harman for Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles,(UNSW Press 2012)

    • 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).

    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 Melbourne, PhD 2003)
  • 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)
  • 2010: Dr Simon Sleight for The Territories of Youth: Young People and Public Space in Melbourne c1870-1901 (Monash University PhD 2008)
  • 2014: Carolyn Holbrook for The Great War in the Australian Imagination Since 1915.

    • References

    Australian History Awards Wikipedia
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