Australian Historical Association 2008 Prizes
The Australian Historical Association offers a raft of five biennial prizes; the next round being in 2008. These prizes offer enormous opportunities to early career scholars working in the field of history or across disciplines.
ALL AWARDS are awarded biennially.
For further information: email theaha@humn.mq.edu.au or go to the AHA website at www.theaha.org.au.
The application due date for all five prizes is 28 February
MAGARY MEDAL FOR BIOGRAPHY 2008
This biennial Medal and $10,000 prize is kindly donated by Adjunct Professor Susan Magarey, and is administered and judged by a panel established by the Australian Historical Association and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature. It will be awarded to the female person who has published the work judged to be the best biographical writing on an Australian subject in 2006 or 2007.
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ALLAN MARTIN AWARD 2008
The Allan Martin Award is intended to help early-career historians achieve a public outcome such as a monograph, series of academic articles, exhibition, documentary film, or some mix of these, which will make a significant contribution to the field of Australian history. The $4000 biennial award may be used to cover travel for research purposes, a publication subsidy, a contribution towards exhibition or film production costs, or acquisition of documents or pictorial material: these examples are not exhaustive.
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KAY DANIELS AWARD 2008
This Award has been sponsored by members and associates of the Australian Historical Association, the University of Tasmania, and the Port Arthur Historic Site Management Authority. Consisting of a $1500 prize and citation, it recognizes outstanding original research with a bearing on convict, heritage and/or early colonial history, either Australian or non-Australian published in 2006 or 2007.
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W.K. HANCOCK PRIZE 2008
The W.K. Hancock Prize was instituted in 1987 by the Australian Historical Association to honour the contribution to the study and writing of history in Australia by Sir Keith Hancock. Offering a $2000 prize and citation, it is intended to give recognition and encouragement to an Australian scholar who has recently published a first book in any field of history in 2006 or 2007.
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SERLE AWARD 2008
The Australian Historical Association has constituted the Serle Award as a biennial prize. The Award has been established through the generosity of Mrs Jessie Serle and takes the form of a publishing subsidy of $2500 for the best postgraduate thesis in Australian History completed and examined during the previous year.
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