The AHA Executive Committee is delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2023 AHA prizes and awards. We would like to thank the judges for their work in arriving at their shortlists, and congratulate all the historians on these lists. Winners for all prizes and awards will be announced at the AHA Conference Dinner on Thursday 6 July 2023. (The shortlists below are in alphabetical order of surname.)
Jill Roe Prize
Harrison Croft – ‘Are You Happy Now?’: Gauging Streams and Building Postwar Victoria from the Periphery
Simon Farley – ‘Barbarians and Bird-Butchers’: How Conservationists Constructed a Barrier to Assimilation in Australia
Paige Mahoney – ‘Unfit for Publication’: Reporting Sexual Violence in Colonial Victoria
Allan Martin Award
Rowan Howitt – Undiscovering Emerald Island: Phantom Islands and Environmental Knowledge in Australia’s Southern Ocean World, 1821-1930
Ben Huf – The Economy Is Not A Theory: The Politics of Prosperity in Australia
Sarah Kirby – Inventing Percy Grainger on Page, Stage and Screen
Hannah Murray – Early Australian and US Settler Utopian Writing
AHA General History Thesis Prize
Kathleen Burke – Global Cuisine in the Dutch Indian Ocean Empire
Douglas Pretsell – The Age of the Urning: Queer Identities and Advocacy in Germany, 1864−1897
Freg (James) Stokes – The Hummingbird’s Atlas: Mapping Guaraní Resistance in the Atlantic Rainforest during the Emergence of Capitalism (1500–1768)
Wilbert Wong – Sir Richard Olaf Winstedt and the Historical Creation of ‘Malaya’ and ‘Tanah Melayu’
Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History
Joy Damousi – The Humanitarians: Child War Refugees and Australian Humanitarianism in a Transnational World, 1919-1975, Cambridge University Press, 2022
Jarrod Hore – Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism, University of California Press, 2022
Zoe Laidlaw – Protecting the Empire’s Humanity: Thomas Hodgkin and British Colonial Activism, 1830 – 1870, Cambridge University Press, 2021
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan – Unfree Workers: Insubordination and Resistance in Convict Australia, 1788 – 1860, Palgrave, 2022
Agnieszka Sobocinska – Saving the World? Western Volunteers and the Rise of the Humanitarian-Development Complex, Cambridge University Press, 2021