Awards and Prizes

The AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship is an award to be offered annually (where feasible) to support career-building publication activities, and attendance at the AHA annual conference in the year

The AHA’s General History Thesis Prize is awarded to the best postgraduate thesis in History (excluding Australian history). General History is understood to be any field of history with a

The HDR/ECR Mentoring Scheme will pair Higher Degree Researchers with Early Career Researchers in a mentor/mentee relationship, creating space for HDRs to ask questions and get advice from somebody who

Each year the Australian Historical Association will honour one or more eminent practitioners of history with a Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is in recognition of a career that has

Funding, writing and mentoring opportunity for postgraduate students and early career researchers.  The Australian Historical Association is offering writing and financial support linked to the AHA annual conference for 6

Funding and mentoring opportunity for postgraduate students and independent historians.  In 2022 the Australian Historical Association is offering writing and financial support linked to the AHA annual conference.   The scheme

The Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. The Award commemorates the contribution to Australian History of A. W.

The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher in any one or combination of the following fields in which Ann has

Please note that this prize is administered by the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne. The Ernest Scott Prize for History is awarded annually to the book judged to be

Funding opportunity for Early Career Researchers.  The Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Scheme supports Early Career Research historians to attend and present at the AHA annual conference.  Funding for

The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work  of historical research in any area of historical enquiry produced by a postgraduate student. The Prize honours

The Kay Daniels Award is a biennial prize recognising outstanding original research with a bearing on Australian convict history and heritage including in its international context. In accordance with Kay

The Ken and Amirah Inglis AHA Conference Grants support a Postgraduate and Early Career Research historian to attend and present at the AHA annual conference.  Funding for this scheme is made possible

The Magarey Medal for Biography is awarded biennially to the female person who has published the work judged to be the best biographical writing on an Australian subject. The Magarey

The Marian Quartly Prize (previously the Taylor and Francis prize) is awarded to the best article published in History Australia in the last calendar year, as judged by the incumbent

The Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History is a biennial prize of $2000 awarded by the Australian Historical Association for the best book in Australian Transnational History. The AHA

National Archives of Australia/Australian Historical Association scholarships assist talented postgraduate scholars with the cost of copying records held in the Archives. For example, scholars may be based in one city and

The 2025 Australian Historical Association (AHA) conference is being hosted jointly by Central Queensland University (CQU) and James Cook University (JCU). To mark this occasion, the AHA 2025 conference committee

Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award Ernest Scott Prize History Council of New South Wales Annual Awards History Council of South Australia Awards HCSA Fellowship Isaanz Postgraduate Essay Prize

Description of Award  The Patrick Wolfe Bursary will be awarded annually until 2029 to assist two early career researchers participate in the AHA annual conference and attend the conference dinner. It is

2024 Angela Woollacott For her distinguished contributions to historical scholarship, heritage, mentoring and leadership, with special reference to her influential work in histories of gender, race, colonialism, transnationalism and biography,

The Serle Award is given to the best postgraduate thesis in Australian history. The Award is a biennial prize to commemorate the contribution to Australian History of Dr Geoffrey Serle

The biennial W.K. Hancock Prize recognises and encourages an Australian scholar who has recently published a first scholarly book in any field of history. The W.K. Hancock Prize was instituted