The AHA administers a range of prizes and awards annually and biennially.
The Association is also proud of their partnership with the National Archives of Australia to offer scholarships to postgraduate students, and the Copyright Agency to offer postgraduate bursaries associated with our annual conference and an ECR mentorship scheme.
AHA Higher Degree Researcher/Early Career Researcher Mentoring Scheme
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
AHA Postgraduate Conference Support Scheme
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/Honest History: AHA Conference Teacher Scholarship
Funding Opportunity for Secondary School History Teachers The AHA/Honest History: AHA Conference Teacher Scholarship supports a secondary school History teacher to attend the annual Australian
Allan Martin Award
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
Ann Curthoys Prize
The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher (within 5 years of PhD conferral) in any
Ernest Scott Prize
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
Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Scheme
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
Jill Roe Prize
The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in any area of historical enquiry produced by a
Kay Daniels Award
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
Ken and Amirah Inglis AHA Conference Grants
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
Magarey Medal for Biography
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
Marian Quartly Prize
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,
Marilyn Lake Prize
The Marilyn Lake Prize for best book in Australian Transnational History is a new prize made possible by a generous donation from Professor Marilyn Lake.
NAA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships
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
Other awards, prizes and fellowships
Australian Academy of the Humanities Travelling Fellowships Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award Ernest Scott Prize History Council of South Australia Awards Isaanz Postgraduate
Patrick Wolfe Early Career Researcher Conference Bursary
Description of Award The Australian Historical Association is delighted to announce a new early career researcher bursary for attendance of the annual AHA Conference. The Patrick Wolfe Bursary
Serle Award
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
W.K. Hancock Prize
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