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.
Members of the AHA Executive Committee are not eligible for prizes and awards during the term of their service.
ECR Prizes: AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship | AHA Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference Awards | Allan Martin Award | Ann Curthoys Award | Ken and Amirah Inglis AHA Conference Grants | Patrick Wolfe Early Career Researcher Conference Bursary | Philippa Hetherington Prize | Serle Award | W.K. Hancock Prize
HDR Prizes: AHA Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference Awards | Jill Roe Prize | Ken and Amira Inglis AHA Conference Grants | NAA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships
AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship
The AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship is an award to be offered annually (where feasible) to support career-building publication activities. The $5,000 Fellowship is funded by donations to the AHA’s
AHA Lifetime Achievement Award
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
AHA Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference Awards
The Australian Historical Association offers financial support linked to the AHA annual conference for up to 6 postgraduates and early career historians, including two Ken and Amirah Inglis Conference Grants. The
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 Australian History of A. W.
Ann Curthoys Prize
The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher in any one or combination of the following fields in which Ann has
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 the book judged to be
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The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in any area of historical enquiry produced by a postgraduate student. The Prize honours
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 context. In accordance with Kay
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 this scheme is made possible
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 an Australian subject. Terms and
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, as judged by the incumbent
Marilyn Lake Prize for Australian Transnational History
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
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 based in one city and
Other awards, prizes and fellowships
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
Patrick Wolfe Early Career Researcher Conference Bursary
The Patrick Wolfe Bursary will be awarded annually until 2029 to assist up to two early career researchers participate in the AHA annual conference and attend the conference dinner. It is funded
Philippa Hetherington Prize
The Philippa Hetherington Prize is awarded to the best postgraduate thesis in General History (excluding Australian history). General History is understood to be any field of history with a focus
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 History of Dr Geoffrey Serle
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 W.K. Hancock Prize was instituted