2025
Ann Curthoys
For profound and significant contributions to scholarly debate and public understanding on historical issues of great importance to Australians, including her consistent and generous mentorship, and with special reference to her influential and groundbreaking scholarship in imperial, women’s Indigenous, public, labour, media, Cold War, and genocide history.
Robert Pascoe
For significant and continued contributions to historical research in migrant, cultural, and urban history, and especially his work to cement the field of sports history as a serious scholarly pursuit, with special reference to his ongoing commitment to history teaching and leadership in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Paul Pickering
For significant contributions to research in British and Australian history, politics, and culture, his championing of public history and collaboration with galleries and museums, and his ongoing commitment to teaching and supervision, with special reference to his work creating and leading the Australian Studies Institute.
Michelle Rayner
For significant and innovative contributions to history in Australia through the production of history documentaries for radio, her leadership in history broadcasting at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and her ongoing advocacy for public history radio programming, with special reference to her work in the field of oral history.
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, and for her service to the Australian Historical Association in various roles including as President.
Joan Beaumont
For her distinguished contributions to historical scholarship, mentoring and leadership, with special reference to her work on the world wars and Australian foreign and defence policy, and for her service as an advocate for historical inquiry in key public and policy forums.
Diane Kirkby
For sustained and distinguished contributions to historical scholarship, mentoring and leadership, with special reference to her role at the forefront of Australian and transnational labour, gender and legal history, and for her service to the profession as editor of important historical journals and officeholder in multiple historical organisations.
2023
David Carment
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship, biography, heritage, mentoring and leadership, with special reference to Northern Territory history and heritage, and service to the Australian Historical Association in various roles including as President.
Henry Reynolds
For his singular mark on Australian history and law, especially in the field of Indigenous history, through distinguished contributions to scholarship, education and mentoring, and the advancement of public historical knowledge and debate.
Iain McCalman
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship in a wide range of fields, education and academic leadership in the humanities, and peerless public dissemination of historical knowledge beyond the academy.
Marilyn Lake
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship in a wide range of fields, education, mentoring and academic leadership, with special reference to her pioneering role in women’s, gender and transnational history, and her service to the Australian Historical Association in various roles including as President.
Marian Quartly
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship in a wide range of fields, education, mentoring, journal editing, and academic leadership in history and the humanities more generally, with special reference to service to the Australian Historical Association in various roles including as founding editor of History Australia.
Patricia Grimshaw
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship in a wide range of fields, education, mentoring and academic leadership in history and the humanities more generally, with special reference to her role in pioneering women’s history in Australia.
Shurlee Swain
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship, teaching and mentoring, and academic leadership in history and the humanities more generally, with special reference to her record of community engagement and policy impact.
2022
Joy Damousi
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship, mentoring, journal editing, and academic leadership in history and the humanities more generally, with special reference to service with the Australian Historical Association in various roles including President.
John Maynard
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship, mentoring, journal editing, and academic leadership in history and his commitment to Indigenous education.
Lyndall Ryan
For distinguished contributions to Australian history, especially Aboriginal history, including the ground-breaking Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930 map.
Penny Russell
For distinguished contributions to historical scholarship, mentoring, journal editing, and academic leadership in history and women’s studies.