Awards and Prizes

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 3

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 AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship is an award expected to be offered annually designed to support career-building publication activities, and attendance at the AHA annual conference in the year

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

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 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

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

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 will be awarded annually until

The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher in any one or combination of the following fields in which Ann has

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

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 Essay Prize in Irish Studies

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

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

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