Congratulations to Matthew Firth and Aditya Balasubramanian, recipients of the 2025 ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Matthew’s project, entitled ‘Contesting Conquests: Pre-Modern Attempts to Come to Terms with the
Congratulations to Ruby Ekkel, winner of the inaugural Kay Schaffer Award for best unpublished essay on storytelling (broadly defied) in Australian Studies. Ruby’s essay, “‘Friends with wild nature’: Intimacy, expertise,
Congratulations to Tets Kimura, Lauren Samuelsson and Annemarie McLaren, winners of the 2024 InASA ECR Publication Subsidy Scheme. These subsidies will be used to support the publication of the following
Congratulations to Cam Coventry and Jordy Silverstein, winners of the 2023 John Barrett Award (InASA). The John Barrett Award for Australian Studies is awarded annually to an article published in
Congratulations to Aditya Balasubramanian, whose book Towards a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Princeton University Press) has been longlisted for the New India Foundation (NIF) Kamaladevi
Congratulations to the shortlisted applicants for the 2024 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in the Australian History category! AHA Vice-President Kate Fullagar‘s Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled was among the
The AHA welcomes Expressions of Interest for the following range of annual and biennial prizes. EOIs need only contain the name of the award for which you intend to nominate/submit,
Congratulations to Jillian Graham, winner of the 2024 National Biography Award’s Michael Crouch Award for a Debut Work! Jillian’s book Inner Song: A Biography of Margaret Sutherland (MUP, 2023) was
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
Congratulations to Margaret Cook, winner of Griffith University’s 2024 Pro Vice Chancellor (Science) Excellence in Research Impact Award! This accolade recognises the way Margaret used her book, A River with
Congratulations to the recipients of the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2024 Humanities Travelling Fellowships. Among the recipients are several valued members of the AHA: The Academy’s Executive Director, Inga
Congratulations to Michelle Bootcov, recipient of the Mike Smith Student Prize for her essay entitled “Robert Kirk: Blood, genetics, race and rights in the mid to late twentieth century’”. This
Congratulations to Jared Davidson, winner of the Australian & Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network’s Public Environmental History Prize 2024! Jared’s book Blood and Dirt (2023) and its associated public
Congratulations to Meg Foster, recipient of one of the ABC Top 5 Humanities residencies for 2024! Meg was selected for her research on ‘histories of bushranging, crime and colonialism, as
Congratulations to Jillian Graham, shortlisted candidate for the 2024 National Biography Award! Jillian’s book Inner Song: A Biography of Margaret Sutherland (MUP, 2023, recently shortlisted for the Magarey Medal for
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