Awards and Prizes

AHA General History Thesis Prize

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

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AHA Early Career Researcher Fellowship

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

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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

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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 annual conference.   The scheme

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The Ann Curthoys Prize is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher in any one or combination of the following fields in which Ann has

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Other awards, prizes and 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 Mary Bennett Prize for Women’s History National

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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

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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

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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The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work  of historical research in any area of historical enquiry produced by a postgraduate student.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

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