The Serle Award 2008 ($2500)
The Australian Historical Association has constituted the Serle Award as
a biennial prize to commemorate the contribution to Australian History of
Geoffrey Serle (1922-1998). The Award has been established through the generosity
of Mrs Jessie Serle. It takes the form of a $2500 publishing subsidy for
the postgraduate thesis in Australian History completed and examined during
the previous two-year period judged most deserving of a publication subsidy.
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Serle Award 2005
Congratulations to Bartolo Ziino, University of Melbourne, for being awarded the Serle Award for 2005 for his thesis "A distant grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War" (University of Melbourne, PhD 2003)Judges citation [Word document]
2005 Commendation
Catherine Mary Gilchrist was commended for her thesis "Male Convict
Sexuality in the Penal Colonies of Australia 1820-1850". (University
of Sydney, PhD 2004)
