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The AHA was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians – academic, professional and other – working in all fields of history. We have over 900 members represented by an Executive Committee that draws its members from all over the country. The Association holds an annual conference and administers a portfolio Read more ...
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, and is proudly published by Taylor & Francis. All members of the AHA receive a subscription to the journal. History Australia aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia Read more ...
The AHA has written to members of the crossbench to urge them to vote against the Commonwealth government’s proposed cuts to humanities funding. You can read these letters below. The AHA would also encourage members, especially those located in the constituencies of Senator Lambie and the Centre Alliance, to contact their representatives individually if you Read more ...
The Australian Historical Association recognises the critical importance of postgraduate students to the Australian history profession, and to the intellectual and civic life of the nation. As today’s report from the University of Sydney indicates, our postgraduate students are, in the context of COVID-19 and its impacts, facing significant challenges in terms of living standards Read more ...
History Australia is the official journal of the Australian Historical Association, and is proudly published by Taylor & Francis. All members of the AHA receive a subscription to the journal. History Australia aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia Read more ...
At the AHA AGM, held online on Thursday 2 July at 5.00pm, the following office bearers and ordinary members were elected to the Executive Committee: President: Melanie Oppenheimer Vice President: Frank Bongiorno Secretary: Noah Riseman Treasurer: Romain Fathi Ordinary Members: Nancy Cushing, Benjamin Jones, Amanda Nettelbeck, Emily O’Gorman and Laura Rademaker Postgraduate rep: Joshua Black ECR rep: Chelsea Barnett, Joel Barnes and Anna Temby Immediate Past President: Joy Damousi Read more …
The AHA Executive Committee is delighted to announce the shortlists for the 2020 AHA Prizes and Awards. We would like to thank the judges for their work in arriving at their shortlists. The AHA and judges congratulate all the historians on the below shortlists. The Magarey Medal for Biography is awarded biennially to the female person who Read more …
Dear AHA Members The 2020 AHA AGM will take place as scheduled, despite the cancellation of the AHA annual Conference due to COVID-19. The meeting is open to all financial members of the AHA and we strongly encourage you to attend. The Agenda and other documentation will be circulated closer to the date, but please Read more …
After full and extensive consultation with the AHA membership, a list describing where various measurements have been applied to journals has been created. The AHA Executive decided that the AHA would not rank journals itself but rather provide members with a compilation of existing journal metrics (eg Scimago, H-index, impact factors). The idea behind the Read more …
As a result of COVID-19, there are three urgent matters arising relating to the Australian Historical Association. AHA Annual Conference 2020 It is with great regret that, given the latest developments with COVID-19, the AHA conference will not go ahead from 29 June-3rd July 2020 at Deakin University. With recent government directives on health and safety and the restrictions Read more …
The AHA has written to members of the crossbench to urge them to vote against the Commonwealth government’s proposed cuts to humanities funding. You can read these letters below. The AHA would also encourage members, especially those located in the constituencies of Senator Lambie and the Centre Alliance, to contact their representatives individually if you Read more …
The Australian Historical Association was delighted to announce the winners of its 2020 annual and biennial prizes and awards on Thursday 2 July 2020 at the AHA Annual General Meeting. (Click on links to read judges’ citations.) The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in any Read more …
Winner: Jeremy Martens, ‘The Mrs Freer case revisited: marriage, morality and the state in interwar Australia,’ History Australia 16.3 (2019) Jeremy Martens’ article is a masterclass in how the examination of a particular ‘case’ can open up significant questions about the entanglement of race, gender, sexuality and class in the management of settler national borders. Read more …
Six entries were submitted in consideration for this year’s Ann Curthoys prize, which is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher (within 5 years of PhD graduation) in any one or combination of the fields in which Ann has published. It is worth $750. The editors of History Australia gratefully acknowledge Read more …
The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the 2020 NAA/AHA Postgraduate Scholarships, which provide assistance with digitisation of material held by the National Archives. The judges noted the successful applicants had ‘exciting, diverse and challenging research projects,’ and we congratulate the four recipients: Yianni Cartledge for the project ‘Aegean Islander Migration to the United Kingdom, United States and Australia, Read more …
The Australian Historical Association expresses its dismay and fierce disapproval to the significant increase in costs for undertaking humanities undergraduate subjects announced today by the Minister for Education, Dan Tehan. This decision is severely short-sighted and reveals a lack of understanding of the vital importance of humanities training for the employees of tomorrow. It is unnecessarily punitive and displays Read more …
A new AHA ECR blog is now live! This week’s entry contains a Q&A with ECRs and AHA Executive Committee members Romain Fathi and Lyndon Megarrity on their ‘You Matter’ ECR survey and casualisation within the history profession and Australian Universities more broadly. Further information