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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 ...
AHA 2021 UNSW Conference Timing Due to ongoing issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the organising committee of the 2021 AHA Annual Conference have pushed the conference back to 29 November to 2 December 2021. This revised timing represents the best chance for this conference to be primarily face-to-face, subject to the pandemic. More information 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 ...
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 is pleased to open applications for the AHA-Copyright Agency ECR Mentorship Scheme. This award supports Early Career Researcher historians to develop their professional skills. Specifically, it will link Early Career Researchers with senior historians who will mentor them in the development of new and innovative works of historical scholarship, in the form of Read more …
Responses to our ECR survey indicated that ECRs are looking to develop their mentoring skills to, amongst other things, start preparing for future supervision responsibilities, and to forge stronger links with the HDR community. With that in mind, the ECR representatives, Chelsea Barnett, Joel Barnes and Anna Temby, have been working with the HDR representative, Joshua Black, Read more …
A special resolution to change the following AHA membership category definitions was passed at the 2020 AHA AGM: 1. A Concession member will henceforth be defined as a person who is in a fixed term position (1 year’s duration or under) OR retired. The membership fee for this category will be fixed at $100 per 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 …
AHA Newsletter 10 December 2020 Contents AHA News | Congratulations | Announcements | Opportunities | Call for Papers | Reminders AHA NEWS Many members did not receive the AHA’s 3 December 2020 newsletter as it was labelled as spam by some email servers. The AHA would like to apologise and is working to find a Read more …
The Allan Martin Award is a research fellowship intended to assist early-career historians further their research in Australian history. It is available to all early career historians (within five years of the award of their PhD degree), whether academic, professional, or public historians working in museums, war memorials and other institutions. Funding of up to Read more …
Due to ongoing issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, the organising committee of the 2021 AHA Annual Conference have pushed the conference back to 29 November to 2 December 2021. This revised timing represents the best chance for this conference to be primarily face-to-face, subject to the pandemic. More information (including a CFP) will follow 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 …
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 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 …