The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
The upcoming issue of History Australia features a forum responding to the theme of ‘urgent histories.’ The forum consists of three papers with a response by Paul Kramer: ‘Here we stand: temporal thinking in urgent times’by Tamson Pietsch and Frances Flanagan; ‘Doing environmental history in urgent times’by Katie Holmes, Andrea Gaynor and Ruth Morgan; and ‘Training historians in urgent times’ by Yves Rees Read more …
A new AHA ECR blog is now live! This week’s entry by Tamara Cooper writes about pursuing a teaching career, emphasising that we need to think in different and healthier ways about the employment options and career goals of higher degree research students. Further information
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
A new AHA ECR blog is now live! This week’s entry contains advice relevant to a different career stage: supervising your first research student. Further information
The Research Centre for Deep History (School of History, Australian National University) has launched its website. The Centre will expand the study of history beyond the modern and ancient and into deep time, thinking differently about the practice of history and how it is seen and experienced. The Centre has also launched a YouTube channel Read more …
A new AHA ECR blog is now live! This entry contains advice from a number of historians on academic job interviews. Further information
A new AHA ECR Emerging Historians blog is now live! In this Q&A Dr Tom Rogers reflects on settler colonial history, his formative experiences, and the neoliberal con of ‘flexibility.’ Further information.
This blog post is cross-posted with the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand’s blog. It features ECR Henry Reese, recipient of two awards associated with the AHA’s recent conference at USQ: an AHA-CAL travel bursary supported his attendance, and he won the EHSANZ Postgraduate and ECR Development Prize for the paper he delivered. He describes his research and the challenges and Read more …
A new AHA ECR Emerging Historians blog is now live! Dr Yves Rees addresses the important topic for scholarly communities worldwide: how to turn stated commitments to inclusivity into real, meaningful inclusion of trans and gender diverse people. Further information
The third part of the AHA’s ECR Blog series, ‘A Conversation about Casualisation,’ is now available! In response to a recent controversial article about casualisation on The Conversation, the third part of this series is a compilation of short responses by early career academics in History who are, or recently were, employed casually in Australian universities. Further Read more …