The Australian Historical Association
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Congratulations to Nicholas Ferns for the publication of Australia in the Age of International Development, 1945-1975: Australian Colonial and Foreign Aid Policy in Papua New Guinea and Southeast Asia (Palgrave Macmillan). In addition to examining how Australia’s academic and political understandings of international development influenced economic assistance to PNG and the Colombo Plan, this book 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 The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually for the best unpublished article-length work of historical research in any Read more …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Six entries were submitted in consideration for this year’s Ann Curthoys prize, which is awarded for the best unpublished article-length work by an Early Career Researcher (within 5 years of PhD graduation) in any one or combination of the fields in which Ann has published.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 …
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 …