The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
Congratulations to Yves Rees for winning the 2020 Calibre Essay Prize for their essay ‘Reading the Mess Backwards,’ ‘a story of trans becoming that digs into the messiness of bodies, gender and identity.’ Further information
Congratulations to Mark Dunn for the publication of The Convict Valley (Allen & Unwin, 2020). The book examines the impact of the British invasion and use of the valley as a penal station between 1804 and 1821, the environmental impact of the convict coal mines and timber getting and then the opening of the valley to emigrant farmers in the 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
The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the AHA/Honest History Teacher Scholarship. The scheme supports a secondary school History teacher to attend the annual Australian Historical Association Conference to promote engagement between History teachers and the broader historical community. Funding for this scheme is made possible by a generous donation from Honest History which Read more …
The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Scheme. The scheme provides financial assistance to facilitate participation in the AHA annual conference and was made possible by a generous bequest from Professor Emerita Jill Roe (1940–2017), an historian who made a very significant contribution to the Read more …
The AHA would like to thank all who applied for the inaugural Patrick Wolfe Early Career Researcher Conference Bursary. The scheme, set up in honour of Dr Patrick Wolfe, assists an early career researcher participate in the AHA annual conference and attend the conference dinner. There was a competitive field and we are delighted to announce the successful joint recipients. We Read more …
Congratulations to Marian Sawer, Fiona Jenkins and Karen Downing for the publication of edited collection How Gender can Transform the Social Sciences: Innovation and Impact (Springer, 2020). This book turns a spotlight on gender innovation in the social sciences. Scholars across five disciplines– economics, history, philosophy, political science and sociology – demonstrate how paying attention to gender can sharpen the focus of Read more …
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
Congratulations to Liam Byrne for the publication of Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin: Their early political careers and the making of the modern Labor Party (Melbourne University Press, 2020). Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Read more …
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 …