The Australian Historical Association
The site for and about historians working in or on Australia.
In accordance with the Constitution of the Australian Historical Association, elections are held every two years for membership of the Association’s Executive Committee. The term of office for the incoming Executive will be from the date of the Annual General Meeting in 2020 to that of the Annual General Meeting in 2022. A thoughtful, hard 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 …
Congratulations to AHA members recognised in the Australia Day honours list for 2020. Joan Beaumont, Richard Broome, Rae Frances and Judith Smart received an AM and Clare Wright received an OAM. Further information
Congratulations to all those who received ARC Linkage Project Grants, including Diane Kirkby and Stuart Macintyre for the project ‘The Australian Council of Trade Unions in the Making of Modern Australia’. Further information.
Congratulations to all those who received ARC DECRAs, including Jess Melvin for the project ‘Islamist Militias, the Military and Indonesia’s Authoritarian Turn,’ and Kate Ariotti for the project ‘Between Death and Commemoration: An Australian History of the War Corpse’. Further information
Carol Thomas Fellowship: Sally Young for project ‘Sworn to No Masters’ Ross Steele AM Fellowship: David Hansen for the project ‘Pictures in the Collections of the State Library of NSW’ Dr AM Hertzberg AO Fellowship: Ben Huf for the project ‘Colonial Liquidity’ CH Currey Fellowship: Rebecca Jones for the project ‘Drought, Flood, Heat and Dust’ Nancy Keesing Fellowship AM: Sophie Robinson for the project ‘Lesbian Sydney in the 1990s’ Australian Religious Read more …
Congratulations to Lynette Russell for receiving an ARC 2019 Laureate Fellowship. This fellowship aims to examine one thousand years of dynamic encounters between Australia’s Indigenous peoples and voyagers from the sea. The project expects to use an interdisciplinary, multilingual team to generate new understandings by synthesising historical, archaeological, anthropological and linguistic sources from Australian and European collections. Expected outcomes Read more …
1-3 October, Loreto College Marryatville, Adelaide The HTAA Conference ‘History Matters’ features a number of AHA members as presenters. Further information.