The Australian Historical Association
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The second round of the Jill Roe Early Career Researcher AHA Conference Scholarship Scheme is now open. The scheme will support 5 Early Career Research historians to attend and present at the AHA annual conference. The scholarship, valued at $1000 per applicant, provides financial assistance for ECR applicants with little or no institutional support. The Read more …
The Australian Historical Association in association with the Copyright Agency offers travel and writing bursaries linked to the AHA annual conference. The bursaries are intended to encourage and support emerging historians who would otherwise be unable to attend the conference. Applications close 13 March 2020. Further information.
The AHA is delighted to open applications for 2019’s 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 articles that will Read more …
Three Assistant or Associate Environment and Sustainability Professor Positions, 2020-2021, University of Buffalo The positions are for scholars with expertise in the economic, social, political, cultural, historical, psychological, and ecological aspects of environmental and sustainability issues. The Department is especially interested in scholars who study the macro structures that affect the sustainability of societies; the Read more …
2020 is a big year for AHA prizes, with the full suite of biennial prizes and annual prizes on offer. All are now open. For full terms and conditions for each prize, consult the AHA website. The Kay Daniels Award is a biennial prize recognising outstanding original research with a bearing on Australian convict history 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 …
André Brett, the early career researcher representative on the AHA executive, invites contributions for the AHA’s early career researcher blog. Any proposal from or of interest to ECRs is welcome. André is particularly interested in submissions on the following three themes: – historians at any career stage who would like to contribute to a proposed Read more …
2-6 September 2019, National Centre for Indigenous Studies, ANU The repatriation of Ancestral Remains is a highly significant Indigenous achievement and inter-cultural development of the past 40 years. Participants in this 5-day intensive course will join with Indigenous and non-Indigenous experts and learn on Country in order to learn the practice, history, meaning and significant Read more …
The Victorian Community History Awards are presented by the Public Record Office Victoria and the Royal Historical Society of Victoria. The Awards recognise excellence and originality in historical storytelling. Award categories are: the Collaborative Community History Award; the History Publication Award; the Local History- small publication award; the Cultural Diversity Award; the Multimedia History Award; Read more …
Funding Opportunity for Secondary School History Teachers The AHA/Honest History: AHA Conference Teacher Scholarship 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 supports Read more …