Ernest Scott Prize

The pre-eminent prize for "original published research that contributes to the history of Australia or New Zealand or to the history of colonisation in these countries." Awarded since 1943, the prize is named in honor of

Ernest Scott Sir Ernest Scott (21 June 1867 – 6 December 1939) was an Australian historian and professor of history at the University of Melbourne from 1913 to 1936. Early life Scott was born in Northampton, England, on 21 June 1867, the son of Hannah ...

, regarded as the first historian of Australian historiography, and was endowed by his wife, Emily Scott. The winner is announced each year at the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Lecture, awarded a prize of $13,000 and invited to give the Ernest Scott Lecture at the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

. Applicants must be publishers and the work must have been published in the preceding two calendar years. Winners must "live in Australia or New Zealand or the respective external territories f either country" There are two judges. The prize is typically awarded to one historical writer, although it has been shared between two people and two books nine times. Seven people have won the Ernest Scott Prize twice, including one person who won the prize for two books in the same year (1959). One historian, Alan Atkinson, won the prize three times. The prize has been won by 35 men and 13 women historians, and three non-white historians. Numerous winners of the prize are part of the Scott lineage, a teacher-undergraduate student chain of historians stretching back to Scott himself. Among the future prize winners Scott taught were

Manning Clark Charles Manning Hope Clark, (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) was an Australian historian and the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume ''A History of Australia'', published between 1962 and 1987. He has been descri ...

W. K. Hancock Sir William Keith Hancock, (26 June 189813 August 1988) was a prominent Australian historian. Early life and education He was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of Archdeacon William Hancock. At the age of nine, he won the Royal Human ...

and

Geoffrey Serle Alan Geoffrey Serle (10 March 1922 – 27 April 1998), known as Geoff, was an Australian historian, who is best known for his books on the colony of Victoria; ''The Golden Age'' (1963) and ''The Rush to be Rich'' (1971) and his biographies of J ...

; Clark taught

Weston Bate Weston Arthur Bate (24 September 1924 – 31 October 2017) was an Australian historian. Bate served in the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War. He studied at the University of Melbourne under Manning Clark, Max Crawford, Ka ...

Ken Inglis Kenneth Stanley Inglis, (7 October 1929 – 1 December 2017) was an Australian historian. Early life and education Inglis was born in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe, on 7 October 1929, the son of Stan and Rene Inglis. He was educated at Tyler ...

Geoffrey Blainey Geoffrey Norman Blainey (born 11 March 1930) is an Australian historian, academic, best selling author and commentator. He is noted for having written authoritative texts on the economic and social history of Australia, including '' The Tyranny ...

and Graeme Davison; Blainey taught

Janet McCalman Janet Susan McCalman, (born 5 December 1948) is an Australian social historian, population researcher and author at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. McCalman won the Ernest Scott Prize in 1984 and 20 ...

and

Stuart Macintyre Stuart Forbes Macintyre (21 April 1947 – 22 November 2021) was an Australian historian, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne from 1999 to 2008. He was voted one of Australia's most influential historians. Early lif ...

The Allan Martin Award

This biennial award has been named for A. W. Martin (1926–2002) and is administered jointly by the

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and the Australian Historical Association. The award is to encourage "early career historians" for work relating to Australian History. Submissions for this award are those prepared for publication and can be in any form, e.g. a monograph, a series of academic articles, an exhibition or documentary film, or some mix of these. Seven women and six men have won the prize, with one non-white winner.

Blackwell AHA Prize

The publishers, Blackwell Publishing Asia, have sponsored a prize for the best postgraduate paper at a Regional Conference. The AHA information states that the "prize will be judged on two criteria: 1) oral presentation of the paper 2) written version of the conference paper. The written version of the conference paper (not a longer version) is to be submitted at the start of the conference. The winner of the prize will be announced at the close of the conference." * 2007 Winners :: Melissa Bellanta (

University of Sydney The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's si ...

) for ''Raiders of the Lost Civilisation'', or, ''Adventure-Romances of the Australian Desert, 1890-1907'', and :: Nell Musgrove (

) for ''Private Homes, Public Scrutiny: Surveillance of 'the family' in postwar Melbourne''

WK Hancock Prize

The WK Hancock Prize is run by Australian Historical Association (AHA) with the Department of Modern History, Macquarie University. It was instituted in 1987 in honour of Sir Keith Hancock and his life achievements. The award is for the first book of history by an Australian scholar and for research using original sources. It is awarded biennially for a first book published in the preceding two years with the award presented at the AHA's National Biennial Conference. * 2004 Winners :: Mary Anne Jebb for ''Blood, Sweat and Welfare: a History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers'' (UWA Press, 2002)citation
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Warwick Anderson Warwick Hugh Anderson (born 10 December 1958), medical doctor, poet, and historian, is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney, where he was p ...

for ''The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health and Racial Destiny in Australia'' (Melbourne University Press, 2002)
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for ''The Australian Frontier Wars: 1788-1838'' (

University of New South Wales Press The University of New South Wales Press Ltd. is an Australian academic book publishing company launched in 1962 and based in Randwick, a suburb of Sydney. The ACNC not-for-profit entity has three divisions: NewSouth Publishing (the publishing arm ...

) :: Brigid Hains for ''The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn, and the Myth of the Frontier'' (

Melbourne University Press Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne. History MUP was founded in 1922 as Melbourne University Press to sell text books and stationery to students, and soon began publishing books itself. ...

) * 2006 Winner Tony Roberts for ''Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900'' (UQP, 2005) ** Highly Commended ::

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for ''Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet'' (Allen & Unwin, 2005) :: Sue Taffe for ''Black and White Together, FCAATSI 1958-1972'' (UQP, 2005) * 2008 Winner: :: Robert Kenny for ''The Lamb enters the Dreaming: Nathaniel Pepper and the Ruptured World'' (Scribe Publications, 2007) **2008 Highly Commended :: Tracey Banivanua-Mar for ''Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade'' (University of Hawaii Press, 2007) * 2010 Winner: :: Dr Natasha Campo for ''From Superwomen to Domestic Goddesses: the rise and fall of Feminism'' Peter Lang, 2009 **2010 Commendation :: Dr Clare Corbould for ''Becoming African Americans" Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919-1939'' Harvard University Press, 2009 *2012 Joint Winners :: Frances M Clarke for ''War Stories: Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North'' :: Ian Coller for ''Arab France: Islam and the Making of Modern Europe, 1798-1831'' **2012 Commendation :: Michael L. Ondaatje for ''Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America'' * 2014 Winner: :: Janet Butler for ''Kitty’s War: The Remarkable Wartime Experiences of Kit McNaughton'' (

University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house. Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...

, 2013) * 2016 Winner: ::Adam Clulow for ''The Company and The Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan'' (Columbia University Press, 2014) **2016 Highly Commended :: Ruth Morgan for ''Running Out? Water in Western Australia'' (UWA Publishing, 2015) * 2018 Winner: :: Miranda Johnson for ''The Land Is Our History: Indigeneity, Law, and the Settler State'' (Oxford University Press) * 2020 Winner: ::Laura Rademaker for ''Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission'' (University of Hawai’i Press)

The Jill Roe Prize

The Jill Roe Prize is awarded annually to a postgraduate student for the best unpublished article of historical research. It was inaugurated in 2014 in honour of the late

Jill Roe Jillian Isobel Roe, (10 November 1940 – 12 January 2017) was an Australian historian and academic, who wrote a definitive biography of the Australian writer Miles Franklin. Early life and education Roe was born in 1940, at Tumby Bay, South A ...

. * 2014: Chris Holdridge for ''The Pageantry of the Anti-Convict Cause: Colonial Loyalism and Settler Celebrations in Tasmania and Cape Colony'' (published in ''History Australia 12'', No. 1, April 2015). * 2015: No prize awarded. * 2016: James H. Dunk for ''The Liability of Colonial Madness: Jonathan Burke Hugo in Port Dalrymple, Sydney and Calcutta, 1812.'' * 2017: James Findlay for ''Cinematic Landscapes, Dark Tourism and the Ghosts of Port Arthur.'' * 2019: No prize awarded. * 2020: Karen Twigg, ''Dust, dryness and departure: constructions of masculinity and femininity during the WWII drought''. * 2021: Jessica Urwin, ''"The old colonial power can stand proxy": The Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests in Australia and the politics of the 1980s'' * 2022: Catherine Gay, ''All the perils of the ocean: Girls' emotions on voyages to Australia, 1851–1884.''

The John Barrett Award for Australian Studies

The John Barrett Award for Australian Studies is for the best written article published in the ''Journal of Australian Studies'', in the categories: the best article by a scholar (open) and the best article by a scholar (post-graduate). John Barrett Award: Open Category * 2014: Nathan Garvey for ‘“Folkalising” Convicts: a “Botany Bay” Ballad and its Cultural Contexts’, JAS, Vol.38 No.1 (March) (2014): 32–51 * 2014 Highly Commended: Mark McKenna for ''Tokenism or belated recognition? Welcome to Country and the Emergence of Indigenous Protocol in Australia, 1991–2004'' JAS, Vol.38 No.4 (December) (2014): 476–89 * 2013:

Lyndall Ryan Lyndall Ryan, (born 1943) is an Australian academic and historian. She has held positions in Australian Studies and Women's Studies at Griffith University and Flinders University and was Foundation Professor of Australian Studies and Head of Sc ...

. 'The Black Line in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), 1830', ''JAS'', 37:1 (2013): 3-18. * 2012: Zoe Anderson, 'Borders, babies and ‘good refugees’: Australian representations of ‘illegal’ immigration, 1979', ''JAS'', 36:4 (2012): 499-514. John Barrett Award: Postgraduate Category * 2013: Not awarded. * 2012: Jessica Neath, 'Empty lands: contemporary art approaches to photographing historical trauma in Tasmania', ''JAS'' 36:3 (2012): 309-325.

The Kay Daniels Award

Inaugurated in 2004, this award is named for Kay Daniels (1941–2001), historian and public servant, and recognises her interest in colonial and heritage history. The biennial award will be administered by The Australian Historical Association. * 2004: Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stuart (eds) for ''Chain Letters: Narrating Convict Lives'' (

) * 2006: Trudy Mae Cowley for ''A Drift of 'Derwent Ducks: Lives of the 200 Female Irish Convicts Transported on the Australasia from Dublin to Hobart in 1849'' (Research Tasmania, Hobart, 2005)Review
/small> * 2008: Kirsty Reid for ''Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia'' * 2010: Hamish Maxwell-Stuart for ''Closing Hell's Gates: the Death of a Convict Station'' (Allen & Unwin 2008) * 2014: Kristyn Harman for ''Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles'',(UNSW Press 2012) * 2016: Sue Castrique for ''Under the Colony’s Eye: Gentlemen and Convicts on Cockatoo Island 1839–1869'' (Anchor Books Australia, 2014) * 2018: Joan Kavanagh and Dianne Snowden for ''Van Diemen’s Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania'' (The History Press Ltd). * 2020:

Hilary Carey Hilary Mary Carey, ( Beange; born 1957) is an Australian historian whose research focused for many years on the religious history of Australia. She has been professor of imperial and religious history at the University of Bristol since 2014, whe ...

for ''Empire of Hell. Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788–1875'' (Cambridge University Press, 2019) * 2022: Bill Bell for ''Crusoe’s Books: Readers in the Empire of Print 1800-1918'' (Oxford University Press)

The Serle Award

The Serle Award was first presented in 2002. The award was established through the generosity of Mrs Jessie Serle for the historian

(1922–1998). The Serle Award is for the best thesis by an "early career researcher" and will be payable on receipt of publisher’s proofs, which must be within twelve months of notification of the award. The biennial award will be administered by The Australian Historical Association.

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