This biennial award has been named for A. W. Martin and is administered jointly by the Australian National University and the Australian Historical Association. The award is to encourage "early career historians" for work relating to Australian History. Submissions for this award are to be work that is being 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.
2004: Maria Nugent for Botany Bay: Where Histories Meet
2006: No award made
2008: Dr Fred Cahir for Black gold: aboriginal peoples and gold in Victoria 1850-1870
2008: Highly Commended: Dr Keir Reeves for Wild onions: a history of Chinese gold-seekers in the Pearl River Delta region of China and the Central Victorian goldfields.
2014: Amanda Kaladelfos for Immigration, Violence and Australia Postwar Politics.
2016: Ruth Morgan for Australindia: Australia, India and the Ecologies of Empire, 1788–1901
2016: Highly Commended: Kirstie Close-Barry for Intersecting Indigenous Histories: Aboriginal and Pacific Islander Connections in Australia’s Northern Territory
2017: Benjamin Mountford for A Global History of Australian Gold
2017: Highly Commended: Vannessa Hearman for Dealing with the Timorese “Boat People”: Australian and Indonesian Government Responses to the 1995 Arrival in Darwin of the Timorese Asylum Seekers Aboard the Tasi Diak
2019: André Brett, Scars in the Country: An Enviro-Economic History of Railways in Australasia, 1850–1914''
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 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
WK Hancock Prize
The WK Hancock Prize is run by Australian Historical Association 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
* Highly Commended
2006 WinnerTony Roberts for Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900
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.
2014: Chris Holdridge for The Pageantry of the Anti-Convict Cause: Colonial Loyalism and Settler Celebrations in Tasmania and Cape Colony.
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.
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 and the best article by a scholar. John Barrett Award: Open Category
2014: Nathan Garvey for ‘“Folkalising” Convicts: a “Botany Bay” Ballad and its Cultural Contexts’, JAS, Vol.38 No.1 : 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 : 476–89
2004: Lucy Frost and Hamish Maxwell-Stuart 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
2008: Kirsty Reid for Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia
2010: Dr Hamish Maxwell-Stuart for Closing Hell's Gates: the Death of a Convict Station
2014: Kristyn Harman for Aboriginal Convicts: Australian, Khoisan and Maori Exiles,
2016: Sue Castrique for Under the Colony’s Eye: Gentlemen and Convicts on Cockatoo Island 1839–1869
2018: Joan Kavanagh and Dianne Snowden for Van Diemen’s Women: A History of Transportation to Tasmania.
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 Geoffrey Serle. 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.
2005 Winner: Bartolo Ziino for A distant grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War
2006 Winner: Jessie Mitchell for Flesh, Dreams and Spirit: Life on Aboriginal Mission Stations 1825-1850 A History of Cross-Cultural Connections
2008: Marina Larsson for The Burdens of Sacrifice: War Disability in Australian Families, 1914-1939
2010: Dr Simon Sleight for The Territories of Youth: Young People and Public Space in Melbourne c1870-1901
2014: Carolyn Holbrook for The Great War in the Australian Imagination Since 1915.
2016: Laura Rademaker for Language and the Mission: Talking and Translating on Groote Eylandt, 1943–1973.
