The projects from this year’s 12 recipients cover a vast array of topics, and explore pressing areas of inquiry: from the tale of a cohort of women who defied the odds and forged remarkable careers in the domain of public-affairs production, to an account of the internal workings of the NSW Board for the Protection of Aborigines at the turn of the century, to the infamous case of the making and un-making of the East West Link.
Awards Committee member and publisher Professor Terri-ann White FAHA congratulated the recipients and remarked on the breadth and quality of the projects: “There were a number of compelling applications in this round” she said. “Some of them included opportunities to take scholarship further into the reaches of people who don’t work in higher education, demonstrating the broad value of the humanities across society. That mix of global specialist and general publishing outlets was a sign for the committee of robustness in the humanities, even during this difficult era we are living through.”
We congratulate the following recipients and are proud to support their projects:
Dr Kylie Andrews
Trailblazing women of Australian public broadcasting, 1945-1975
Anthem Press
Dr Mitchell Browne
Grammatical description of Warlmanpa: a Ngumpin-Yapa language spoken around Tennant Creek (Northern Territory)
ANU Press
Dr Honae Cuffe
The Genesis of a Policy: Defining and Defending Australia’s National Interest in the Asia-Pacific, 1921-57
ANU Press
Twitter: @HonaeHCuffe
Dr Richard Egan
Power and Dysfunction: The NSW Board for the Protection of Aborigines 1883-1940
ANU Press
Dr Luara Ferracioli
Liberal Self-Determination in a World of Migration
Oxford University Press
Dr Kristie Flannery
Fighting Pirates, Forging Empire: Anti-Piracy and Spanish Colonial Rule in the Pacific
University of Pennsylvania Press
Twitter @thehistoriann
Dr Eloise Florence
Traces of aerial bombing in Berlin: Entangled remembering
Bloomsbury Academic
Dr Mitchell Harrop
Grimoire for the Digital Humanities: The Forbidden Atlas
Melbourne University Press/ AHS
Twitter: @mharropesquire
Dr Simon Kennedy
Reforming the Law of Nature: The Secularisation of Political Thought, 1532-1689
Edinburgh University Press
Twitter: @spkenn1
Dr James Murphy
The Making & Un-Making of East-West Link
Melbourne University Press
Dr Andres Rodriguez
Meeting the Nation in the Field: Frontier Work and the Making of Modern China, 1919-1945
University of British Columbia Press
Twitter: @LaoAnguo
Dr Chris Urwin
Building and Remembering: An Archaeology of Place-Making in Orokolo Bay, Papua New Guinea
University of Hawai’i Press
Twitter: @c_urwin
