Australian History Awards - The Serle Award

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 (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.

• 2005 Winner: Bartolo Ziino for A distant grief: Australians, War Graves and the Great War (University of Melbourne, PhD 2003)

Commendation: Catherine Mary Gilchrist for Male Convict Sexuality in the Penal Colonies of Australia 1820-1850 (University of Sydney, PhD 2004)

• 2006 Winner: Jessie Mitchell for Flesh, Dreams and Spirit: Life on Aboriginal Mission Stations 1825-1850 A History of Cross-Cultural Connections (ANU PhD thesis, 2005)

• 2008: Marina Larsson for The Burdens of Sacrifice: War Disability in Australian Families, 1914-1939 (Latrobe University PhD 2006)

Highly Commended

• Olwen Valda Pryke for Australia House: Representing Australia in Great Britain 1901-1939 (University of Sydney PhD 2006)

  Robert Bollard for The Active Chorus: The Mass Strike of 1917 in Eastern Australia (Victoria University PhD 2007)

• 2010: Dr Simon Sleight for The Territories of Youth: Young People and Public Space in Melbourne c1870-1901 (Monash University PhD 2008)

Commendations

• Dr Malcolm Allbrook for Imperial Family: the Prinseps, Empire and Colonial Government in India and Australia (Griffith University PhD 2008)

  Dr Clare McLisky for "Settlers on a Mission" Faith, Power and Subjectivity in the Lives of Danial and Janet Matthews (University of Melbourne PhD 2008)