Recent recipient of the Endeavour Research Fellowship, History PhD student Anne Rees has been awarded the 2012 Ken Inglis Post Graduate Prize. The prize is awarded by the journal Australian Historical Studies to the best paper presented by a postgraduate student to the Australian Historical Association conference. Anne's paper ' "Australians who come over here are apt to consider themselves quite large people": The Body and Australian Identity in Interwar London' was judged by Associate Professor Fiona Paisley and Associate Professor Mark McKenna to be the best of 16 entries submitted.

The judges commented: "Anne Rees' paper explores the notion of Australian physical distinctiveness, examining the body as a site for the construction and performance of Australian identities in interwar London. While historical work on the body as a site of Australian identity is certainly not new, Rees provides a genuinely fresh and original perspective. She demonstrates how Australian bodies could connote the physical superiority of Australians, national sentiment and at the same time, carry suggestions of vulgarity, stupidity, and sometimes racial otherness. Eager to be assimilated into the imperial metropole, many Australians sought to 'disavow' the Australianness of their bodies in order to gain acceptance in London. Extremely well-researched and lucidly written, this essay provides a penetrating analysis of the various representations of Australian bodies in London between the wars. Significantly, Rees places Australian bodies in the broader context of the British Empire, revealing that they were 'assigned the same childlike or adolescent mix of vitality and unruliness evident in European depictions of non-white peoples'. Rees has succeeded in making an original contribution to an already large body of scholarship".