Applications open for Ernest Scott Prize
The Ernest Scott Prize (for published authors of a distinguished historical work in Australia or New Zealand) is now open for applications. The due date is 31 January 2011. Please see the…
Biography Footnotes, no 7, 2010
The latest issue of the NCB's newsletter Biography Footnotes is now available on the web. Read about the NCB’s Directions for 2011 which include a new ADB internship for 4th Year History honours…
Revised closing date: NMA Student Prize 2011
The National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science through its National Committee for History and Philosophy of Science invite submissions for the 2011 National Museum of…
Graduation - 9 December
Congratulations to the following students who will be graduating in the December ceremony on 9 December: Elizabeth Ganter, Marie Kawaja, Ingereth Macfarlane, Nicholas Guoth (Mphil)
Dr Maria Nugent's Stunning Success in ARC Grants 2010
Dr Maria Nugent (research fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History within the School of History) has achieved the breathtaking success of winning a prestigious Australian Research…
ADB Administrator receives 25 year medal
Congratulations to Mrs Karen Ciuffetelli on receiving her 25 year service medal last week. Karen started work in the Typing Pool before moving to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Future fellowship awarded
Maria Nugent has received a future fellowship to undertake a four year project on: Remembering dispossession: interpreting Aboriginal historical narratives. Since the arrival of the British,…