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History

'The Serle Award is given to the best postgraduate thesis in Australian history.

'The Award is a biennial prize to commemorate the contribution to Australian History of Dr Geoffrey Serle (1922–1998). Geoffrey Serle was Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne (1951–60), Senior Lecturer and Reader in History at Monash University (1961–63), and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (1975–88). The Award has been established through the generosity of Mrs Jessie Serle.' (Award summary)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2020

winner y separately published work icon Negotiating Entanglement : Reading Aboriginal- Colonial Exchanges in Early New South Wales, 1788 – 1835 Annemarie McLaren , Canberra : 2018 19752389 2018 single work thesis

The dissertation 'traced the development of the cross-cultural world of New South Wales to 1835 by exploring key cross-cultural actions, rituals and material exchanges'.

Source: Abstract.

Year: 2018

winner Anne Rees for  Travelling to Tomorrow: Australian Women in the United States

Year: 2016

winner Laura Rademaker for Language and the Mission: Talking and Translating on Groote Eylandt, 1943–1973

Year: 2014

winner Bill Garner for Born in a Tent – How Camping Makes Us Australian

Year: 2012

winner Bill Garner for Land of Camps: The Ephemeral Settlement of Australia
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