Australian Academy of the Humanities Awards and Grants

Nominations for the Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 2025 Grants and Awards Program are now open and will close on Friday 28 March 2025. Our prestigious awards and grants promote international engagement, embrace emerging fields of humanities research and scholarship and support early and mid-career researchers.

This year, the Academy will accept nominations for the:

Max Crawford Medal
Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the Humanities, the Max Crawford Medal recognises an early-career scholar in the humanities whose publications contribute towards an understanding of their discipline.

John Mulvaney Fellowship
Awarded to an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander early-career researcher or PhD student working in any area of the humanities, the John Mulvaney Fellowship provides $4,000 to support research or fieldwork in Australia or overseas. This award accepts self-nominations.

McCredie Musicological Award
Recognising outstanding contributions in musicology by an Australian early career scholar. It is one of Australia’s most prestigious awards for the study of musicology — from performance practice, music in the cultural context, through to the theory, analysis and composition.

Publication Subsidy Scheme
The Publication Subsidy Scheme supports early-career researchers with costs of up to $3,000 associated with the publication of scholarly works that advance knowledge of the humanities.

Humanities Travelling Fellowships
Awarded annually, the Humanities Travelling Fellowships supports early-career researchers with costs of up to $4,000 to undertake research overseas.

For further information, including application processes, see the AAH website:
https://humanities.org.au/grants-and-awards/

Call for Members: Parergon Journal Early Career Committee

Parergon, the journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (ANZAMEMS), seeks nominations for interested early career scholars within ANZAMEMS to participate as members of the 2025 Early Career Committee (ECC). The aim of this committee is to recognise and support early career researcher contributions to ANZAMEMS, and specifically, Parergon.

The ECC meets three times a year and offers an opportunity to provide advice to the Editorial team and gain a deeper understanding of the detailed intellectual and practical processes of production of a prestigious, peer-reviewed scholarly journal.

Additionally, participation in the ECC will provide valuable service experience for those interested in pursuing academic and publishing career pathways. Membership of the ECC is not a paid position.

Terms are for a calendar year, with a possible maximal renewal of an additional, immediate year.

Nominations are sought from late-stage doctoral students through to those five years post PhD or equivalent), who are current members of ANZAMEMS.

Applications should consist of a CV, and a covering email outlining disciplinary expertise to the Editors of Parergon, info@anzamems.org.

Doctoral students wishing to apply should also provide an email from their supervisor indicating support for their application.

Nominations close on Friday 7 March 2025. Successful candidates will be notified in late March.

Selection criteria:

  • Candidates are expected to be available to make 3 meetings a year by Zoom link.
  • No prior experience is necessary
  • The Editorial team will seek to achieve a broad disciplinary spread among the committee.

Parergon Early Career Committee
Terms of Reference
Version: 2 February 2024

  1. Purpose
    The Committee’s purposes are:
    a) to provide advice to the Editor and Reviews Editor on the content, production and promotion of Parergon.
    b) to give the opportunity for early career researchers to gain experience in the intellectual and practical processes of production of a high-quality international peer- reviewed journal.
    c) to support the aims of the association with regard to the publication of its journal.
  2. Membership
    The members of the Committee are:
    2.1 The Parergon Editor
    2.2 The Parergon Reviews Editor
    2.3 The ANZAMEMS Communications Officer
    2.4 Up to 12 persons appointed by the Editor and Reviews Editor for one year.
    Persons appointed in category 2.3:
    a) must be members of ANZAMEMS; and
    b) must be early career researchers (within five years of achieving a doctoral qualification) or currently enrolled doctoral students (with support of a doctoral supervisor)
    c) are eligible for reappointment for a further term of one year.
  3. Meetings
    3.1 The Parergon Editor is the Chair of the committee.
    3.2 The Committee normally meets three times a year.
    3.2 The Committee reports

ANZAMEMS Publication Prizes and Subvention

ANZAMEMS is pleased to announce that applications for a number of its publication prizes and subventions are now open!

New for 2025 are:

2025 Chris Jones Book Prize: closing date for applications 1 August 2025
The Chris Jones Book Prize is awarded to the best first book published in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval, early modern, or medievalism studies, published between 1 January 2024 and 31 July 2025. 

2025 ANZAMEMS subvention for the publication of a first book: closing date for applications 1 November 2025 
The subvention is intended to support the publication costs of a first book by an ANZAMEMS member. It is a fund for authorial costs relating especially to images or copyright permissions that a publisher may not be covering. Applications for subventions should only be for books that have already been approved for publication.


Applications are also open for the following publication prizes:

2025 Anne M. Scott Parergon Journal Prize: closing date for applications 1 August 2025
The Anne M. Scott Parergon Journal Prize is awarded to an emerging scholar for the best article- length scholarly work accepted to be published in Parergon within the previous two years (2023–2024).

2026 Constant Mews Early Career Publication Prize: closing date for applications 1 August 2025
The Constant Mews Early Career Publication Prize is awarded to an Early Career Researcher (ECR) for the best article-length scholarly work in Constant’s broad areas of scholarly interest: the medieval history of religions, intellectual history, and textual editing and translation, published in the period 1 September 2023–1 May 2025.

2025 George Yule Prize: closing date for applications 24 November 2025
The George Yule Prize is awarded to the best paper given at the next ANZAMEMS conference by a postgraduate student. NB: The application process for the George Yule Prize has been revised for 2025.

2025 Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize: closing date for applications 1 August 2025
The Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize is awarded to a postgraduate student for the best article-length scholarly work in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval and early modern studies, published in the period 1 September 2023–1 May 2025.

2025 Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize: closing date for applications 1 August 2025
The Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize is awarded to an Early Career Researcher (ECR) for the best article-length scholarly work in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval and early modern studies, published in the period 1 September 2023–1 May 2025.

Further details for all prizes and subventions can be found on the ANZAMEMS website: https://www.anzamems.org/?page_id=8

Please direct all queries regarding the publication prizes and the subvention to: info@anzamems.org.

PhD Scholarship in Medieval History – Flinders University

Flinders University is currently advertising a HDR scholarship opportunity as a part of Dr Matthew Firth’s Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship project ‘Contesting Conquests: Pre-Modern Attempts to Come to Terms with the Past’.

This scholarship is for a candidate wishing to pursue a PhD in history, with a relevant undergraduate or masters degree in history or a cognate discipline.

The larger project looks at how societies experience and remember the trauma of conquest and colonisation, taking an especial interest in England’s early medieval histories of invasion (pre-1066) and how these were received and transmitted in the historiography of the later Middle Ages and early modern period.

The scholarship opportunity is to conduct a PhD project that either:

  • examines the distinctive contributions to English historiography of twelfth-century historians. This HDR project would consider:
    • what social contexts and authorial interests encouraged the unprecedented volume of history writing that was produced in this period
    • what role these histories had in shaping common perceptions and subsequent accounts of England’s pre-Conquest past

OR

  • examines the links between narrative genres, such as hagiography, and traditions of history writing in the medieval or early modern period. This HDR project would consider:
    • the extent to which the chosen narrative genre can be (or was) considered a form of history writing
    • how these texts shaped narratives of England’s pre-Conquest past and can so be located within wider networks of medieval history writing 

The recipient of this scholarship will be able to design the scope of their project within these frameworks.

For further details, see the advertised opportunity.

Member News: AFCEMS Best Book in Medieval Art 2024

Congratulations to Pippa Salonius and her co-editor, Mike Bintley, whose collection, Trees as Symbol and Metaphor in the Middle Ages: Comparative Contexts, has been awarded the 2024 Best Book in Medieval Art prize by the Association of Friends of the Center for Early Medieval Studies. The judges concluded:

This profoundly researched, well written, and clearly composed book has been deemed outstanding for its stimulating contribution to a nuanced and profound understanding of the nexus between nature and human creativity as expressed through various media in the visual arts and literature as well as theology and cosmology. Although mainly focusing on the European continent, it also comprises analyses of Maori and Islamic cultures for comparison and thereby embraces a ‘global’ approach to its common arboreal focus.

The book is now available in harcover and ebook formats through Boydell & Brewer.

CFP: Cerae Volume 12 – Dreams, Visions, and Utopias

Ceræ invites article submissions on the theme of Dreams, Visions, and Utopias for volume 12 of the journal.

The journal is interested in receiving submissions related to both the idealistic and the critical, considering the variety of ways that medieval and early modern constructions of dreams, visions, and utopias have expanded and/or delimited the future.

There is no geographic or disciplinary limitation for submissions, which can consider any aspect of the medieval or early modern world or its reception. Non-themed submissions will also be considered.

The deadline for themed submissions is 30 April 2025.

See below flyer for further details.

Ceræ Vol 12 CFPDownload

CFP: Early Modern Global Separation Conference

The research project Moved Apart is pleased to announce that its second conference
Early Modern Global Separation will take place at Lund University on 20-22 August 2025.

This conference seeks proposals that contribute to further our knowledge of how separation was communicated in different parts of the world (Africa, America, Asia, Europe) in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is 3 March 2025 and you will be notified of the results by the end of March 2025.

Note that there may be opportunities for financial support for early career scholars. Please flag this in your proposal.

See the below flyer for further details.

Moved Apart conference poster (2)Download

The Great Viking Survey

The University of Oslo has recently launched the Great Viking Survey, a wide-ranging study to explore how people across the world perceive and engage with the vikings as history and heritage, and to map the many ways in which contemporary media and academia shape these views. This online survey invites anyone, anywhere, over 18, to share their thoughts on the iconic viking warrior figure, as well as the enduring legacy and memory of the vikings in the modern world. In doing so, researchers will be able to shine an unprecedented light on the means and mechanisms that allow images and myths of the vikings to be shaped and spread in the public sphere.

The survey is part of the Making a Warrior-project, a pan-Nordic network of scholars examining the concept of viking ‘warriorhood’ and its representations past and present. By determining how ideas and images of vikings are shared among different communities and demographics, the project is able inform future outreach and cultural heritage initiatives that respond to public interest, while fostering a nuanced appreciation of the Viking Age.

The Great Viking Survey is now live at vikingsurvey.org, and remains open until mid-May 2025.

The associated press release from the University of Oslo can be found here.