STANNER AWARD
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AIATSIS established the Stanner Award in 1985 in recognition of the significant contribution of the late Emer. Professor W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner to the establishment and development of the Institute.
The Stanner Award comprises a certificate and a prize of $1,000 to the author of the successful publication.
One award may be given each year for the best published contribution to Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Studies that is considered by Council to be a significant work of scholarship in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Studies and which reflects the dynamic nature of Professor Stanner’s life and work. |
The late W.E.H. Stanner |
Eligibility
Only substantial published written works are eligible for the Stanner Award. Papers, articles, readers, short monographs, guides, catalogues, videos and edited works are not eligible.
Identification of books is initially undertaken by the AIATSIS Library, which compiles a list of all books meeting Council’s criteria published in the designated one-year period. Council reserves the right not to make an award.
Contributions are assessed in terms of:
- their scholarly content
- the importance of their contribution to advancement of knowledge of the subject
- their ability to promote and contribute to greater awareness and understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and identities
- their ability to contribute to understanding and acceptance of the intellectual traditions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Stanner Award 2008
The award for 2008 will be announced later this yearPast Awardees
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2007 |
Quentin Beresford, Rob Riley: an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice |
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2006 |
Allan Marett, Songs, Dreamings and Ghosts: the Wangga of North Australia |
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2005 |
Roslyn Poignant, Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle |
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2004 |
Steve Kinnane, Shadow Lines |
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2004 |
Ian Keen, Aboriginal Economy and Society: Australia at the threshold of colonisation |
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2003 |
Ann Curthoys, Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers |
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2002 |
Heather McDonald, Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town |
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2001 |
Anna Haebich, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800 – 2000 |
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1999 |
R.M.W. Dixon. & Grace Koch, Dyirbal Song Poetry: the oral literature of an Australian rainforest people |
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1999 |
Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission (Ronald Wilson), Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families |
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1996 |
Ian Keen, Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion: Yolngu of north-east Arnhem Land |
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1996 |
Andrew Sayers, Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century |
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1996 |
Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita |
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1994 |
Ronald M. Berndt and Catherine H. Berndt, with John Stanton, A World that was: The Yaraldi of the Murray River and the Lakes, South Australia |
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1994 |
Deborah Bird Rose, Dingo makes us human: life and land in an Aboriginal Australian culture |
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1992 |
Mudrooroo Narogin, Writing from the Fringe: a study of modern Aboriginal literature |
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1992 |
Howard Morphy, Ancestral Connections, Art and an Aboriginal System of Knowledge |
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1990 |
Robert A. Hall, The Black Diggers: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders in the Second World War |
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1990 |
Adam Kendon, Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: cultural, semiotic and communication perspectives |
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1988 |
Fred Myers, Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: sentiment, place and politics among Western Desert Aborigines |
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1986 |
Howard Morphy, Journey to the Crocodile’s Nest |
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1986 |
Bill Rosser, Dreamtime Nightmares: biographies of Aborigines under the Queensland Aborigines Act |