The Australian Academy of the Humanities

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One of the aims of the Australian Academy of the Humanities is to advance knowledge of the Humanities by encouraging and supporting scholarship, and the pursuit of excellence, in the broad-ranging fields of the Humanities.

In accordance with this aim, the AAH includes in its activities the Publication Subsidy Scheme to provide modest financial support of up to AU$3,000 for the publication of scholarly works of high quality in the Humanities.

The scheme is designed to assist Humanities scholars based in Australia. Both independent scholars and those working within an institution are eligible for the scheme. The AAH gives priority to works that require a subsidy for their viability as a publishing venture, or for the inclusion of essential items such as illustrations, photographs or maps. Support may, in some cases, be given for meritorious publications with some prospect of small-scale royalty and profit returns. Works with clear commercial prospects, however, will not be supported by the AAH. The AAH normally supports publications that have already been accepted by a reputable and refereed academic publisher. In the case of in-house publications (of conference papers etc.), external assessment of the work will be required. Although the scheme is generally intended for conventional, hardcopy publications, the AAH will consider applications for subsidy support of online works. Costs of research assistance, editorial work, translations and the preparation of indexes are not subsidised under the scheme.

The Scheme was particularly popular in 2007, with over 40 applications. The Committee granted 17 awards, to a total of $40,000 (see below for 2007 winners).

Please note that this programme is now closed for 2008. We expect to offer another round of subsidies in 2009.

Recipient	Title
Dr Daniel Anlezark	The Solomon and Saturn Dialogues in MSS CCC 422 and 41: A Study and Critical Edition.
Dr Diane Austin-Broos	After the Invasion: Violence and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia.
Dr Clare Corbould	Becoming African Americans, 1919-1939.
Dr Matthew Fishburn	Burning Books
Dr Stephen Gregory	Frustrated Dialogue: Intellectuals and Leftwing Politics in Uruguay, 1958-2006.
Dr Michele Grossman	Entangled Subjects: Australian Cross-Cultures of Talk, Text and Modernity.
Dr Julie Kalman	Evolutions in Hatred: Antisemitism in Early-Nineteenth Century France.
Professor Richard Maltby	Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema.
Dr Jacob Ramsay	Mandarins and Martyrs: the Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early Nineteenth-Century Vietnam.
Dr Stuart Ripley	A Social History of New South Wales Professional Sculling 1876-1927.
Dr Geoff Robinson	When the Labor Party Dreams: Class, Politics and Policy in New South Wales 1930-32.
Dr Brigid Rooney	Australian literary activisms: writer intellectuals and the public life of nation.
Ms Roslyn Russell	Ever, Manning: Select correspondence of Manning Clark, 1938-1991.
Associate Professor Joanne Scott and Dr Ross Laurie	It’s Showtime: A history of the Brisbane Exhibition.
Dr Craig Stockings	The Heirs of ANZAC.
Professor Graham Tulloch	An Edition of Walter Scott’s The Siege of Malta and Bizarro.
Dr Jennifer Webb and Dr David Frankel	The Bronze Age Cemeteries at Deneia in Cyprus.

Please note that the general guidelines given below may be altered at any time. Please subscribe to the Grants Mailing List if you wish to be informed of any developments.

Selection
Applications are assessed by the AAH Awards Committee and rated according to academic merit and demonstrated need for a subsidy. The applicant should be able to prove that he or she has limited access to funds to complete publication of the work, or that without the subsidy the work would go either unpublished or be published in a diminished capacity.

The White Fund
The White Fund was established by a joint gift from the eminent Australian scientist, the late Sir Frederick White and his son, Professor Peter White, Reader in Archaeology at Sydney University. The fund was established to support publications of an archaeological nature. Proceeds from the White Fund may be awarded to works in archaeology under the Publication Subsidy Scheme. If you wish to apply under the terms of the White Fund, please contact the Academy as detailed below.

Application Procedure
Applicants must provide their original application, along with supporting documentation in hard copy, as well as an electronic version of both the application and the supporting documentation (preferably as one file). The electronic version should be sent as an e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word (link below) format. The hard copy should be double sided and fixed with a paper clip.

Applications must include all of the following:

A cover sheet, signed and dated by the applicant (available here in .DOC format);
An accurate and complete application form;
A synopsis of the project (3-5 pages);
An assessment of the work by a recognised scholar in the field who is neither a relation nor close associate of the applicant;
Correspondence from the publisher demonstrating support for the work, in the form of a letter to the Awards Committee from the publisher (on the publisher’s letterhead), stating the publisher’s support for the work and giving the reasons for requiring a subsidy and stating the terms of the subsidy;
And a publisher’s reader’s report.

All of the above must also be made available to the Secretariat in electronic form (scans of documents are permissible, in PDF format only), excluding the cover sheet of which only a hard copy is required.

Please note that the Awards Committee will not consider incomplete or late applications, and is under no obligation to contact applicants if their application is incomplete.

In some cases, the AAH Publications Committee may request a copy of the full manuscript of the work under consideration. To apply, download the application form in Microsoft Word (.DOC, 226KB) format. Please note that the MS Word version is designed to be filled out within Word or a compatible word processor and sent as an attachment by email.

All applicants are advised to make themselves familiar with the Rules of the award before applying.

Further Information
For further information on the Publication Subsidy Scheme, please contact Jorge Salavert by email or on 02 6125 8950.

Closing Date
The due date for applications is close of business, Monday 14 July 2008.

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