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History

'The AIATSIS Stanner Award is presented biennially to the best academic manuscript written by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander author. 

'The Award is open to all Indigenous authors, scholars and academics, however submissions must not be under consideration by other publishers or simultaneously entered in to other awards, and no more than twenty per cent of the submission previously published. Please read the conditions of entry carefully before considering submitting.' (https://aiatsis.gov.au/news-and-events/events/special-events/stanner-award)

N.B. Only authors, works within AustLit's scope are included.

Notes

  • Awarded annually by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in honour of one of its founders, the late anthropologist Emeritus Professor W.E.H. (Bill) Stanner.

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2023

winner Janine Gertz for her PhD dissertation, 'Gugu Badhun Sovereignty, Self-Determination and Nationhood’.

Year: 2017

winner Josie Douglas for ‘Kin and Knowledge: the meaning and acquisition of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in the lives of young Aboriginal people in Central Australia.

Year: 2013

winner Bronwyn Carlson for The politics of identity: who counts as Aboriginal today? 

Year: 2011

winner Hannah McGlade for Our greatest challenge: Aboriginal  children  and human rights

Year: 2007

winner Stanner Award to Riley Book 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 16 January no. 417 2008; (p. 42)

Works About this Award

Award Promises to Spread Dr Josie’s Research 2017 single work column
— Appears in: Land Rights News , October vol. 7 no. 3 2017; (p. 5)

'THE CLC’s senior policy officer Dr Josie Douglas has won a prestigious national award for analysing how young people in Central Australia learn and practice Aboriginal ecological knowledge.'

(Source : Abstract)

Joint Winners of Stanner Award 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 15 March no. 371 2006; (p. 31)
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