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The Stanner Award
Stanner Award 2011: Winner announced
On Tuesday 5 July, AIATSIS Chair, Professor Mick Dodson presented Dr Hannah McGlade, human rights lawyer and social justice activist, with the 2011 Stanner Award for her manuscript, Aboriginal child sexual assault and the criminal justice system. He echoed the views of the judges in saying that 'this is a timely manuscript which has the potential to provide a valuable Indigenous contribution to national debates'.
The judges also specially commended the entry by Lawrence Bamblett (AIATSIS Indigenous Research Fellow), titled Sport and cultural continuity on Erambie Mission, saying "His lively and engaged narrative...will help readers understand the place of male sports figures in contemporary Aboriginal society".
In total ten manuscripts were submitted and Aboriginal Studies Press is now reviewing all the entries, with a view to publishing.
The prize
- an inscribed glass statuette
- publication of the manuscript by Aboriginal Studies Press
- $5000 prize money
- mentoring and editorial support (up to 50 hours) to bring the manuscript to a publishable standard
- out-of-pocket expenses.
About the Stanner Award
The Award is open to all Indigenous authors, scholars and academics, however submissions must not have been published previously, or be under consideration by other publishers, or entered in to other awards.
For the purposes of this award, an Indigenous Australian means:
- a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent; and
- who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander; and
- is accepted as such by the community in which s/he lives or has lived.
Authors’ claims to Indigeneity are to be supported by supplying the name and contact details of two authorised referees.
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) staff and visiting researchers who meet the above criteria may enter the award. AIATSIS Council and Research Advisory Committee members may not enter the award.
The Conditions of Entry and Entry Form contain the information required to enter. Those entering the award will need to read and abide by the Conditions.
A set of FAQs provides extra information.
Submissions that don’t meet the conditions will be deemed ineligible.
Emer. Professor WEH Stanner
Previous Stanner awards
Between 2009 - 2010, changes were made to the timing and criteria for the Award and the prize was not presented
2008 |
Professor Paul Memmott, Gunyah, Goondie & Wurley: the Aboriginal Architecture of Australia |
2007 |
Quentin Beresford, Rob Riley: an Aboriginal Leader's Quest for Justice |
2006 |
Allan Marett, Songs, Dreamings and Ghosts: the Wangga of North Australia |
2005 |
Roslyn Poignant, Professional Savages: Captive Lives and Western Spectacle |
2004 |
Steve Kinnane, Shadow Lines |
2004 |
Ian Keen, Aboriginal Economy and Society: Australia at the threshold of colonisation |
2003 |
Ann Curthoys, Freedom Ride: A Freedom Rider Remembers |
2002 |
Heather McDonald, Blood, Bones and Spirit: Aboriginal Christianity in an East Kimberley Town |
2001 |
Anna Haebich, Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800 – 2000 |
1999 |
R.M.W. Dixon. & Grace Koch, Dyirbal Song Poetry: the oral literature of an Australian rainforest people |
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 |
1996 |
Ian Keen, Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion: Yolngu of north-east Arnhem Land |
1996 |
Andrew Sayers, Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century |
1996 |
Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita |
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 |
1994 |
Deborah Bird Rose, Dingo makes us human: life and land in an Aboriginal Australian culture |
1992 |
Mudrooroo Narogin, Writing from the Fringe: a study of modern Aboriginal literature |
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 |
1990 |
Adam Kendon, Sign Languages of Aboriginal Australia: cultural, semiotic and communication perspectives |
1988 |
Fred Myers, Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: sentiment, place and politics among Western Desert Aborigines |
1986 |
Howard Morphy, Journey to the Crocodile’s Nest |
1986 |
Bill Rosser, Dreamtime Nightmares: biographies of Aborigines under the Queensland Aborigines Act |