Stanner Award. Aboriginal Studies. Winners.

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The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (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.

Past Winners

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