Winner of the inaugural Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize, and two highly commended awardees, announced
AAPS is thrilled to announce the winner of the inaugural Tracey Banivanua Mar PhD Prize. Named after the late Pacific historian, and colleague and friend to many within the AAPS community, the prize recognises the most outstanding PhD thesis by an AAPS student member working in the field of Pacific Studies. This year, out of a very strong field of nominations, the judges awarded the prize to Darumbal and South Sea Islander woman, Dr Melinda Mann, and her thesis “Speaking up and speaking back to high school and post-school transition experiences: An Indigenised narratology exploring education for the life success of young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living on Darumbal Country”.
Two Highly Commended awards were also awarded to Dr Léuli Eshraghi and Dr Lucy Davies for their theses on (respectively) Indigenous curatorial practice, and Papuan and New Guinean Indigenous mobility.
Read more about our awardees here