ProfessorMark McKenna

Awards and Honours

• Return to Uluru,Carlton: Black Inc.(2021) - shortlisted for the Ernest Scott Prize in Australian History 2022.

• An Eye for Eternity, The Life of Manning Clark, MUP 2011. Winner of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prize for Non Fiction; the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction (2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Award); the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction (2011 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards); the 2011 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for Non-Fictionand the 2011 South Australian Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction. An Eye for Eternity was also shortlisted for the 2012 National Biography Award, the 2012 NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize, the 2012 Western Australia Premier’s Award for Non Fiction, the 2012 Ernest Scott Prize for Australian History, the 2011 Copyright Agency Limited Award for Literature and the 2011 Walkley Book Award

• Appointed to the Keith Cameron Chair of Australian Studies at University College, Dublin, 2011
• Shared first prize in the H.V. Evatt Foundation Manning Clark Essay Prize, (Topic: Australian Republicanism) 1997.
• Co-winner of W.K. Hancock Prize for Australian History [for The Captive Republic] awarded by Australian Historical Studies Association July 1998
• Author of a new Constitutional Preamble chosen by the Constitutional Centenary Foundation to be circulated to Federal Parliament, February 1999
• QEII Fellowship, ARC 1999.
• Winner of Australian Cultural Studies prize 2002, (awarded by the Centre for Australian Culture, UNSW and the Australian National Capital Authority) for Looking for Blackfellas’ Point.
• Winner of NSW Premier’s Award (Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction) for Looking for Blackfellas’ Point, May 2003.
• Winner of NSW Premier’s Award (Book of the Year) for Looking for Blackfellas’ Point, May 2003.
• Looking for Blackfellas’ Point was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s History Prize 2003 and the Australian Literary Studies Association’s Colin Roderick Prize for Best Australian Book 2003 (Fiction or Non-Fiction)
• This Country: a Reconciled Republic? shortlisted for the Gleebooks Prize for cultural criticism in the 2005 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards