ASWA Prizes
Each year at its Annual Dinner, ASWA awards individuals, consultants and students with prizes to recognise achievements and excellence in anthropology. The principal prizes awarded are the Berndt Memorial Prizes.
Other prizes are awarded by Professional Members of ASWA as contributions from these professional consultancies to recognise outstanding work in the field of anthropology over the past year.
ASWA extends the opportunity for ASWA members to make financial contributions to the awarding of prizes, either as a contribution to the Berndt Memorial Prizes or for prizes of their own nomination.
Professional and other Members who wish to make contributions can do so through the Register Now link below.
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Berndt Memorial Prize in Anthropology
The Berndt Memorial Prize in Anthropology of $250, provided annually by the Anthropological Society of Western Australia (ASWA) in honour of Foundation Professor Ronald M. Berndt and Dr Catherine H. Berndt.
University of Western Australia
At the University of Western Australia the Berndt Memorial Prize is awarded by the appropriate Board of Examiners to the student in any faculty who, in the opinion of the Head of the School of Social and Cultural Studies following consultation with the academic staff in anthropology, has shown the greatest merit throughout the year's work in a Level 2 or 3 anthropology unit.
From 1991 to 1993 the prize was named The Anthropological Society of Western Australia Prize and then from 1994 is was renamed The Berndt Memorial Prize.
Murdoch University
At Murdoch University the Berndt Memorial Prize in Anthropology is awarded for the best academic performance in the unit (AST212/412) Anthropology and It's Others or (AST250/450) Society, Culture and Ecology in South-East Asia or (AST258/458) Women in Asian Societies.
Annual winners are published on the Murdoch University website.
Previous Winners
Academic Year  | Winner | Prize Name | University |
| 1991 | Adrian Tulloch | Anthropological Society Prize of WA | UWA |
| 1992 | Laura Gladstone | Anthropological Society Prize of WA | UWA |
| 1993 | Beverley McNamara | Anthropological Society Prize of WA | UWA |
| 1994 | Gregory Nairn | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 1995 | Raelene Smith | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 1996 | Margaret Robinson | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 1997 | Charmaine Cameron | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 1998 | Fiona Michel | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 1999 | Michaela Evans | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2000 | Frances George | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2001 | Anula Lorek | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2002 | Raymond Chow | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2003 | Lydia Lange | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2004 | Chantelle Belladonna | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2005 | Carmen Cummings | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2006 | Natalie Garcia de Heer | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2007 | Ruth Crow | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2008 | Sarah Metcalf | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2009 | Mystyc Metrik | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2010 | Makoto Takao | Berndt Memorial Prize | UWA |
| 2012 | Tim Hilton | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2011 | Katherine Zscharnagk | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2010 | Sarah Watson | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2009 | Ross Tunney | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2008 | James Ritchie | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2007 | David Cook | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2006 | Claudine Lhost | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2005 | Catherine Campbell | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2004 | Mahdi Farah | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2003 | Emma Wilson | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2002 | Tim Davey | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2001 | Tani Garde | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 2000 | Aroha Greenwood | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1999 | Jeanne Damasena-Adam | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1998 | Valencia Chew | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1997 | Kurt Stenross | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1996 | Francesca Knowles & Sally Lawry (joint winners) | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1995 | Penelope Claringbull | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1994 | Juanita Doorey | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1993 | Rachel Joan Drewry | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1992 | Rebecca Charlson Hicks | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1991 | Wendy Elizabeth Grace | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1990 | Stephen Mark Dobbs | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1989 | Linda Dorothy Delaney | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1988 | T Hutchins | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1987 | A Medcalf | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1986 | B C Campbell | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1985 | K J Hendy | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1984 | J Williams | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1983 | K Kato | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1982 | R M Howlett | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1981 | S T Ma & S S Holden (Joint winners) | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1980 | Ernest Lang | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1979 | David Roberts | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1978 | Patrick Sullivan & Peter Lander (Joint winners) | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |
| 1977 | Rosemary Brockman | Berndt Memorial Prize | Murdoch |