Established by Sir Keith Murdoch in New York City in 1948, the American Australian Association is the leading privately funded nonprofit organization dedicated to deepening and strengthening cooperation and understanding between the institutions and people of the United States and Australia.
Welcome to the
American Australian Association
Programs
Business & Innovation
The dynamic economic bond between Australia and the United States is at the core of the relationship between the two nations.
Graduate Education
The AAA Graduate Education Fund provides scholarship awards of up to US $40,000 to support graduate-level study (Masters, Ph.D. or Post-Doctoral Research) for Americans and Australians to study in each other's countries respectively.
Veterans
The AAA Veterans' Fund provides scholarship awards of up to US $50,000 to support honorably discharged post-9/11 military veterans, from America and Australia, to pursue undergraduate and graduate-level study in each other's countries respectively.
Arts
The AAA Arts Fund provides scholarships and grants to support American and Australian emerging or early-career artists to pursue artistic development in each other’s countries respectively.
CONNECT, GROW, LEARN, INSPIRE
Privately funded scholarship program between the US and Australia
800+
Graduate Education, Veteran and Art Alumni
1000+
Corporate Sponsors, Partners and Members
Over US $10.5 million of Awarded Scholarships to date
Thank you for supporting our programs!
Events
Year of Wonders Book Talk with Australian Author Geraldine Brooks
Summer Book Club Event
2020 Benefit Gala
Honoring Kathy Warden, Chairman, CEO & President, Northrop Grumman Corporation and Peter Farrell AM, Founder & Chairman, ResMed
Community Learning Race & Discrimination
Presented by Australian Women in New York
Spotlight On:
Caroline Garcia
2018 AAA-AFNGA AusArt Scholar (Arts Fund)
Caroline was supported by the AusArt Scholarship in 2018 to complete her Master of Fine Arts at Parsons, The New School in New York. She works across live performance and video through a hybridized aesthetic of cross-cultural dance, ritual practice, new media, and the sampling of popular culture and colonial imagery.
Spotlight On:
Tui Nolan
2019 AAA-Aurora Indigenous Education Scholar (Graduate Education Fund)
Methodological Statistician, Tui Nolan, is a Gudjal man from Sydney, Australia, with degrees from both the University of Technology Sydney and The University of Sydney. In February 2020, Tui will begin his postdoctoral research Cornell University in the Department of Statistical Science under the supervision of Professor David Rupert, supported by the AAA-Aurora Indigenous Education Scholarship.
Spotlight On:
Q & A with Business Council Member Tania Yuki
Founder & CEO Shareablee
Business Council member, Tania Yuki, founded Shareablee in February 2013. It now monitors more than 1M global companies and 9M+ influencers across social platforms using 800+ metrics. We asked Tania about her experience as an Australian CEO in New York.
Spotlight On:
Mi-kaisha Masella
2019 AAA-Nomad Two Worlds Indigenous Arts Scholar (Arts Fund)
Mi-kaisha Masella is a proud Darumbal Murri, freshwater woman and award-winning singer/songwriter and musician. In September 2019, Mi-kaisha will be supported as a AAA – Nomad Two Worlds Indigenous Arts Scholar to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University (NYU).
Spotlight On:
Suleiman Alhadidi
2018 AAA-Chevron Scholar (Graduate Education Fund)
Suleiman is an architect, research scientist, and artist. He is a researcher at the Material Processes and Systems Group (MaP+S), Harvard University, School of Design. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales. His research aims to investigate Real-time built environment by using cybernetic machines and robotics. He founded O(n!) Architecture in 2017; an architecture design solution practice to design and build more efficient, intelligent, and sustainable buildings and cities.
