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12/3/2018 American Historical Association Announces 2018 Prize Winners | Perspectives on History | AHA Menu Home > Publications & Directories > Perspectives on History > Issues > October 2018 > Perspectives Daily > American Historical Association Announces 2018 Prize Winners PERSPECTIVES DAILY AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES 2018 PRIZE WINNERS AHA Sta | Oct 10, 2018 The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2018 prizes, to be awarded at the 133rd annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois, on January 3–6, 2019. The ceremony will be held on Thursday, January 3, in the Palmer House Hilton’s State Ballroom at 7:00 p.m., immediately following the meeting’s opening reception. The AHA oers annual prizes honoring exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Since 1896, the Association has conferred over a thousand awards. This year’s nalists were selected from a eld of over 1,500 entries by nearly 150 dedicated prize committee members. The names, publications, and projects of those who received these awards are a catalog of the best work produced in the historical discipline. Please join us at the ceremony in January to honor this year’s recipients. Awards for Publications The Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for an author’s rst book in European history from ancient times to 1815 Hussein Fancy (Univ. of Michigan) for The Mercenary Mediterranean: Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2016) The George Louis Beer Prize in European international history since 1895 Corey Ross (Univ. of Birmingham) for Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World (Oxford Univ. Press, 2017) The Jerry Bentley Prize in world history https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/october-2018/american-historical-association-announces-2018-prize-winners 1/7 12/3/2018 American Historical Association Announces 2018 Prize Winners | Perspectives on History | AHA Erika Rappaport (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) for A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton Univ. Press, 2017) The Albert J. Beveridge Award on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present Camilla Townsend (Rutgers Univ.) for Annals of Native America: How the Nahuas of Colonial Mexico Kept Their History Alive (Oxford Univ. Press, 2016) The Paul Birdsall Prize for a major book on European military and strategic history since 1870 Tarak Barkawi (London School of Economics) for Soldiers of Empire: Indian and British Armies in World War II (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017) The James Henry Breasted Prize in any eld of history prior to CE 1000 Jeremy Hartnett (Wabash Coll.) for The Roman Street: Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2017) The Albert B. Corey Prize for the best book dealing with the history of Canadian- American relations or the history of both countries Ann M. Little (Colorado State Univ.) for The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright (Yale Univ. Press, 2016) The Raymond J. Cunningham Prize for the best article published in a history department journal written by an undergraduate student Heath Rojas (Stanford Univ., BA 2018), faculty advisor: Keith M. Baker (Stanford Univ.), for “A Model of Revolutionary Regicide: The Role of Seventeenth-Century English History in the Trial of King Louis XVI,” Herodotus (Spring 2018) The John K. Fairbank Prize for East Asian history since 1800 Thomas S. Mullaney (Stanford Univ.) for The Chinese Typewriter: A History (MIT Press, 2017) The Morris D. Forkosch Prize in the eld of British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485 Paul Ocobock (Univ. of Notre Dame) for An Uncertain Age: The Politics of Manhood in Kenya (Ohio Univ. Press, 2017) https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/october-2018/american-historical-association-announces-2018-prize-winners 2/7 12/3/2018 American Historical Association Announces 2018 Prize Winners | Perspectives on History | AHA The Leo Gershoy Award in the elds of 17th- and 18th-century western European history James Delbourgo (Rutgers Univ.) for Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum (Belknap Press, 2017) The William and Edwyna Gilbert Award for the best article in a journal, magazine, or other serial on teaching history Leah Shopkow (Indiana Univ.) for “How Many Sources Do I Need,” The History Teacher 50, no. 2 (February 2017) The Friedrich Katz Prize in Latin American and Caribbean history Lisa Sousa (Occidental Coll.) for The Woman Who Turned into a Jaguar, and Other Narratives of Native Women in Archives of Colonial Mexico (Stanford Univ. Press, 2017) The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for women’s history and/or feminist theory Tera W. Hunter (Princeton Univ.) for Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Belknap Press, 2017) The Martin A. Klein Prize in African history Kenda Mutongi (Williams Coll.) for Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017) The Littleton-Griswold Prize in US law and society, broadly dened Tera W. Hunter (Princeton Univ.) for Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Belknap Press, 2017) The J. Russell Major Prize for French history Peter Sahlins (Univ. of California, Berkeley) for 1668: The Year of the Animal in France (Zone Books, 2017) The Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian history or Italian-American relations Axel Körner (Univ. Coll. London) for America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763–1865 (Princeton Univ. Press, 2017) The George L. Mosse Prize in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500 https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/october-2018/american-historical-association-announces-2018-prize-winners 3/7 12/3/2018 American Historical Association Announces 2018 Prize Winners | Perspectives on History | AHA Yuri Slezkine (Univ. of California, Berkeley) for The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Princeton Univ. Press, 2017) The John E. O’Connor Film Award for outstanding interpretations of history through lm Documentary: Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart, Tracy Heather Strain, director; Tracy Heather Strain and Randall MacLowry, producers (Lorraine Hansberry Documentary Project, LLC, 2017) The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the history of journalism Julia Guarneri (Univ. of Cambridge) for Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2017) The Premio del Rey for a distinguished book in English in the eld of early Spanish history Michelle Armstrong-Partida (Univ. of Texas at El Paso) for Deant Priests: Domestic Unions, Violence, and Clerical Masculinity in Fourteenth-Century Catalunya (Cornell Univ. Press, 2017) The James A. Rawley Prize for the integration of Atlantic worlds before the 20th century Padraic X. Scanlan (London School of Economics) for Freedom’s Debtors: British Antislavery in Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution (Yale Univ. Press, 2017) The John F. Richards Prize for South Asian history Faiz Ahmed (Brown Univ.) for Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecra between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard Univ. Press, 2017) The James Harvey Robinson Prize for the teaching aid that has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history in any eld for public or educational purposes Bethany Jay (Salem State Univ.) and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly (Boston Coll.), editors, for Understanding and Teaching American Slavery (Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2016) The Dorothy Rosenberg Prize in the history of the Jewish diaspora Andrew Sloin (Baruch Coll.) for The Jewish Revolution in Belorussia: Economy, Race, and Bolshevik Power (Indiana Univ. Press, 2017) https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/october-2018/american-historical-association-announces-2018-prize-winners 4/7 12/3/2018 American Historical Association Announces 2018 Prize Winners | Perspectives on History | AHA The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History to a freely available new media project Adam Clulow (Monash Univ.) and Tom Chandler (Monash Univ.) for Virtual Angkor The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history Monique A. Bedasse (Washington Univ. in St. Louis) for Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2017) The Eugene Asher Distinguished Teaching Award for outstanding postsecondary history teaching Catherine Denial (Knox Coll.) The Beveridge Family Teaching Prize for distinguished K–12 history teaching California Department of Education and the California History-Social Science Project (Univ. of California, Davis) Equity Awards for individuals and institutions that have achieved excellence in recruiting and retaining underrepresented racial and ethnic groups into the historic profession Tiany Packer (Florida A&M Univ.) The Herbert Feis Award for distinguished contributions to public history Joan Neuberger (Univ. of Texas at Austin) The Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award for teachers of history who taught, guided, and inspired their students in a way that changed their lives Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra (Univ. of Texas at Austin) The