Jury Announced for the 28th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize
For Immediate Release: January 3, 2018 (Toronto and Washington): Patricia Rubin, Chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize and Board Chair of The Lionel Gelber Foundation, and Randall Hansen, Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, are pleased to announce the jurors for the 2018 Prize.
Janice Stein, Jury Chair (Toronto, Canada) is joined by distinguished jurors Ramachandra Guha (Bengaluru, India), Desmond King (Oxford, England), David M. Malone (Tokyo, Japan), and Jeannette Money (California, USA).
“Created in memory of the Canadian scholar, diplomat and author Lionel Gelber, we are gratified that the Prize attracts such distinguished jurors, year after year,” said Ms Rubin, niece of the late Lionel Gelber.
Key Dates: The Jury will announce its shortlist of five books on Tuesday, February 13. Podcast interviews with each of the shortlisted authors in conversation with Professor Robert Steiner will be presented in partnership with Focus Asset Management. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, March 13 and invited to speak at a free public event at the Munk School of Global Affairs on April 17, 2018.
About the Prize: The Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world’s best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues, was founded in 1989 by Canadian diplomat Lionel Gelber. A cash prize of $15,000 is awarded to the winner. The award is presented annually by The Lionel Gelber Foundation, in partnership with Foreign Policy magazine and the Munk School of Global Affairs.
About the 2018 Lionel Gelber Prize Jury:
Janice Gross Stein, Jury Chair (Toronto, Canada) is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was the Massey Lecturer in 2001 and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate. She has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from four universities and is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario. She is a frequent contributor to CBC and TVO and has just launched a new podcast called Disrupting the Global Order.
Ramachandra Guha (Bengaluru, India) is a historian and biographer who has taught at Yale and Stanford. His books include a pioneering environmental history, The Unquiet Woods, and an award-winning social history of cricket, A Corner of a Foreign Field. India after Gandhi was chosen as a book of the year by the Economist, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out, and Outlook, and as a book of the decade in the Times of India, the Times of London, and The Hindu.
His most recent book is Gandhi Before India, which was chosen as a notable book of the year by the New York Times. His awards include the Leopold-Hidy Prize of the American Society of Environmental History, the Daily Telegraph/Cricket Society prize, the Malcolm Adideshiah Award for excellence in social science research, the Ramnath Goenka Prize for excellence in journalism, the Sahitya Akademi Award, and the R. K. Narayan Prize. In 2009, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the Republic of India’s third highest civilian honour. In 2008, and again in 2013, Prospect magazine nominated Guha as one of the world’s most influential intellectuals. In 2014, he was awarded a honorary doctorate in the humanities by Yale University. In 2015, he was awarded the Fukuoka Prize for contributions to Asian studies.
Desmond King (Oxford, England) Professor Desmond King, DLitt FBA, specializes in the study of the American state in US executive politics, race and politics in American political development, comparative welfare politics and labour market policy, democratization and immigration policy. Before coming to Nuffield in 2002, he was a Fellow and Professor of Politics at St John's College, Oxford, of which he is now an Emeritus Fellow, and a Lecturer in Government at the London School of Economics. He also worked at the University of Edinburgh and has held visiting positions at Sciences Po, Cornell and Göteborgs Universitet. He held a Nuffield Foundation Social Science Research Fellowship in 1997-98, a British Academy Research Readership in 2000-2002, and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship 2005- 08. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2003, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA) in 2014 and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) in 2015.
David M. Malone (Tokyo, Japan) is a Canadian author, diplomat, and expert on international affairs. Currently, he is the United Nations Under-Secretary General, Rector of the United Nations University and has previously served as president of the International Peace Institute and the International Development Reach Centre. He is a former Canadian Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council and held several other diplomatic appointments for Canada, including Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations and High Commissioner to India (accredited also as non-resident Ambassador to Nepal and Bhutan).
Jeannette Money (California, USA) is an associate professor of political science at the University of California at Davis. Her research interests include comparative politics and international relations, and she is currently working on several publications regarding immigration, international migration, and U.S. foreign policy. Her latest book, co- authored with Sarah Lockhart, called The Structure of International Cooperation on Migration, is forthcoming in 2018. Her research on nationality legislation includes the publication of a global compendium of nationality legislation (citizenship policy) by the International Organization for Migration and the third leg of her research agenda focuses on migrant rights. Professor Money received her BA in international relations from San Francisco State University, followed by her MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management and her PhD in political science from UCLA.