Founder’s Prize
A $1,000 prize to be awarded annually for the best article published in the preceding volume year of the Association’s official journal, Social Science History. The selection is made by a vote of the Editorial Board, in a two-stage process. Nominations are solicited from the full membership of the board by June 30th of the year following a volume’s publication. Nominations include a brief explanation of what is particularly extraordinary of the nominated article. A sub-committee of the board consisting of 3 members, the Co-Editors and the Managing Editor, review the top nominated articles with the expectation that they will select a winner by early September. The winner will be notified by mid-September with the hope that they can plan to attend the meeting in November where they will receive a check and a plaque.
Past Winners
| Year | Author | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Steven Sprick Schuster, Matthew Jaremski and Elisabeth Ruth Perlman | An Empirical History of the US Postal Savings System. | ||
| 2019 | Kinga Makovi | The Signatures of Social Structure: Petitioning for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in Manchester. | ||
| 2018 | Lisa D. Cook, Trevon D. Logan and John M. Parman | Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching. | ||
| 2017 | Richard Sutch | The One Percent across Two Centuries: A Replication of Thomas Picketty’s Data on the Concentration of Wealth in the United States. | ||
| 2015 | Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley and Patricia Ahmed | The Racialization of Legal Categories in the First U.S. Census. | ||
| 2014 | Andrew Walder | Rebellion and Repression in China, 1966-1971. |
Announcements
SSHA 2024 Final Conference Program Released
The 2024 SSHA conference (in Toronto, Oct 31 - Nov 3) program has been released and is available here.
SSHA Town Hall, March 25
The SSHA officers invite SSHA members to attend a Zoom town hall on Monday March 25 from 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm EST to discuss and answer questions about the four Executive Committee motions passed on December 20, 2023, and February 8, 2024. The zoom link is here (Meeting ID: 895 1708 6578 | Password: 602250).
These motions concern our association journal, Social Science History, specifically editorial procedure guidelines, journal scope and the editor model. These motions have been posted on the SSHA website.
2024 Annual Conference Submissions Now Open
SSHA is now accepting paper and session submissions for the 2024 Annual Conference. Please visit our submission portal to submit a paper or session proposal by March 22, 2024.