Presidents Book Award
Submissions for the Presidents Book Award are OPEN NOW.
A $1000 prize is awarded annually for a meritorious first work by an early-career scholar. Entrants are judged on scholarly significance, interdisciplinary reach, and methodological innovativeness within monographs analyzing past structures and events and change over time. Books with a copyright date of 2023 that are published within eight years of the author’s Ph.D. are eligible for consideration.
Submission Deadline: Submissions with a postmark of July 15 (or earlier) will be accepted. Late entries will not be considered.
Authors or publishers wishing to nominate a book should mail print copies to each member of the award committee. Electronic (PDF, linked, emailed) copies will not be considered.
Award Committee
J. David Hacker (Chair)
4840 Vincent Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55410
Martin Dribe
Department of Economic History
Box 7080
220 07 Lund, Sweden
Joshua MacFadyen
SDU Main Building
University Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island, Canada C1A 4P3
Nicholas Wilson
Department of Sociology
Stony Brook University
N-439 Social and Behavioral Sciences
Stony Brook, NY 11777
Nicholas.wilson@stonybrook.edu
Past Winners
| Year | Author | Institution | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | James Poskett | University of Warwick | Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920 | ||
| 2019 | Seth Archer | Utah State University | Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawai’i, 1778–1855 | ||
| 2018 | Keri Leigh Merritt | Independent Scholar | Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South | ||
| 2018 | Taisu Zhang | Yale | The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England | ||
| 2017 | William Rankin | Yale | After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century | ||
| 2016 | Jonathan Wyrtzen | Yale | Making Morocco: Colonial Intervention and the Politics of Identity | ||
| 2015 | Aaron Panofsky | University of Chicago | Misbehaving Science: Controversy and the Development of Behavior Genetics | ||
| 2014 | Vanessa Ogle | University of Pennsylvania | Contesting Time: The Global Struggle for Uniformity and Its Unintended Consequences, 1870s-1950s | ||
| 2013 | Yiching Wu | University of Toronto | The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis | ||
| 2012 | Lisa Stampniktzky | Harvard | Disciplining Terror-How Experts Invented Terrorism | ||
| 2011 | Elizabeth Popp Berman | Berkeley | Creating the Market University | ||
| 2010 | Ho-fung Hung | Johns Hopkins | Protests with Chinese Characteristics | ||
| 2009 | Greta Krippner | Michigan | Capitalizing on Crisis | ||
| 2008 | Anthony Chen | Northwestern | The Fifth Freedom | ||
| 2007 | Brodwyn Fischer | University of Chicago | For our Poverty of Rights | ||
| 2007 | Issac Martin | Berkeley | In Defense of Privilege | ||
| 2006 | Sarah Igo | Vanderbilt | The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens and the Making of a Mass Public | ||
| 2005 | Joseph Gerteis | Minnesota | Class and the Color Line | ||
| 2004 | Steven Pfaff | Washington | Fight or Flight? Exit Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany | ||
| 2003 | Geoff Cunfer | University of Saskatchewan | On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment | ||
| 2002 | Robert D. Johnson | Yale | The Radical Middle Class | ||
| 2001 | Stephen M. Striffler | University of Arkansas | In the Shadow of State and Capital | ||
| 2000 | Mark S. Weiner | Yale | Americans Without Law | ||
| 1999 | Daniel Lord Smail | Fordham | Imaginary Cartographies: Possession and Identity in Late Medieval Marseille | ||
| 1998 | Robert Freeland | Stanford | The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation | ||
| 1997 | Robert Lieberman | Columbia | Shifting the Color Line | ||
| 1996 | Thomas Sugrue | University of Pennsylvania | The Origins of the Urban Crisis | ||
| 1995 | Leslie J. Reagan | University of Illinois | When Abortion Was a Crime | ||
| 1994 | Mary E. Odem | Emory | Delinquent Daughters | ||
| 1993 | Mauro F. Guillen | MIT | Models of Management | ||
| 1992 | Stewart Tolnay | Albany | Festival of Violence | ||
| 1991 | no award given | ||||
| 1990 | Richard Maddox | Augustana College | El Castillo | ||
| 1989 | no award given | ||||
| 1988 | Gary A. Abraham | St. Bonaventure | Max Weber and the Jewish Question |
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.
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