Presidents Book Award
Submissions for the Presidents Book Award are NOW OPEN.
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 the previous year that are published within eight years of the author’s Ph.D. are eligible for consideration.
Submission Deadline: Submissions with a postmark of June 30, 2023 (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
hacke010@umn.eduFiona Greenland
710 Belmont Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22902
fg5t@virginia.eduHo-fung Hung
Dept of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N Charles street
Baltimore, MD 21218
hofung@jhu.eduJeffrey Beemer (SSHA, Executive Director)
President’s Book Award
Social Science History Association
176 Savery Rd
Searsport, ME 04974
jbeemer@ssha.org
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 Call for Papers
50th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
Toronto, ON, Canada, October 31 - November 3, 2024
Submissions for the 2024 Conference will open soon.