Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award
Submissions for the Allan Sharlin Memorial Book Award are TBA.
Books published in 2023 are eligible for consideration. Submissions with a postmark of May 24, 2024 will be accepted. Late entries will not be considered. Authors or publishers wishing to nominate a book should mail a book to each member of the award committee. Self-nominations are accepted.
A $1,000 prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book in social science history to honor the memory of Allan Sharlin. Allan exemplified the finest traditions of social science history. His training and scholarship were broadly interdisciplinary and he used both quantitative and more traditional methodologies.
Submission Deadline: Submissions with a postmark of May 24, 2024 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
Iddo Tavory, Chair 487 3rd Street #3 Brooklyn, NY, 11215 iddo.tavory@nyu.edu
Daniel Menchik, Chair School of Sociology
Social Sciences, Room 400 1145 E. South Campus Drive University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 mench@arizona.eduAyse Zarakol Emmanuel College Park Terrace 10, Room 4 Cambridge CB2 3AP UK az319@cam.ac.uk
Daniel Scott Smith, 1428 Grove Street #1 San Francisco, CA 94117 danielscottsmith@stanford.edu
Past Winners
| Year | Author | Institution | Title | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Martha Wilfahrt | UC Berkeley | Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics. Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. | |||
| 2022 | Elisabeth Anderson | New York University Abu Dhabi | Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. (Honorable Mention) | |||
| 2021 | Steven Pfaff and Michael Hechter | University of Washington & Arizona State University | Genesis of Rebellion: Governance, Grievance, and Mutiny in the Age of Sail. | |||
| 2021 | Isaac Ariail Reed | University of Virginia | Power in Modernity Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies. | |||
| 2021 | Diana S. Kim | Georgetown University | Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia. (Honorable Mention) | |||
| 2020 | Andrew G. Walder | Stanford | Agents of Disorder. Inside China’s Cultural Revolution. | |||
| 2020 | Amy C. Offner | University of Pennsylvania | Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas. (Honorable Mention) | |||
| 2020 | Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal | Caltech | Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France. (Honorable Mention) | |||
| 2019 | Alan Greer | McGill | Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. | |||
| 2019 | Devin Caughey | MIT | The Unsolid South: Mass Politics and National Representation in a One-Party Enclave. (Honorable Mention) | |||
| 2018 | Leah Platt Boustan | Princeton | Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets. | |||
| 2018 | Angel Adams Parham | Loyola University New Orleans | American Routes: Racial Palimpsests and the Transformation of Race. | |||
| 2018 | Joel Mokyr | Northwestern | A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy. | |||
| 2017 | Jaeeun Kim | University of Michigan | Contested Embrace: Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea. | |||
| 2016 | Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode | Harvard University | Arresting Contagion: Science, Policy, and Conflicts over Animal Disease Control. | |||
| 2015 | Emily Erikson | Yale University | Between Monopoly and Free Trade. | |||
| 2015 | Mara Loveman | Berkeley | National Colors: Racial Classification and the State in Latin America. | |||
| 2014 | Fabian Drixler | Yale University | Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950. | |||
| 2013 | Monica Prasad | Northwestern University | The Land of Too Much. | |||
| 2012 | John Tutino | Georgetown | Making a New World. | |||
| 2011 | Daniel Carpenter | Harvard | Reputation and Power. | |||
| 2010 | Randolph Roth | Ohio State | American Homicide. | |||
| 2009 | Sigrid Schmalzer | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | The People’s Peking Man. | |||
| 2008 | George Steinmetz | University of Michigan | The Devil’s Handwriting. | |||
| 2007 | Nancy McLane | Duke University | Freedom is Not Enough. | |||
| 2006 | Madeleine Zelin | Columbia | The Merchants of Zigong. | |||
| 2005 | Peter H. Lindert | University of California-Davis | Growing Public. | |||
| 2004 | Frank Tobias Higbie | UCLA | Indispensable Outcasts. | |||
| 2003 | Dirk Hoerder | Arizona State | Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium. | |||
| 2002 | Deborah Cohen | Northwestern University | The War Come Home. | |||
| 2001 | Ann Farnsworth-Alvear | University of Pennsylvania | Dulcinea in the Factory: Myths, Morals, and Women in Colombia’s Industrial Experiment. | |||
| 2000 | Steve Hochstadt | Illinois College | Mobility and Modernity. | |||
| 2000 | James Z. Lee and Wang Feng | Hong Kong University and U. of Michigan | One Quarter of Humanity. | |||
| 1999 | Jose C. Moya | UCLA | Cousins and Strangers. | |||
| 1998 | Rogers Smith | University of Pennsylvania | Civic Ideals. | |||
| 1997 | Philip Hoffman | California Institute of Tech. | Growth in a Traditional Society. | |||
| 1996 | Eric A. Johnson | University of Wyoming | Urbanization and Crime. | |||
| 1995 | Karen Barkey | Columbia | Bandits and Bureaucrats. | |||
| 1994 | Susan Pederson | Columbia | Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State. | |||
| 1993 | Theda Skocpol | Harvard | Proctecting Soldiers and Mothers. | |||
| 1992 | Ramon A. Gutierrez | University of Wisconson-Madison | When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away. | |||
| 1991 | Claudia Goldin | Harvard | Understanding the Gender Gap. | |||
| 1990 | Allen Steinberg | University of Iowa | The Transformation of Criminal Justice. | |||
| 1989 | Kenneth Winkle | University of Wisconson-Madison | The Politics of Community | |||
| 1988 | Steven Ruggles | University of Minnesota | Prolonged Connections. | |||
| 1987 | Terrence J. McDonald | LSU | The Parameters of Urban Fiscal Policy. | |||
| 1986 | Allan Greer | McGill | Peasant, Lord and Merchant. | |||
| 1985 | Philip McMichael | Cornell University | Settlers and the Agrarian Question. |
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