2020 Awards, Prizes, And Honors Announced
The following is a list of recipients of the various awards, prizes, and honors that have been conferred in 2020.
2020 AWARDS FOR SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL DISTINCTION
AWARDS FOR SCHOLARLY DISTINCTION
David Levering Lewis, New York University
Leslie P. Peirce, New York University
David Warren Sabean, University of California, Los Angeles
HONORARY FOREIGN MEMBER
Hartmut Lehmann, University of Kiel
EUGENE ASHER DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD
Robert D. Johnston, University of Illinois at Chicago
EQUITY AWARD
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of History
HERBERT FEIS AWARD IN PUBLIC HISTORY
Valerie Paley, Center for Women’s History, New-York Historical Society
NANCY LYMAN ROELKER MENTORSHIP AWARD
Omnia El Shakry, University of California, Davis
2020 AWARDS FOR PUBLICATIONS
HERBERT BAXTER ADAMS PRIZE IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
Alexander Bevilacqua, Williams College
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment (The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press)
GEORGE LOUIS BEER PRIZE IN EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL HISTORY
Emma Kuby, Northern Illinois University
Political Survivors: The Resistance, the Cold War, and the Fight against Concentration Camps after 1945 (Cornell Univ. Press)
JERRY BENTLEY PRIZE IN WORLD HISTORY
Toby Green, King’s College London
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (Univ. of Chicago Press)
ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE AWARD IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Jeremy Zallen, Lafayette College
American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750–1865 (Univ. of North Carolina Press)
PAUL BIRDSALL PRIZE IN EUROPEAN MILITARY AND STRATEGIC HISTORY
Brandon M. Schechter, NYU–Shanghai and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University
The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects (Cornell Univ. Press)
JAMES HENRY BREASTED PRIZE IN ANCIENT HISTORY
Charles Sanft, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Literate Community in Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times (SUNY Press)
ALBERT B. COREY PRIZE IN CANADIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS OR HISTORY
Jamie Benidickson, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press)
RAYMOND J. CUNNINGHAM PRIZE FOR UNDERGRADUATE JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jubilee Marshall, Villanova University (BA, 2019)
“Race, Death, and Public Health in Early Philadelphia, 1750–1793,” Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (Spring 2020)
JOHN K. FAIRBANK PRIZE IN EAST ASIAN HISTORY
Eiichiro Azuma, University of Pennsylvania
In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire (Univ. of California Press)
MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE IN BRITISH HISTORY
Tawny Paul, University of California, Los Angeles
The Poverty of Disaster: Debt and Insecurity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge Univ. Press)
LEO GERSHOY AWARD IN WESTERN EUROPEAN HISTORY
Margaret E. Schotte, York University
Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550–1800 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press)
WILLIAM AND EDWYNA GILBERT AWARD FOR THE BEST ARTICLE ON TEACHING HISTORY
Rien Fertel, writer; Elizabeth S. Manley, Xavier University of Louisiana; Jenny Schwartzberg, Historic New Orleans Collection; and Robert Ticknor, Historic New Orleans Collection
“Teaching in the Archives: Engaging Students and Inverting Historical Methods Classes at the Historic New Orleans Collection,” The History Teacher 53, no. 1 (November 2019)
FRIEDRICH KATZ PRIZE IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
Marixa Lasso, Ministerio de Cultura de Panamá
Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama Canal (Harvard Univ. Press)
JOAN KELLY MEMORIAL PRIZE IN WOMEN’S HISTORY
Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (W. W. Norton & Co.)
MARTIN A. KLEIN PRIZE IN AFRICAN HISTORY
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, University of Texas at Austin
Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence (Cambridge Univ. Press)
LITTLETON-GRISWOLD PRIZE IN US LEGAL HISTORY
Sarah Seo, Columbia Law School
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (Harvard Univ. Press)
J. RUSSELL MAJOR PRIZE IN FRENCH HISTORY
Joshua Cole, University of Michigan
Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria (Cornell Univ. Press)
HELEN & HOWARD R. MARRARO PRIZE IN ITALIAN HISTORY
James Hankins, Harvard University
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy (Harvard Univ. Press)
GEORGE L. MOSSE PRIZE IN EUROPEAN INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY
Joan Neuberger, University of Texas at Austin
This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia (Cornell Univ. Press)
JOHN E. O’CONNOR FILM AWARD
Documentary: Killing Patient Zero
Laurie Lynd, writer and director, and Corey Russell, producer (Fadoo Productions)
Dramatic Feature: Harriet
Kasi Lemmons, co-writer and director, and Debra Martin Chase, Daniela Taplin Lundberg, and Gregory Allen Howard, producers (Perfect World Pictures)
EUGENIA M. PALMEGIANO PRIZE IN THE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM
Vincent DiGirolamo, Baruch College, City University of New York
Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford Univ. Press)
JAMES A. RAWLEY PRIZE IN ATLANTIC HISTORY
Sophie White, University of Notre Dame
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the Univ. of North Carolina Press)
PREMIO DEL REY
Thomas W. Barton, University of San Diego
Victory’s Shadow: Conquest and Governance in Medieval Catalonia (Cornell Univ. Press)
JOHN F. RICHARDS PRIZE IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Sheetal Chhabria, Connecticut College
Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay (Univ. of Washington Press)
JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON PRIZE FOR TEACHING AIDS
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ohio State University
Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement (Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
DOROTHY ROSENBERG PRIZE IN HISTORY OF THE JEWISH DIASPORA
Tamar Herzig, Tel Aviv University
A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (Harvard Univ. Press)
ROY ROSENZWEIG PRIZE FOR INNOVATION IN DIGITAL HISTORY
Elaine Sullivan, University of California, Santa Cruz
Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford Univ. Press)
WESLEY-LOGAN PRIZE IN AFRICAN DIASPORA HISTORY
Benjamin Talton, Temple University
In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press)