awards

Historians Among New Electees to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Congratulations to Jean Allman, Marcia Chatelain, Linda Colley, Nelson Lichtenstein, Ann M. McGrath, Tiya Miles, and Steven J. Zipperstein on their election to the AAAS in 2023. 

Historians Prominent Among 2023 Guggenheim Winners

Congratulations to all the recipients of th 2023 awards and grants. 

Nine Historians Awarded Dan David Prize

In 2021 the David Dan Prize adopted an explicit focus on supporting and honoring contributions to historical understanding. Nine scholars have received awards of $300,000 to advance their work. 

Tiya Miles is the Winner of the 2022 Cundill History Prize

"All that She Carried" was a unanimous choice of the prestigious prize's jurors. 

The AHA Announces 2022 Prize Winners

Congratulations to this years honorees for publication, teaching, mentoring and service to the profession. 

Historians Among 2022 Guggenheim Awardees

"On April 7, 2022, the Board of Trustees of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation approved the awarding of Guggenheim Fellowships to a diverse group of 180 exceptional individuals."

The OAH Announces Annual Prize Winners

The Organization of American Historians has released its 2022 honorees for scholarship, service, and contributions to history. 

Winners Announced for Dan David Prize, a Mac Arthur-Style Grant for Historians

by Gillian Brockell

The Dan David Prize has defined its focus as supporting historians, in recognition of the public significance of historical knowledge and the political and institutional attacks on the discipline and its practitioners. 

AHA Announces 2021 Prize Winners

HNN congratulates the winners of the AHA's awards for publication, teaching, and service to the profession. 

Society of American Historians Announces 2021 Prize Winners

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Christopher Tomlins, Brianna Nofil and Afia Atakora are recognized by the Society of American Historians for their achievements in the last year. 

Honoring Excellence, Electing New Members: New Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Historians are represented among the 2020 electees to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

2021 Winners of the Guggenheim Fellowship are Announced

Historians are prominently represented among the just-announced winners of the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowships for 2021.

2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner

Notre Dame professor Sophie White's "Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor and Longing in French Louisiana" is the winner of the 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book on the history of slavery, resistance and abolition. 

2020 Awards, Prizes, And Honors Announced

As of Wednesday, some important winners have been announced--the AHA's annual prizes for scholarship, teaching, and contributions to the historical profession.

American Historical Association Announces 2020 Prize Winners

This year’s finalists were selected from a field of over 1,400 entries by nearly 150 dedicated prize committee members.

UHA Announces Award Winners

The Urban History Association announces its annual awards for best book, best journal article, and best dissertation.

Danielle Allen Wins Re-envisioned Kluge Humanities Prize

Dr. Allen, a Harvard political theorist whose work has spanned the Declaration of Independence and the governmental response to Covid-19, will lead an effort to cultivate “civic strength.”

David Abulafia’s ‘The Boundless Sea’ wins Wolfson History Prize 2020

David Abulafia's book tells the global history of humanity through its relationship to the oceans.

Thomas J. Brown is 2020 Winner of the Tom Watson Brown Book Award

Thomas J. Brown's book on the memorialization of the Civil War and American attitudes toward militarization has been honored with the Thomas Watson Brown Book Award. 

Continuing to Reshape Women’s History: The Ongoing Story of Nontraditional Women Historians

by Julie Gallagher and Barbara Winslow

The editors of a collection of essays by non-traditional women historians celebrate the impact of the Catherine Prelinger Award (of the Coordinating Council for Women in History), which aided the scholarship published in their book and is supporting a new generation of women historians expanding the scope of the field to address race, disability, indigeneity, and mass incarceration (among other issues).