The EHA recognizes excellence in research, publication, and teaching of economic history by awarding several annual and biennial prizes at the President's Awards Banquet during the annual meetings. Each fall the Announcements page on this web site and the EHA newsletter include Calls for Nominations and submission information.
Dissertation Awards
Dissertations chosen for presentation at the annual meetings are finalists for these annual awards.
- Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: June 1, 2008
The Allen Nevins Prize in American Economic History is awarded annually by the Economic History Association on behalf of Columbia University Press for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history completed during the previous year. The 2008 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association's annual meeting in New Haven in September 2008.
Scholars submitting a dissertation to the Nevins Prize competition should not in the same year submit a proposal to the general program that is part of or derived from the dissertation.
Please send submitted dissertations to:
Professor Zorina Khan
2440 Bancroft Way Suite 300
Boalt Hall School of Law
Berkeley CA 94704
email: bkhan@bowdoin.edu
- Alexander Gerschenkron Prize for the best dissertation in the economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: June 1, 2008
The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize in Economic History is awarded annually by the Economic History Association for the best dissertation in the economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada completed during the previous year. The 2007 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association's annual meeting in New Haven in September 2008.
Scholars submitting a dissertation to the Gerschenkron Prize competition should not in the same year submit a proposal to the general program that is part of or derived from the dissertation.
Please send submitted dissertations to:
Professor Kevin O'Rourke
Hameau le Villard
73670 Saint Pierre d'Entremont
France
email: kevin.orourke@tcd.ie
Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History
The annual Jonathan Hughes Prize is awarded to recognize excellence in teaching economic history. Jonathan Hughes was an outstanding scholar and a committed and influential teacher of economic history. The prize includes a $1,200 cash award. The winner is selected by the EHA Committee on Education and Teaching.
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2008
The Committee on Education of the Economic History Association invites nominations for the fourteenth annual Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History. Letters of nomination should state what qualities of excellence the candidate's teaching of economic history has embodied. The strength of the nominating letter will be the primary basis for selecting the pool of finalists for the prize. After arriving at a short list of finalists, the committee will gather further supporting information. Anyone is eligible to write a letter of nomination.
Letters of nomination should should be sent to:
Professor Dan Bogart
Department of Economics
University of California Irvinel
3151 Social Science Plaza
Irvine, CA 92657
email: mailto:jrosenbloom@ku.edu
Other members of the committee are:
Professor Juliette Levy
Department of History
HMNSS 5501
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
Email: juliette.levy@ucr.edu
Professor Carol Hua Shiue
Department of Economics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0256
email: shiue@colorado.edu
Publication Awards
- Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on North American Economic History
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2008
The Alice Hanson Jones Prize for an outstanding book in North American (including Caribbean) economic history will be presented at the Association's annual meeting in New Haven in September of 2008. This $1,200 prize is awarded biennially and alternates with the Gyorgi Ranki Prize for a book in European economic history.
Eligibility and Nominations: Only books published in English during 2006 or 2007 are eligible for the 2008 prize. The author need not be a member of the Association. Authors, publishers, or anyone else may nominate books. Authors or publishers should send a copy of the book, plus a curriculum vitae of the author(s), with current information on addresses and telephone numbers, to each member of the committee.
Information on additional members of the committee will be posted by December 2007.
Selection Committee:
Professor Shawn Kantor (chair)
SSHA
University of California, Merced
P.O. Box 2039
Merced, CA 95344
Email: skantor@ucmerced.edu
Professor Naomi Lamoreaux
Department of History
405 Hilgard Ave
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1473
Email: lamoreaux@econ.ucla.edu
Professor Howard Bodenhorn
Department of Economics and Business
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042-1776
Email: bodenhoh@lafayette.edu
Professor Chris Hanes
Department of Economics
SUNY Binghamton
P. O. Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902
email: chanes@binghamton.edu
Professor Gavin Wright
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
email: write@stanford.edu
- Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2009
The Ranki Prize was established by the Economic History Association in 1989 to honor the late Gyorgy Ranki, a distinguished Hungarian economic historian who taught in both Hungary and the United States. The Ranki Prize is awarded biennially for an outstanding book in European economic history and is in the amount of $1,200. It alternates with the Alice Hanson Jones Prize for a book in North American (including Caribbean) economic history.
The tenth Ranki Prize will be awarded in September 2009 for a book published in 2007 or 2008.
To be eligible, a book must be published in English and must, in whole or in substantial part, treat aspects of European economic history in any period from classical antiquity to the present. For purposes of this prize, Europe is understood to include European Russia as well as the British Isles. Books that compare European experience to that of other parts of the world, or that use historical information to examine present or anticipate future issues and trends, are also eligible as long as they pay significant attention to European economic history.
Nominations for the prize may be made by authors, publishers, or anyone else. Authors of nominated books need not be members of the Economic History Association. Date of publication rather than date of copyright determines eligibility. Translations of books published previously in a language other than English are eligible in the year of publication in English.
Whoever nominates a book should send a copy of the book and the curriculum vitae of the author(s) to each of the five members of the Ranki Prize committee.
For the 2009 award, the chair of the committee will be Professor Philip Hoffman:
Professor Philip T. Hoffman
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 22877
California Institute of Technology
115 Baxter Hall
Pasadena, CA 91125
email: pth@hss.caltech.edu
Other members of the committee will include
Professor Robert Allen
Department of Economics
Nuffield College
Oxford OX1 2DH
United Kingdom
email: robert.allen@nuf.ox.ac.uk
Professor Simone A. Wegge
Department of Political Science, Economics, and Philosophy
College of Staten Island
2800 Victory Boulevard
Staten Island, New York 10314
email: wegge@postbox.csi.cuny.edu
Professor George Grantham
Department of Economics
McGill University
Room 443, Leacock Building, 855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7
email: george.grantham@staff.mcgill.edu
- Arthur H. Cole Prize is awarded annually by the Editorial Board of the Journal of Economic History for the best article in the previous year's volume of the Journal.
Previous Prize Winners