Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize

The Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on North American Economic History.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2012

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 Vancouver in September of 2012. 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 2010 or 2011 are eligible for the 2012 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.

Selection Committee:

Professor Gavin Wright (chair)
Department of Economics
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
email: write@stanford.edu

Professor Maggie Levenstein
Institute for Social Research
3260 Institute for Social Research
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
email: maggiel@isr.umich.edu

Professor Peter Coclanis
Department of History
Hamilton Hall, CB#3195
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195 
Email: coclanis@unc.edu

Professor Price Fishback
Department of Economics
University of Arizona
Tuscon, AZ 85721-0108
email:  pfishback@eller.arizona.edu

Professor Werner Troesken
Department of Economics
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
email: troesken@pitt.edu