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Prizes

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, 2009

    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 2009 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association's annual meeting in Tuscon in September 2009.

    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 John Murray
    Department of Economics
    4110 University Hall
    University of Toledo
    2801 W. Bancroft St.
    Toledo, OH 43606-3390


    email: jmurray@uoft02@utoledo.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, 2009

    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 2009 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association's annual meeting in Tuscon in September 2009.

    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 Steven Broadberry
    Department of Economics
    University of Warwick
    Coventry CV4 7AL
    United Kingdom

    email: s.n.broadberry@warwick.ac.uk 

    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: April 1, 2009

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 Juliette Levy
Department of History
University of California, Riverside
5501 HMNSS Building
Riverside, CA 92657
email: mailto:juliette.levy@ucr.edu

Other members of the committee are:

Professor Carol Hua Shiue
Department of Economics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0256
email: shiue@colorado.edu

Professor Phil Coelho
Department of Economics
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
email: 00prcoelho@bsu.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, 2010

    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 2008 or 2009 are eligible for the 2010 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 2009.

    Selection Committee:

    Professor Naomi Lamoreaux (chair)
    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

    Professor Dora Costa
    Department of Economics
    9272 Bunche Hall
    University of California, Los Angeles
    Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477
    Email: costa@econ.ucla.edu 

    Gyorgi Ranki Biennial PrizeThe 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 Margo
    Department of Economics
    Boston University
    Boston, MA 02215
    email: margora@bu.edu

    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.ca

    Professor Joerg Baten
    Department of Economics
    University of Tuebingen
    Mohlstrasse 36  
    Tuebingen D-72074 GERMANY
    email: joerg.baten@uni-tuebingen.de


  • 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