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
The Nevins and Gerschenkron prize are awarded annually for the best dissertations on North-American and non-North American topics completed during the previous year. Six finalists, three for each award, will be chosen to present dissertation summaries at the Seventieth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association in Evanston, Illinois in September 2010. Finalists will receive $250 to defray travel expenses. Award recipients receive a cash prize of $1,200.
Scholars submitting a dissertation may not in the same year submit a proposal to the general program that is part of or derived from the dissertation. On an exception basis the Association will allow a two year window following thesis completion for submission.
Allan Nevins Prize
The Allan Nevins Prize is awarded on behalf of Columbia University Press for the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History published during the preceding year.
DEADLINE FOR POSTMARKED ENTRIES: June 11, 2010
Please send submitted dissertations to:
Professor Eric Hilt
Department of Economics
Pendleton East, Wellesley College
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481 USA
email: ehilt@wellesley.edu
Alexander Gerschenkron Prize
- The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize is awarded for the best dissertation in the economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada published during the preceding year.
DEADLINE FOR POSTMARKED ENTRIES: June 11, 2010
Please send submitted dissertations to:
Professor Nathan Sussman
Department of Economics
The Hebrew University
Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, 91905
Israel
email: nsussman@mscc.huji.ac.il
- ELIGIBILITY: Those who received their Ph.D. between June 1, 2009 and May 31, 2010 are eligible and invited to submit their dissertation. You must be a member of the Economic History Association to submit and the dissertation must be in English. Planned attendance at the meeting is required for submitting an application, and presentation of a summary is required for a prize. To be considered for either of these prizes, completed dissetations must be submitted in hard copy on or before June 11, 2010. Notices of acceptance or rejection will be sent by July 20, 2010. Dissetrtations will not be returned unless you send a self addressed envelope with your submission.
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, 2010
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 Carol Hua Shiue
Department of Economics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0256
email: shiue@colorado.edu
Other members of the committee are:
Professor Phil Coelho
Department of Economics
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 47306
email: 00prcoelho@bsu.edu
Professor Leah Platt Boustan
Department of Economics
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angles, CA 90095
email: lboustan@econ.ucla.edu
Publication Awards
Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Prize
- 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 Evanstson in September of 20010. 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.
Selection Committee:
Professor Howard Bodenhorn (Chair)
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
Professor Peter Coclanis
Department of History
405 Hilgard Ave
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
LChapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
Email: coclanis@unc.edu
Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize
The Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize is awarded every other year for an Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: March 1, 2011
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 2011 for a book published in 2009 or 2010
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 2010, the chair of the committee is
Professor Robert Margo
Department of Economics
Boston University
Boston, MA 02215
email: margora@bu.edu
Other members of the committee include
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
Professor Bruce Carruthers
Department of Sociology
Northwsetern University
Evanston, IL 60208-1330
email: b-carruthers@northwestern.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