Alexander Gerschenkron Prize: For the best dissertation in economic history dealing with an area outside the United States or Canada

Winner: Christoph Alexander Hess, King’s College, University of Cambridge, – “Inheritance, Family Structure, and Economic Development in the Lower Yangzi Region, c.1650-1950”

Allan Nevins Prize: For the best dissertation in U.S. or Canadian economic history

Winner: Pier Paolo Creanza, Current Affiliation: Swarthmore College, PhD Affiliation: Princeton University – “Essays on the Economics and History of Innovation: Institutions, Migration, and Firm Consolidation” 

Arthur H. Cole Prize: For the best article published in the Journal of Economic History since September of the previous year

Winners: Amanda Gregg (Middlebury College), Anne Ruderman (London School of Economics) for the article: Cross-Cultural Trade and the Slave Ship the Bonne Société: Baskets of Goods, Diverse Sellers, and Time Pressure on the African Coast. The Journal of Economic History. 2025;85(3):874-913.

Distinguished Referee Award: For the Journal of Economic History

Winner: Joy Chen, Renmin University of China

Distinguished Service to the Editorial Board: For the Journal of Economic History

Winner: Gary Richardson, University of California at Irvine and NBER

Larry Neal Prize: For the best article published in Explorations in Economic History in the previous year

Winners: Jonathan Jayes (Lund University), Jakob Molinder (Uppsala University), and Kerstin Enflo (Lund University) for: “Power for progress: The impact of electricity on individual labor market outcomes, Explor. Econ. Hist., 98 (2025), Article 101702”

Distinguished Referee Award: For Explorations in Economic History

Winners: James Feigenbaum (Boston University) and Mark Carlson (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve)

Alice Hanson Jones Prize: for an Outstanding Book on North American Economic History

Winners: Joe Moen (University of Mississippi) and Mary Tone Rodgers (State University of New York, Oswego) for the book: Before the Fed: J.P. Morgan, America’s Lender of Last Resort, Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Jonathan Hughes Teaching Prize: For excellence in teaching economic history

Winner: Tomáš Cvrček, University College London

Engerman-Goldin Prize: for creating, compiling, and sharing data and information with scholars.

Winners: Richard Hornbeck (University of Chicago), Anders Humlum (University of Chicago), Martin Rotemberg (NYU) for: Digitizing the 1850-1880 Censuses of Manufactures (CMFdata.org)