The Society for U. S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) is pleased to announce the 2020 Dorothy Ross Prize for best article in U.S. intellectual history. This award goes to an emerging scholar, defined as a current graduate student or a scholar within five years of receiving the PhD. The article must have appeared in an academic journal in the 2020 calendar year and may be submitted by the author, editor, or others. The winner receives $500.
This year’s prize goes to Asheesh Kapur Siddique (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) for “The Archival Epistemology of Political Economy in the Early Modern British Atlantic,” published in the William & Mary Quarterly [3rd Ser., 77, No. 4 (Oct. 2020), 641-674].
The committee’s statement: “Original in its approach to examining the history of archival work, Siddique provides a rich and carefully researched account of the growing importance of archives for British imperialism over the eighteenth century. Furthermore, by tracing the rise and decline of archival methods in the British empire by the nineteenth century, his article helps historicize, flesh out, and then frustrate, our understanding of the relationship between knowledge and power.”
This year’s honorable mention goes to Mahshid Mayar (Bielefeld University, Germany) for “What on Earth! Slated Globes, School Geography, and Imperial Pedagogy,” published in the European Journal of American Studies [15.2, Spring 2020]. The committee commends the author’s “innovative approach to intellectual history in centering K-12 education and by historicizing the relationship between ideas and material culture and their links to American imperial history.”
.We thank the Selection Committee:
Kimberly Hamlin (co-chair), Miami University
Eran Zelnik (co-chair), California State University, Chico
Chris Suh, Emory University
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