Editor's Note
All, Please note that we have extended the deadline for ALL prizes to 15 March 2024. Thank you!
Hello, scholars! We are proud to sponsor several prizes honoring your scholarship in American intellectual history. Please see below for the 2024 awards and note that all submissions are due by 1 March 2024. Should you have any questions, please contact us at [email protected]. Thank you.
S-USIH 2023 Annual Book Award
The Society for U. S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) is pleased to open the call for submissions for its Annual Book Award for the best book in U.S. intellectual history. The book should be a work of original scholarship and should cover some aspect of American intellectual history. Books eligible for the 2024 award must have been published in English in the period between Jan. 1, 2023, and Dec. 31, 2023. Any member of the Society or any publisher may nominate books for the award. The winner, announced in summer 2024, receives a $500.00 prize and recognition at the 2024 conference in Boston. The winning author must be a member of the Society at the time of this presentation. A copy of the nominated book must be sent to each of the following three committee members no later than 1 March 2024. A separate letter listing each book submitted should be sent to the committee in order to verify arrival. The committee members are:
Shelby Balik
7062 South Trenton Drive
Centennial, CO 80112
Ajay Mehrota
2669 Orrington Ave.
Evanston, IL 60201
Josh Shepperd
455 Strathmore LN
Apt. 308
Lafayette, CO 80026
S-USIH Leo P. Ribuffo Dissertation Prize
In 2019, the Society for U.S. Intellectual History established the Leo P. Ribuffo Prize for Best Dissertation in U.S. Intellectual History. Ribuffo, a revered scholar and exemplary mentor, reshaped the field during his long and illustrious career at George Washington University. The award seeks to honor his life and career by recognizing the distinguished work of emerging scholars and to advance the highest levels of research, writing, and scholarship. We are pleased to open the call for submissions for dissertations completed and successfully defended in 2023. The winner, announced in summer 2024, receives recognition at the 2024 conference in Boston. Eligible candidates or their mentors should submit a copy of the dissertation as an attached email, saved as a PDF, to all committee members by 1 March 2024:
Benjamin L. Alpers, University of Oklahoma: [email protected]
Elesha Coffman, Baylor University: [email protected]
Joan Shelley Rubin, University of Rochester: [email protected]
S-USIH Dorothy Ross Prize
The Society for U.S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Dorothy Ross Prize for the best article in U.S. intellectual history by an emerging scholar (defined as a current graduate student or a scholar within 5 years of receiving the PhD). The article must have appeared in an academic journal in the 2023 calendar year and may be submitted by the author, editor, or anyone else. The winner, announced in summer 2024, receives a $500.00 prize and recognition at the 2024 conference in Boston. Please submit the article (page proofs acceptable, PDF’s strongly recommended), a copy of the table of contents of the issue in which it appeared, and the author’s email address to all committee members by 1 March 2024:
Jennifer Burns, Stanford University: [email protected]
Natalie Mendoza Gutteriez, University of Colorado, Boulder: [email protected]
David Sehat, Georgia State University: [email protected]
S-USIH John Dewey Prize
The Society for US Intellectual History (S-USIH) is pleased to announce this call for submissions for the 2024 John Dewey Prize. This triennial prize honors an excellent book of original research published between 2021-2023 on the history of American philosophy, broadly understood. Funded by a generous grant from the John Dewey Foundation, this prize consists of a $500.00 award. With this prize we honor the legacy of the Dewey Foundation and its commitment to the scholarly study of the work of Dewey and American philosophy, and look to support one aspect of that legacy: commitment to the historical study of philosophy and formal thought.The Dewey Award supplements the existing S-USIH Book Award by recognizing the history of philosophy and formal argumentation as a distinct area of study within the broader field of intellectual history. But, in the spirit of Dewey, the prize will also consider “philosophy” to refer to a broader domain than a narrow and technical definition of the discipline of philosophy might allow. For the current cycle the book, must have a copyright of 2021, 2022, or 2023. The winner, announced in summer 2024, receives recognition at the 2024 conference in Boston. Please send one copy of your submission(s), to each of the three members of the award committee by 1 March 2024:
Michelle Nickerson
58I2 N. Christiana Ave.
Chicago, IL 60659
Kevin M. Schultz
533 S. Kenilworth Ave.
Oak Park, IL 60304
Molly Worthen
608 Hillsborough Rd
Carrboro, NC 27510
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