Category: Awards

Call for Nominations: Book Prize, Research Society of American Periodicals

Deadline: December 20, 2024

Contact: Cynthia Patterson (cpatterson@usf.edu) or Jim Berkey (jhb5255@psu.edu)

The Research Society of American Periodicals invites submissions for its 2023-2024 Book Prize. The prize is awarded to the best scholarly monograph on the subject of periodicals of the Americas published between January 1, 2023 and December 31, 2024. We understand “the Americas” as a geopolitical region to encompass more than the fifty US states and we welcome submissions with local, regional, national, international, transnational, transatlantic, and/or hemispheric archives, methodologies, and orientations. We also consider serial publications that might not reflect the conventional form of periodicals like newspapers, scholarly journals, and magazines; therefore, books about publications like zines and comics as well as digital publications may be eligible for this prize. Please note that submissions from all fields and disciplines are welcome, though at this time we are only able to consider books written in English.

The prize winner will be awarded $1000. The prizewinner and two honorable mentions will also be provided with a one-year membership to the Research Society of American Periodicals, which includes a subscription to the society’s journal, American Periodicals. The winner and two honorable mentions will be invited to participate in an RSAP Book Prize Roundtable held at the 2025 American Literature Association conference. If the conference is held in person, all roundtable participants will be reimbursed for travel expenses related to the conference (up to $1000). In order to alleviate costs as much as possible and allow for an international panel of scholars to review submissions, we ask that all monographs be submitted in electronic form. 

To apply, please email Cynthia Patterson at cpatterson@usf.edu and Jim Berkey at jhb5255@psu.edu with the completed  registration form (attached below) as well as an electronic version of the monograph.

In order to be considered, all submissions must be received by December 20, 2024, 11:59 p.m., and award recipients will be notified by the end of January 2025.

For more about the Research Society for American Periodicals, visit https://www.periodicalresearch.org/ and follow on Twitter @RSAPeriodicals.

Contact Email

jhb5255@psu.edu

Call for Nominations: Arline Custer Memorial Award

Arline Custer Memorial Award, presented by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

DEADLINE:  July 31, 2024

The Arline Custer Memorial Award is presented by the MARAC Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee.  This award honors the memory of Arline Custer (1909-1975), MARAC member and editor of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.

Eligibility

The Arline Custer Memorial Award recognizes the best books and articles written or compiled by individuals and institutions in the MARAC region – the District of Columbia, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

Works under consideration include, but are not limited to: monographs, popular narratives, reference works and exhibition catalogs using archival sources.

Individuals or institutions may submit up to two works published between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.

Evaluation

Works must be relevant to the general public as well as the archival community. They also should be original and well researched using available sources. In addition, they should be clearly presented, well written and organized. Visual materials, if used, should be appropriate to the text.

Compiled works or works with multiple authors-such as edited volumes, co-authored works, or journals-will be reviewed in their entirety. Portions of a multiple-author work that do not meet award requirements may impact the submission’s final scoring.

Preference will be given to works by archivists.

Award

Up to three awards may be given, with a maximum value of $200.00 for books and $100.00 for articles. The 2024 award(s) may be announced at the fall 2024 MARAC business meeting or shared with MARAC members via another means.

Electronic Submission Instructions

Electronic submissions are preferred. Please send a PDF of the entirety of the work along with a PDF of a letter of nomination to the Senior Co-Chair of the Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee:

Elise DeAndrea

Archivist

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Email: deandree@upstate.edu

Physical Submission Instructions

Please send two physical copies of each submission with a letter of nomination to the Senior Co-Chair of the Arline Custer Memorial Award Committee. Please email the Sr. Co-Chair to request the mailing address.

Email: deandree@upstate.edu 

Entries must be received by July 31, 2024

For additional information about this award and a list of previous award winners, see the Arline Custer Memorial Award site: http://www.marac.info/arline-custer-memorial-award

Call for Nominations: AHS Archival History Article Award

The Archival History Section (AHS) is seeking nominations for its annual AHS Archival History Article award. The prize encourages and rewards an article or other short piece of excellence in the field of archival history, regardless of subject, time period, or national boundaries. Stand-alone chapters in edited essay collections or anthologies will also be considered. Nominations may include works by archivists as well as by others writing scholarly works on the history of records and archives. The work must be published in English during the previous calendar year (January-December 2023).

To be considered, please submit your article or short piece to Dane Flansburgh (dflansbu@syr.edu) by May 15, 2024.

Best Regards,

Dane Flansburgh, Chair, Archival History Section steering committee

Call for Nominations: SAA Publications Awards

The Society of American Archivists is in search of excellence! Do you know of an individual or organization that has made an outstanding contribution to the archives profession? Or promoted greater public awareness of archives? Have you published a groundbreaking book, written an outstanding article, or developed an innovative finding aid? Click on the links below to learn more about the below awards and nominate a deserving colleague—or yourself! Please consult the specific award for submission requirements and nomination form. Note that you can apply or be nominated for multiple awards in a single cycle, but may only receive one. The deadline for nominations is February 28. 

Winners of the 2023 Janette Harley Prize announced

Written by Amanda Engineer, BRA Secretary

The British Records Association is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Janette Harley Prize. The Prize is shared between two entries as follows:

Dr Ian Forrest and Christopher Whittick (translators and editors), for The Visitation of Hereford Diocese in 1397 (Canterbury & York Society, vol. CXI, 2021)

Dr Imogen Peck (Birmingham University), for “‘Of no sort of use’?: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Family Archive in Eighteenth Century England” (Cultural and Social History, vol. 20:2 for 2023, pp.183-204), and the accompanying blog series and online resources, part of the ‘Family Archives in Early Modern England’ research project supported by the Leverhulme Trust.

These contrasting prize-winners show the breadth and value of archival records, and the different ways in which they can be studied and made more accessible.

Forrest and Whittick: Bishops learn about their dioceses through visitations. Surviving medieval visitation records are rare and of great value to historians. Bishop John Trefnant’s visitation of his diocese of Hereford in 1397 is contained in Hereford Cathedral Archives (HCA) 1779. The visitation offers unparalleled insight into social life, sexual behaviour, religious belief and practice, and gender relations during a period of religious and political turmoil, revealing how the clergy were disciplined, how English- and Welsh-speakers interacted, and how the congregation experienced worship. It is also a treasure trove of information about the fabric of local churches and the administration of parishes before the Reformation. The document is a major early source for Welsh naming practices – indeed Bishop Trefnant himself came from a Welsh area, had a Welsh name, and employed Welsh-speaking scribes in his household.

This edition is designed for the non-professional reader, being the first of the Canterbury and York Society’s 111 volumes to be published in the original Latin with a facing English translation. Conscious attempts have been made to preserve the word-order of the original as far as is consistent with fluency of translation, and to avoid technical vocabulary. The edition has greatly increased the accessibility of the manuscript, which now is consulted as a matter of course by the Diocesan Advisory Committee on questions of church fabric.

Imogen Peck: Dr Peck’s work explores the role of family archives during Britain’s long eighteenth century, especially in the formation of memory and identity. This was a period of growing archival consciousness, yet the archives curated by families have hitherto been almost entirely overlooked. This research establishes their significance. It also challenges the tendency to value the institutional and formal (and often patriarchal) over the informal and domestic.

Tracing the curation of three family collections across several generations, the article in Cultural and Social History shows how the creation and transmission of family archives played a significant role in the memory and identity of relatively modest families. The article is supported by blog posts by the author and by undergraduate and A-level students which highlight other family archives held in record offices across the country. The author has also established a ‘Family Archives’ network where historians, archivists, and members of the public working on family collections can share their work. The recordings from the network’s online workshops are available on the project website.

Highly Commended

Prof. Steven King (Nottingham Trent University) and Paul Carter (TNA), and others, In Their Own Write: Contesting the New Poor Law, 1834–1900 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).

The prize was established in memory of Janette Harley, a member of the British Records Association, who died in 2015. It is intended to raise awareness of research and achievements in the world of archives, and is awarded for the best or most original piece of published work which reflects the aims of the Association: to promote the preservation, understanding, accessibility and study of our recorded heritage for the public benefit.

A call for entries to the 2024 Janette Harley Prize will be made in April.

Call for Nominations: NCPH Book Award

2024 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

The National Council on Public History invites nominations for its annual award for the best published book in public history. The Council seeks works about or growing out of public history theory, study, or practice, or that have compelling implications for the same. Books “growing out of” public history include, but are not limited to, exhibition catalogs, policy studies, and monographs that have a clear public dimension. Whether about or growing out of public history, successful contenders will clearly display the public aspects of their conception, development, and execution, and how they illuminate issues and concerns significant to audiences beyond the academy.

The NCPH Book Award consists of a $1,000 cash prize and a certificate, both presented at the NCPH Annual Meeting (to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2024). The award winner receives complimentary registration for the awards breakfast.

ELIGIBILITY

To be eligible for consideration, a book must have been published within the previous two calendar years (2022 and 2023). Entries may be monographs, edited collections of articles or essays, or any other published work of comparable scope. Singly and jointly authored/edited works are welcome, as are international topics.

AWARD CRITERIA

Criteria for selection include:

  1. Excellence and thoroughness of research
  2. Style and appropriateness of presentation
  3. Suitability and rigor of methodology
  4. Contribution to advancing the field of public history

(These four criterion receive equal weight in the book award committee’s discussions.)

SUBMISSION PROCESS

Fill out this form with the nominee’s information. The form includes a file upload for each author’s CV or resume. The completed form will be sent to each of the Book Award Committee members and to the NCPH executive office.

At the bottom of the form, in the “Shipping Information” section, please indicate when you will be sending the book and the shipping method you’ll be using. Send a copy of the book* to each of the Book Award Committee members and one to the NCPH executive office at:

NCPH Book Award
127 Cavanaugh Hall – IUPUI
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5148

Submissions must be received (not postmarked) no later than November 1, 2023.
*Please note that materials will not be returned.

Questions?  ncph@iupui.edu; (317) 274-2716

A challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities makes possible our expanding awards program and other uses of earned income on the NCPH endowment. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Call for Nominations: American Library Association’s “Best Historical Materials” List

The Historical Materials Committee of the American Library Association/Reference and User Services Association’s History Section is soliciting nominations for the committee’s annual Best Historical Materials list.

The list consists of the best print and online historical bibliographies, indexes, reference products, and published primary sources created, published, or significantly updated within the past two calendar years and primarily in English. The 2023 list will consider titles published or significantly updated in 2022 and 2023.

The committee encourages nominations from librarians, scholars, and students.

Nominations can be submitted for the committee’s consideration at https://forms.gle/ntm9UH8Y5M8pF5LbA .  The deadline for nominations is September 30.

For past winners, please see rusaupdate.org/awards/best-historical-materials/. For questions, please email one of the co-chairs of the Historical Materials Committee, Steve Knowlton (steven.knowlton@princeton.edu) or Jennifer Bartlett (jen.bartlett@uky.edu).

Contact Information
Steve Knowlton

Contact Email
sak2@princeton.edu

URL: https://forms.gle/ntm9UH8Y5M8pF5LbA

ISHMap Call for Proposals: 2024 Prize for Map Projects

Prize for Projects in Map History 2024

The International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) is pleased to invite nominations and self-nominations for its Prize for Projects in Map History.  

The ISHMap Prize in for Projects in Map History, awarded every two years and presented at the ISHMap General Assembly, will recognize a project that explores the history of maps and mapping outside of the format of an academic paper, book, or edited collection in a way that increases accessibility and engagement with maps and map history through innovative presentations. The prize will uplift projects that seek to expand the subjects, audience, scope, and/or methodology of engaging with the history of maps and mapping. Projects can take many forms including, but in no way limited to, physical exhibitions, datasets, online exhibitions, multimedia projects such as podcasts and films, thematic maps, games, and digital products.

The prize, to be announced at the Society’s General Meeting during the ICHC in July 2024, will consider projects that debuted or were substantively updated in 2022 and 2023.

Click here  for full prize description, and here for submission form

Deadline for nominations and self-nominations is December 31, 2023.

Call for Nominations: American Library Association’s “Best Historical Materials” List

The Historical Materials Committee of the American Library Association/Reference and User Services Association’s History Section is soliciting nominations for the committee’s annual Best Historical Materials list.

The list consists of the best print and online historical bibliographies, indexes, reference products, and published primary sources created, published, or significantly updated within the past two calendar years and primarily in English. The 2023 list will consider titles published or significantly updated in 2022 and 2023.

The committee encourages nominations from librarians, scholars, and students.

Nominations can be submitted for the committee’s consideration at https://forms.gle/ntm9UH8Y5M8pF5LbA . The deadline for nominations is September 30.

For past winners, please see rusaupdate.org/awards/best-historical-materials/. For questions, please email one of the co-chairs of the Historical Materials Committee, Steve Knowlton (steven.knowlton@princeton.edu) or Jennifer Bartlett (jen.bartlett@uky.edu).

Contact Information
Steve Knowlton, steven.knowlton@princeton.edu

Contact Email
steven.knowlton@princeton.edu
URL
https://forms.gle/ntm9UH8Y5M8pF5LbA

SAA Publishing Award Recipients

Congratulations to James Lowry, recipient of the Waldo Gifford Leland Award; Alston Brake Cobourn, Jen Corrinne Brown, Edward Warga, and Lisa Louis, recipients of the Fellows’ Ernst Posner Award; and Sony Prosper, recipient of the Theodore Calvin Pease Award.