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The 2021 BAAS Book Prize will open for submissions on 1 October 2020.
The £500 prize will be awarded for the best published book in American Studies this year. To be eligible for the 2020 BAAS Book Prize, books must have been published in English between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2020 and authors must be members of BAAS.
Authors or publishers may submit books, three copies of which should be sent to arrive no later than 7 December 2020 to:
Louise Cunningham
BAAS Administrator
c/o Professor Ian Bell
School of Humanities
Room CBB1.043
Chancellor’s Building
Keele University
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG
Authors or publishers sending books should confirm their intention to submit items for this award by e-mailing awards@baas.ac.uk.
Please note that books received after the deadline will not be eligible for consideration. Authors and publishers submitting books for consideration should ensure they are sent in time to arrive before the deadline. If your book is due to be published close to the deadline then please contact us at awards@baas.ac.uk.
BAAS is committed to promoting best practice in matters of equality and diversity, and will be attentive to issues of equality and diversity when judging applications.For enquiries about the awards, contact awards@baas.ac.uk[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”5522″ css_animation=”fadeInRight” border_color=”grey” img_link_target=”_self” img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][dt_gap height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]
Previous winners of the BAAS Book Prize
BAAS Book Prize 2020
Eithne Quinn, The University of Manchester
A Piece of the Action: Race and Labor in Post-Civil Rights Hollywood (Columbia University Press, 2019)
Honourable Mentions
Pekka Hämäläinen, University of Oxford
Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale University Press, 2019)
Sarah Miller-Davenport, The University of Sheffield
Gateway State: Hawai‘i and the Cultural Transformation of American Empire (Princeton University Press, 2019)
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BAAS Book Prize 2019
Megan Black, London School of Economics and Political Science
The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)
Honourable mentions
June Howard, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Center of the World: Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
Daniel Peart, Queen Mary, University of London
Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816-1861 (Baltimore: John’s Hopkins University Press, 2018)
Graham Thompson, University of Nottingham
Herman Melville: Among the Magazines (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2018)
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BAAS Book Prize 2018
Professor Robert Cook, University of Sussex
Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States Since 1865 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)
Honourable Mention
Dr Tom Davies, University of Sussex
Mainstreaming Black Power (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017)
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BAAS Book Prize 2017
Dr Peter Knight, University of Manchester
Reading the Market: Genres of Financial Capitalism in Gilded Age America (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2016)
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BAAS Book Prize 2014
Simon Newman University of Glasgow
A New World of Labour: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
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BAAS Book Prize 2013
Celeste-Marie Bernier University of Nottingham
Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination
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BAAS Book Prize 2012
Paul Quigley
University of Edinburgh
Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865
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BAAS Book Prize 2011
Stephen Tuck
University of Oxford
We Ain’t What We Ought To Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama
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BAAS Book Prize 2010
Peter Messent
University of Nottingham
Mark Twain and Male Friendship: The Twichell, Howells, and Rogers Friendships
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BAAS Book Prize 2008
Kasia Boddy
University College London
Boxing: A Cultural History
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BAAS Book Prize 2007
Richard Godden
University of California, Irvine
William Faulkner: An Economy of Complex Words
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BAAS Book Prize 2006
Simon Middleton
University of East Anglia
From Privileges to Rights
Honourable mention to:
Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University)
Walt Whitman and the Class Struggle
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BAAS Book Prize 2005
Richard Follett
University of Sussex
The Sugar Masters: Planters and Slaves In Louisiana’s Cane World, 1820-1860
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BAAS Book Prize 2004
Richard King
University of Nottingham
Race, Culture and the Intellectuals, 1940-1970 (Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][dt_gap height=”20″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]
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