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Submissions for the 2021 awards will be accepted from 1 October 2020 onwards.
The Arthur Miller Institute Prize for Best Journal Length Article
The Arthur Miller Institute Prize of £500 is awarded for the best journal length article on any American Studies topic by a United Kingdom citizen based at home or abroad or by a non-UK citizen who publishes their essay in a United Kingdom journal, providing that the entrant is a member of the British Association of American Studies in the year of submission.
Submissions, including the article and publications details, should be e-mailed to Emma Long at emma.long@uea.ac.uk or, if preferred, three hard copies should be mailed to the address below.
Deadline: 3 January 2021
The Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize
The Arthur Miller Institute First Book Prize of £500 is awarded for the best first book on any American Studies topic in the preceding calendar year by a United Kingdom citizen based at home or abroad or by a non-UK citizen who publishes a book, providing that the entrant is a member of the British Association of American Studies in the year of submission.
Books submitted for consideration for the BAAS book prize are ineligible for consideration for the Arthur Miller Centre First Book Prize.
Those interested in entering a book for consideration should submit four copies, including publication details, to:
Dr Emma Long
The Arthur Miller Institute Prize Committee
c/o School of Art, Media, and American Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich Research Park
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
UK
Please note that books should arrive no later than 18 December 2020. Books received after this date will not be considered. Authors are responsible for ensuring that publishers send books to arrive before the deadline.
For more details about these awards, please contact Dr Emma Long at emma.long@uea.ac.uk. The Awarding Committee includes a representative from the American Studies Sector at UEA and a BAAS committee member. The Awarding Committee is unable to notify unsuccessful applicants or to return copies of books and articles submitted for consideration.
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.
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Past Winners:
2020:
Arthur Miller Centre Book Prize
Dr Charlie Laderman, King’s College London: Sharing the Burden: Armenia, Humanitarian Intervention and the Search for an Anglo-American Alliance, 1895-1923
Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize
Professor Clive Webb, University of Sussex: The Nazi persecution of Jews and the African American freedom struggle
(Honourable mention to Dr Kaetan Mistry, University of East Anglia: A Transnational Protest against the National Security State: Whistle-Blowing, Philip Agee, and Networks of Dissent)
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2019:
Arthur Miller Centre Book Prize
Dr Tim Jelfs, University of Groningen: The Argument About Things in the 1980s: Goods and Garbage in the Age of Neoliberalism (West Virginia University Press, 2018)
Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize
Professor Bridget Bennett, University of Leeds: “The Silence Surrounding the Hut”: Architecture and Absence in Wieland”, Early American Literature, 53:2 (2018)
(Honourable mention to Professor Simon Newman, University of Glasgow: “Disney’s American Revolution”, Journal of American Studies, 52:3 (August 2018)
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2018:
Arthur Miller Centre Book Prize
Sam Reese, University of Northampton
The Short Story in Midcentury America: Bowles, McCarthy, Welty, and Williams (Louisiana State University Press, 2017)
Nicholas Grant, University of East Anglia
Winning Our Freedoms Together: African-Americans and Apartheid, 1945-1960 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017)
Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize
Rebecca Gould, University of Birmingham
Punishing Violent Thoughts: Islamic Dissent and Thoreauvian Disobedience in Post-9/11 America
Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize – Honourable Mention
Christopher Phelps, University of Nottingham
The Sexuality of Malcolm X
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2017:
Arthur Miller Centre Book Prize
Dr J. Michelle Coghlan, University of Manchester
Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize
Professor Maria Lauret, University of Sussex
‘Americanization Now and Then: The “Nation of Immigrants” in the Early Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries’
Arthur Miller Centre Essay Prize – Honourable Mention
Dr Nicholas Grant, University of East Anglia
‘The National Council of Negro Women and South Africa: Black Internationalism, Motherhood, and the Cold War’
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