Printable version of the Book Prize information

WORLD HISTORY ASSOCIATION BOOK PRIZE, 2010
Created in 1999, the World History Association (WHA) Book Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of world history. The prize is $500. Formal bestowal of the check is made at the WHA annual meeting, normally held in June. If the author cannot attend, the WHA Executive Director or Treasurer will mail him/her the check following the annual meeting.

Authors, publishers, WHA members, or other interested parties may nominate books published during a calendar year.  Nominations must be received by February 1 in order to allow time for the Prize Committee to evaluate them. 

Copies of nominated books for the 2010 WHA Book Prize should be sent to the following members of the Book Prize Committee.  Please note that only books published in 2008 are eligible for this competition.  Entries must be submitted by February 1, 2010 to allow time for juror evaluations.

World History Association Book Prize Committee, 2010
Anand A. Yang, chair
Box 353650
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-3650

John K. Thornton
891 Belmont St.
Watertown, MA 02472

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Dept. of History
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413
Miwaukee, WI 53201-0413

Past Winners

Winners
World History Association Book Prize, 1999-present

2009: Co-Winner: Adam McKeown from Columbia University with his book on migration Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders, 1834-1929 and Co-Winner: Joachim Radkau from Bielefeld University with his book Nature and Power:  A Global History of the Environment

2008: Stuart Banner, Possessing the Pacific Land, Settlers, and Indigenous People from Australia to Alaska (Harvard University Press)

2007: Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration (Oxford University Press (U.K.) and W. W. Norton (North America)

2006: No prize granted

2005: David Christian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (University of California Press)

2004: Victor Lieberman, Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800 – 1830, Vol. I: “Integration on the Mainland” (Cambridge University Press)

2003: Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 (Cambridge University Press)

2002: Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

2001: Co-Winner: John McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of The Twentieth Century World (W.W. Norton) and Co-Winner: Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press)

2000: James McClellan III and Harold Dorn, Science and Technology in World History: An Introduction (Johns Hopkins University Press)

1999: Andre Gunder-Frank, Re-Orient: Global Economy in the Asian Age (University of California Press)

 

Printable version of the Teaching Prize information

PURPOSE:: The World History Association is committed to working across all grade levels to maintain the use of current world history research in classroom practice.

THE SOURCES:Current historical research most frequently found in books and scholarly articles is a significant inspiration for our teaching. The WHA is committed to encouraging teachers at all levels to turn to substantive scholarship for content ideas. We are seeking lessons either inspired by or directly related to recent World History scholarship, including but not limited to pieces in the Journal of World History, published within the last ten years.

AWARD:The winning lesson will be published in the Fall WHA Bulletin. The designer of the winning lesson will receive a $750.00 cash award sponsored by Pearson-Prentice Hall and recognition at the WHA Annual Meeting in June. Educators may have a letter announcing the award sent to their supervisors and local press.

DEADLINE: Send one copy by MAY 1, 2010 to each of the committee members listed below. Submissions from all grade levels are welcome.

PAST WINNERS

World History Association Teaching Prize
Past Winners

2009: Daniel Greenstone, “Teaching the Axial Age Through a Biographical Comic Book of Buddha’s Life,” Oak Park and River Forest High School, Oak Park, Illinois

2008: Sharlene Sayegh, “The Logical Fallacies of Nationalism: Critical Thinking in the World-History Classroom,” Department of History, California State University, Long Beach

2007: Cedric Beidatsch, “Gateway to the Seventeenth Century: Dutch Shipwrecks on the West Australian Coast,” University of West Australia, Perth, Australia

2006: Maggie Favretti, “Bound by a Silver Chain: 1571,” Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, New York

2005: Monica Bond-Lamberty, “Is There Really Something New Under the Sun?” James Madison Memorial High School, Madison, Wisconsin

2004: Michael A. Marcus, “Steppes to Civilization: Tracing the World History of ‘Global Systems’ Through Textiles and an Interdisciplinary Approach” Berlin   High School, Berlin, Connecticut

2003:
Co-winner: Jessica Young, “A World History Research Education Project Adaptable for Honors, Advanced Placement, or Collegiate World History Classes” Oak Park and River Forest High School, Oak Park, Illinois
Co-winner: Linda Black, “The Economic Role of Women in World History,” Cypress Falls High School, Houston, Texas

2002: Linda Karen Miller, “Japanese Colonialism in Korea 1910-1945” Fairfax High School, Fairfax, Virginia

 

So as to encourage new recipients, winners from anytime in the past three years, as well as committee members, are ineligible

These are suggestions to guide your thinking. Feel free to add to the prompt questions below.

1. Brief introduction
   For whom is the lesson intended?
   What is the purpose of the lesson?
   How does it fit into your curriculum, or larger plan?
   What are the lesson's links to current research?
2. Procedures for implementation
   What preparatory work is assigned?
   How does the lesson work? (procedure, number of sessions, etc.)
   How do you know that students have "gotten it?"
3. Conclusion
   Reflections on how it went in your class?
   (Student work and/or student reflections are encouraged)
   How might you adapt it to more advanced or lower level students?
   What other possible conceptual links do you see?

Possible Appendices:

1. Appendix of relevant handouts or supporting materials used
2. Annotated list of available resources for students and teachers

Send one copy to each of the following Teaching Award Committee members by MAY 1, 2010:

Jen Laden
47 Arapaho Road
Brookfield, CT 06804
murphyladen@aol.com

Carol Adamson
Gumshornsgatan 7
114 60 Stockholm
SWEDEN
carol.adamson@glocalnet.net

Deborah Johnston
2126 N. 86th Street
Seattle, WA. 98103
Deborah.johnston@lakesideschool.org

Linda Black
P.O. Box 13018
SFA Station Nacogdoches, TX 75962-3018
Tel.: 936-468-2908, x1847
blacklj@sfasu.edu

Jonathan Reynolds
Associate Professor of History
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099
Sagiru@gmail.com

Omar H. Ali
African American and Diaspora Studies
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351516
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN  37235-1516
omarhali@vanderbilt.edu

Entries must be e-mailed or postmarked by June 30, 2009

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Phi Alpha Theta and the World History Association, with a generous subvention from Pearson Prentice Hall, Inc., a publisher of history textbooks, are co-sponsoring two student paper prizes in world history, each of $400, for the best undergraduate world history paper and the best graduate-level world history paper composed in the 2008-09 academic year.

A world history paper is one that examines any historical issue with global implications. Such studies can include, but are not limited to, the exchange and interchange of cultures, the comparison of two or more civilizations or cultures, or the study in a macro-historical manner of a phenomenon that had a global impact. For example, world history topics might include a study of the trans-cultural impact of Eurasia's Silk Road; a comparative study of the Ottoman and British empires; or the worldwide impact of the Influenza Pandemic of 1919.

To be eligible, students must be members of either The World History Association (www.thewha.org) or Phi Alpha Theta (www.phialphatheta.org) and must have composed the paper while enrolled at an accredited college or university during 2008-2009.

The Committee will judge papers according to the following criteria: world historical scope; originality of research; depth of analysis; and prose style.

Submission guidelines:

• Submissions must be no longer than 30 typewritten, double-spaced pages of text, exclusive of the title page, endnotes, and bibliography.
• Number all pages except for the title page.
• Endnotes must conform to standard historical formats. Do not use parenthetical notes.
• The author's identity is to appear nowhere on the paper.
• A separate, unattached page should accompany the paper, identifying the author, title of paper, home address, telephone number, e-mail address, college affiliation, graduating year and status (undergraduate or graduate student), and the association (WHA or PAT) to which the person belongs. Phi Alpha Theta members must indicate the institution at which they were inducted and the year.
• A one-page (250-word) abstract must accompany each submission. Abstracts of winning papers will be published in all announcements of competition results.
• Additionally, a letter or e-mail from a relevant history faculty member (the supervising professor, the Chair of the department, or the Phi Alpha Theta chapter advisor) must attest to the fact that the paper was composed during the 2008-2009 academic year.
• Papers that do not adhere to these guidelines will be disqualified.

Submit the paper either:

• Via MS Word e-mail attachments of
  1) the paper;
  2) the page with identifying information; and
  3) the abstract.
  The faculty member’s letter must be e-mailed or posted separately.
• Email to the Committee Chair, Laura E. Wangerin, lwangerin@latinschool.org

OR

• Via hardcopy to the Committee Chair, below. Hardcopy submissions must include four (4) printed copies each of the paper, the page with identifying information, the abstract, and the faculty member’s letter.
• Mail to:

Laura E. Wangerin
Department of History
The Latin School of Chicago
59 West North Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60610

Winning papers are eligible for consideration for publication in the various journals of the World History Association and Phi Alpha Theta, but no promise of publication accompanies any award.