The WHA Book Prize is awarded each year for outstanding achievement in a World History Book. The prize recognizes new scholarly studies of history from a global or transregional perspective that make a significant contributions to the growing field of World History. Past Winners

Winners
World History Association Book Prize, 1999-present

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)

 

Composition of the Committee: Three WHA members, preferably representing a cross-section of geographic, temporal, and methodological approaches. Committee is selected by the WHA President, subject to approval by the WHA Executive Council. There are no fixed terms. For current committee members, see below.

What are we looking for? New scholarly studies of history from a global perspective; i.e. thematic in a transregional context or else overtly comparative, that make a significant contribution to the field of world history. Anthologies may be nominated, but single or dual-authored works are preferred. For past award winners, see below.

Who can nominate? Authors, publishers, WHA members, or other interested parties may nominate books published in the current calendar year. Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the committee.

Award amount: $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.

Deadline: This year's deadline is January 15, 2008 for books published in 2007.

Award notification: When the Committee has made its selection, the Committee Chair sends his/her letter of congratulations to the winning author with copies to the publisher, WHA President, Executive Director, and Treasurer.

The letter should invite the author to accept the award in person at the annual meeting of the WHA, usually held in June. Details of where and when the meeting will be can be obtained from the WHA Headquarters.

Copies of books you wish to nominate for the 2007 WHA Book Prize should be sent to the following members of the Book Prize Committee.  Please note that only books published in 2006 are eligible for this competition.  Entries must be submitted by January 15, 2008.

World History Association Book Prize Committee

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

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 The Journal of World History) is a significant inspiration for our teaching. The WHA is committed to encouraging teachers at all levels to turn to scholarship for content ideas. We are seeking lessons either inspired by or directly related to World History scholarship 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, 2008 to each of the committee members listed below. Submissions from all grade levels are welcome.

PAST WINNERS

World History Association Teaching Prize
Past Winners

2206-2007: Cedric Beidatsch, “Gateway to the Seventeenth Century: Dutch Shipwrecks on the West Australian Coast,” University of West Australia, Perth, Australia

2005-2006: Maggie Favretti, “Bound by a Silver Chain: 1571,” Scarsdale High School, Scarsdale, New York

2004-2005: Monica Bond-Lamberty, “Is There Really Something New Under the Sun?” James Madison Memorial High School, Madison, Wisconsin

2003-2004: Michael A. Marcus, “Steppes to Civilization: Tracing the World History of ‘Global Systems’ Through Textiles and an Interdisciplinary Approach” Berlin   High School, Berlin, Connecticut

2002-2003:
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

2001-2002: Linda Karen Miller, “Japanese Colonialism in Korea 1910-1945” Fairfax High School, Fairfax, Virginia

 

Please write to Jen Laden ( ), Chair of the WHA Teaching Prize Committee, if you are interested in submitting an example of how you link scholarship to teaching in your classroom or look on www.thewha.org.

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, 2008:

Jen Laden – Committee Chair
67 Rockledge Road 1D
Bronxville , New York 10708


Carol Adamson
Gumshornsgatan 7
114 60 Stockholm
SWEDEN


Deborah Johnston
81 Chandler Street ,
Somerville , MA . 02144


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


Jonathan Reynolds
Associate Professor of History
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099


Omar H. Ali
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Towson University
Linthicum Hall 119-K
8000 York Road
Towson , MD 21252-0001

Entries must be e-mailed or postmarked by June 30, 2008

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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 2007-08 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 2007-2008.

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 2007-2008 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 at:  lwangerin@latinschool.org  

OR

• Via hardcopy to the committee 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 Wangerin
The Latin School of Chicago
59 West North Blvd
Chicago, IL 60610

Winning papers are eligible (but not guaranteed) for consideration for publication in the various journals of the World History Association and Phi Alpha Theta.

 

World History Association Student Paper PrizePast Winners

Graduate division: Preston Bakshi, “Decolonizing Medicine: Professionalization and the Pharmaceutical Industry in Independent India,” University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California
Undergraduate division: Rigel A. Behrens, “Jesus Christ, Karl Marx, and the Cold War: The Latin American Church’s Response to a Changing World,” Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky

Graduate division: Jeffer Daykin, “Progressive Pedagogy in Rural China: Tao Xingzhi’s Xiaozhuang Experimental School as an Implementation of John Dewey’s Educational Philosophy,” Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
Undergraduate division: Robert Cole, Power and Performance in Bombay’s Victoria Terminus,” University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

Graduate division: Phillip Sinitiere, "Navigating the Indian Ocean: Exploring the Textures of an African Diaspora," University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Undergraduate division: Kyle Jackson, "Preface to a Brief History of Modern Humans," Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Graduate division: Luke Clossey, “Distant Rites: The Jesuit China Mission and Its Global Ritual Community,” University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California
Undergraduate division: Elizabeth Kamradt, “Colonial Jamestown and Cape Town: A Discussion of Early Changes and Lastinf Outcomes,” Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky

Graduate division: Christopher J. Lee, Stanford University, “Current Concepts in the Red Atlantic: World History as Political Practice in Cape Town, South Africa, 1943-48”
Undergraduate division: Kathleen Vazoulas, Marist College, “Complexity of Relations: Mexico and the United States, 1938-1942”

Graduate division: No Prize Granted
Undergraduate division: Nadine Leon, “The Saint Domingue Revolution: The Impact of the Revolution on Colonial France, 1789-1815,” Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut
Runner-up #1: Laurie Lahey, “Time After Time: China, Europe, and the Fate of the Mechanical Clock,” Rowan College, Glassboro, New Jersey
Runner-up #2: Kirk Lawler, “The Jesuit Incursion into Ming China: Science and Humanism in the Service of God,” North Central College, Naperville, Illinois

Graduate division: Mary Ann R. Gabbert, University of Texas El Paso, for “El Paso, A Sight for Sore Eyes: Medical and Legal Aspects of Syrian Immigration, 1906-1907”
Undergraduate division: Thomas D. Pomenti, Ursinus College, for “Genocidal and Non-Genocidal Cleansings: Why a Perpetrating Regime Will Choose Either Total Murder or Mass Expulsion as Its Means of Population Cleansing”

First year of competition. No prize granted.