The Ellis W. Hawley Prize is an annual book award by the Organization of American Historians for the best historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the American Civil War to the present. The prize honors Ellis W. Hawley, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Iowa, for his outstanding work in these subjects The Ellis W. Hawley Prize was first approved at the annual business meeting of the Organization of American Historians on April 1, 1995, and first awarded in 1997. The awarding committee is composed of three members appointed annually by the President of the Organization of American Historians. The winner receives five hundred dollars. (last retrieved 2/14/2011)
Year Winner Affiliation Title1997Gareth Davieshttp://www.history.ox.ac.uk/staff/postholder/davies_g.htm (last retrieved 2/14/2011)Oxford University (UK)From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism1998Walter LaFeberCornell UniversityThe Clash: A History of U.S.–Japan Relations1999Daniel T. RodgersPrinceton UniversityAtlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age2000Julian E. Zelizerhttp://www.princeton.edu/history/people/data/j/jzelizer/CV.pdf (last retrieved 2/14/2011)State University of New York at AlbanyTaxing America: Wilbur Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–19752001Stephen Kantrowitzhttp://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/kantrowitz.htm (last retrieved 2/14/2011)University of Wisconsin–MadisonBen Tillman and the Reconstruction of White America2002David W. BlightAmherst CollegeRace and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory2003Steven W. Usselman http://www.iac.gatech.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty/bio/usselman (last retrieved 2/14/2011)Georgia Institute of Technology Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–19202004Jennifer Kleinhttp://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/klein.html (last retrieved 2/14/2011)Yale University For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State2005Alison Isenberghttp://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/56-professors/164-isenberg-alison (last retrieved 2/14/2011)Rutgers UniversityDowntown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It2006Meg Jacobshttp://web.mit.edu/mjacobs/www/index.html (last retrieved 2/14/2011)Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America2007Marie Gottschalkhttp://www.polisci.upenn.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=73 (last retrieved 2/14/2011)University of Pennsylvania The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America2008coWendy L. Wallhttp://www2.binghamton.edu/history/people/faculty/wendy-wall.html (last retrieved 2/14/2011)Colgate University Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement 2008coDavid M. P. Freund (last retrieved 2/14/2011)University of Maryland, College Park Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America2009Peggy PascoeUniversity of Oregon What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America2010Margot Canadayhttp://www.princeton.edu/history/people/data/m/mcanaday/CV.pdf (last retrieved 2/14/2011)Princeton University The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America2011Nick CullatherIndiana University The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia2012Darren DochukPurdue University From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism2013Jonathan LevyPrinceton UniversityFreaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America2014Kate BrownUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore CountyPlutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters2015Alan McPhersonUniversity of OklahomaThe Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations2016Gary GerstleUniversity of CambridgeLiberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present2017Sam LebovicGeorge Mason UniversityFree Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America2018Richard WhiteStanford UniversityThe Republic for Which It Stands2019Elizabeth Lew-WilliamsPrinceton UniversityThe Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America2020Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorPrinceton UniversityRace for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership2021Lila Corwin BermanTemple UniversityThe American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution2022Destin JenkinsStanford UniversityThe Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City2024Dylan C. PenningrothUniversity of California, BerkeleyBefore the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights2025Brianna NofilCollege of William & MaryThe Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration2026Brendan A. Shanahan,Yale UniversityDisparate Regimes: Nativist Politics, Alienage Law, and Citizenship Rights in the United States, 1865–1965
See also
List of history awards
References
External links OAH Source