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Recent Awards in Business and Economic History

At late summer and fall annual meetings, a number of prizes have recently been awarded to business and economic historians:

Noam Maggor was awarded the 2018 William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize of the American Society of Legal Historians (ASLH) for his American Historical Review article "'To Coddle & Caress These Great Capitalists': Eastern Money, Frontier Populism, and the Politics of Market-Making in the American West."

Fahad Ahmad Bishara received the 2018 ASLH Peter Gonville Stein book award for A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press).

Paul Cheney won the Gilbert Chinard Prize of the Society of French Historical Studies, for the best book in the comparative history of France and the Americas, for Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint Domingue (University of Chicago Press).

Keri Leigh Merritt won two prizes for her book Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South (Cambridge University Press): the 2018 Bennett Wall Award of the Southern History Association, and the Social Science History Association 2018 President's Book Award.

Marie Hicks is the recipient of the 2018 British Archives Council's Wadsworth Prize for her book Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing (MIT Press). She was also awarded the Sally Hacker Prize by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

Other SHOT recipients:
Joy Parr was awarded the SHOT Leonardo da Vinci medal for lifelong achievement.
Edward Jones-Imhotep received the Sidney M. Edelstein Prize for The Unreliable Nation: Hostile Nature and Technological Failure in the Cold War (MIT Press).
American Historian Association 2018 prizes of interest:
Erika Rappaport won the Jerry Bentley Prize in world history for A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World (Princeton University Press).
Kenda Mutongi received the Martin A. Klein Prize in African history for Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi (University of Chicago Press).
Ghassan Moazzin was awarded the Coleman Prize of the Business History Association for his dissertation "Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885-1919)."

Valeria Giacomin won the European Business History Association 2018 prize for the best dissertation for her work "Contextualizing the Cluster – Palm Oil in Southeast Asia in Global Perspective (1880s-1970s)."

Among several recipients of 2018 Economic History Association awards:
Howard Bodenhorn received the Jonathan Hughes Prize recognizing excellence in teaching economic history.
Jeremy Atack was awarded the inaugural Engerman-Goldin Prize for creating, compiling, and sharing data and information with scholars.
Leah Platt Boustan, for Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press), and Douglas Irwin, for Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press), shared the 2018 Alice Hanson Jones Prize for the outstanding book in North American economic history.
At the 2018 Economic and Business History Society meeting, awards were presented to
Louis Galambos: the James Soltow Award for the best paper in Essays in Economic & Business History for "The Entrepreneurial Culture and the Mysteries of Economic Development."
Amanda Gregg and Steven Nafziger: the 2018 Fred Bateman Award for the best paper at the annual EBHS Conference, "The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia."
Stephanie Seketa: the Lynne Doti Award for the best paper by a graduate student at the annual EBHS Conference for "Defining and Defending Valid Citizenship during War: Jewish Immigrant Businesses in World War I England."

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