J. Russell Major Prize

The J. Russell Major Prize is an annual prize given to a historian by the American Historical Association.

Background

The prize was established in memory of J. Russell Major, a distinguished historian who died on December 12, 1998, at the age of 77. He served as a professor of history at Emory University.[1]

Eligibility

Only the books with a copyright of 2016 are eligible for the 2017 award.[2]

Notable winners

Past winners of the prize include:[3]

  • 2019 - Venus Bivar, Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France
  • 2018 - Peter Sahlins, 1668: The Year of the Animal in France
  • 2017 - Rafe Blaufarb, The Great Demarcation: The French Revolution and the Invention of Modern Property
  • 2016 - Ethan Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France
  • 2015 - Michael Kwass, Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground
  • 2014 - Arlette Jouanna, The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State
  • 2014 - Joseph Bergin, translator, The St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State
  • 2013 - Miranda Spieler, Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
  • 2012 - Malick Ghachem, The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution
  • 2011 - Jeremy Popkin, You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery
  • 2010 - Stuart Carroll, Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe
  • 2009 - Rachel Fuchs, Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France
  • 2008 - Amalia Kessler, A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France
  • 2007 - Martha Hanna, Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War
  • 2006 - Todd Shepard, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France
  • 2005 - Barbara Diefendorf, From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris
  • 2004 - Steven Englund, Napoleon: A Political Life
  • 2003 - Jessica Riskin, Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment
  • 2002 - Robert W. Harms, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade
  • 2001 - Debora Silverman, Van Gough and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art
  • 2000 - Daniel Sherman, The Construction of Memory in Interwar France
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