Prizes and Awards: Scholarship
Albert J. Beveridge Award (American Historical Association)
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Allan Nevins Prize (Society of American Historians)
Brianna Nofil
Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association for Asian Studies
Chitralekha Zutshi, 2016, for Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination (Honorable Mention)
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora Outstanding First Book Prize
Chinua Thelwell, Finalist 2021 for Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond
Award for Excellence in Research (New York State Archives)
Carol Sheriff, 1996, for The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
Bancroft Prize (Columbia University)
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize
Hannah Rosen, 2009, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
Bolton-Johnson Prize of the Conference on Latin American History for the best book in English on any significant aspect of Latin American History
Richard Turits, 2004, Foundations of Despotism
Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award, Organization of American Historians
Hannah Rosen, 2010, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
Class of 1964 Distinguished Associate Professor (W&M)
Leisa Meyer, 2007-2010
Community Studies Professor of AMST, History, and GSWS (W&M)
Leisa Meyer
Cyprian Davis, O.S.B. Prize (Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and the American Cathollic Historical Association)
Julia Gaffield, for book-in-progress The Abandoned Faithful
David Pinkney Prize (Society for French Historical Studies)
Ron Schechter, 2003, for Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
Disability History Association, Journal article/book chapter Award
Maria Galmarini, 2018, for “Psychiatry, Violence, and the Soviet Project of Transformation: A Micro-History of the Perm' Psycho-Neurological School Sanatorium," Slavic Review 77:2 (Summer 2018), 307-332
Dixon Ryan Fox Prize (New York State Historical Association)
Carol Sheriff, 1996, for The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
Dorothea S. Clarke and Phillip Zwickler Fellow, Human Sexuality Collection and Feminism and Legal Theory Project (Cornell University)
Leisa Meyer, 2002
Emil and Kathleen Sick Book-Lecture Series (University of Washington Press)
Andy Fisher, 2008, for Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Edward Coco Research Fellowship (William & Mary)
Fabricio Prado, 2018-2019
Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Mellon Fellowship
Nicholas Popper, 2017-2018
Forum for the History of Science in America Book Award
Chandos Brown, 1990, for Benjamin Silliman: A Life in the Young Republic
Georgia Historical Society, Malcom and Muriel Bell Book Award for Best Book in Georgia History
Joshua Piker, 2005 for Okfuskee
H.L. Mitchell Book Award, Southern Historical Association
Adrienne Petty, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War.
James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize of the Conference on Latin American History for the best article in Hispanic American Historical Review
Richard Turits, 2003, “A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed”
Jefferson Award (W&M)
Leisa D. Meyer
John Edwin Fagg Prize of the American Historical Association for the best book on the history of Spain, Portugal, or Latin America
Richard Turits, 2003, Foundations of Despotism
John McClelland Award (Washington State Historical Society)
Andy Fisher, 2008, "Invasion of the Boardheads"
John T. Hubbell Prize (Civil War History)
Carol Sheriff, 2013, “Virginia’s Embattled Textbooks: Lessons Learned (And Not) from the Centennial Era”
La coróníca International Book Award for 2018
Philip Daileader, 2016, Saint Vincent Ferrer, His World and Life: Religion and Society in Late Medieval Europe
Leo Gershoy Award (American Historical Association)
Ron Schechter, 2004, for Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
Library of Virginia Award for Nonfiction
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society
Julia Gaffield, for Haitian Connections
Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award (Association for Iranian Studies)
Peyman Jafari, 2020
Outstanding Academic Titles (Choice)
Mel Ely, 2005, Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
LuAnn Homza, 2006, Religious Authority in the Spanish Resistance
Betsy Konefal, 2011, For Every Indio Who Falls: A History of Maya Activism in Guatemala, 1960-1990
Richard Turits, 2020, Freedom Roots
Richard Turits, 2004, Foundations of Depotism
Paul E. Buchanan Award for Excellence in Field Work, Interpretation, and Public Service, Vernacular Architecture Forum
Leisa Meyer, 2018 for “Introduction to LGBTQ History” (with Helis Sikk), ed. Megan Springate, LGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (National Park Foundation and National Parks Service, 2016):3-01–3-38.
Plumeri Award (W&M)
Frederick Corney
Philip Daileader
Lu Ann Homza
Hiroshi Kitamura
Ronald Schechter
Chitralekha Zutshi
Betsy Konefal
Carol Sheriff
Robert G. Athearn Prize from the Western History Association (best book on the 20th-century American West in 2011-12)
Andrew Fisher, Shadow Tribe: The Making of Columbia River Indian Identity
Shimizu Hiroshi Book Award from the Japanese Association for American Studies
Hiroshi Kitamura for Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize
Hiroshi Kitamura, 2012, Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan
Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society 2020 Book Prize
Ayfer Karakaya-Stump, The Kizilbash/Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia: Sufism, Politics and Community
Tibesar Prize Conference of Latin American History
Fabricio Prado, Honorary Mention, 2016
Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award, Agricultural History Society
Adrienne Petty, Standing Their Ground: Small Farmers in North Carolina Since the Civil War.
Translation prize of the Latin American Studies Association's Haiti/Dominican Republic Section
Richard Turits, 2022, Terreurs de frontière
United States Commission on Military History (USCMH)
Fabricio Prado, 2012
Wesley-Logan Prize (American Historical Association/Association for the Study of African American Life and History)
Mel Ely, 2005, for Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War
Willie Lee Rose Prize, Southern Association of Women Historians
Hannah Rosen, 2010, Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South
