Ellis W. Hawley Prize

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{{cite web |title=Ellis W. Hawley Prize |work=The Organization of American Historians: Programs & Resources: OAH Awards and Prizes |publisher=The Organization of American Historians |url=http://www.oah.org/programs/awards/ellis-w-hawley-prize/ |accessdate=2013-11-03}} 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.oah.org/about/committees/awards.html |title=Award and Prize Committees |accessdate=2010-11-06 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101106133600/http://www.oah.org/about/committees/awards.html |archivedate=2010-11-06 }} (last retrieved 2/14/2011)

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! Year

! Winner

! Affiliation

! Title

1997

|Gareth 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 Liberalism

1998

|Walter LaFeber

|Cornell University

|The Clash: A History of U.S.–Japan Relations

1999

|Daniel T. Rodgers

|Princeton University

|Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age

2000

|Julian E. Zelizer

http://www.princeton.edu/history/people/data/j/jzelizer/CV.pdf (last retrieved 2/14/2011)

|State University of New York at Albany

|Taxing America: Wilbur Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975

2001

|Stephen Kantrowitzhttp://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/kantrowitz.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720114501/http://history.wisc.edu/people/faculty/kantrowitz.htm |date=2011-07-20 }} (last retrieved 2/14/2011)

|University of Wisconsin–Madison

|Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White America

2002

|David W. Blight

|Amherst College

|Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory

2003

|Steven 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, 1840–1920

2004

|Jennifer Kleinhttp://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/klein.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123072555/http://www.yale.edu/history/faculty/klein.html |date=2010-11-23 }} (last retrieved 2/14/2011)

|Yale University

| For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State

2005

|Alison Isenberghttp://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/56-professors/164-isenberg-alison {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110105064805/http://history.rutgers.edu/faculty-directory/56-professors/164-isenberg-alison |date=2011-01-05 }} (last retrieved 2/14/2011)

|Rutgers University

|Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It

2006

|Meg Jacobshttp://web.mit.edu/mjacobs/www/index.html (last retrieved 2/14/2011)

|Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America

2007

|Marie Gottschalk

http://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 America

2008co

|Wendy L. Wallhttp://www2.binghamton.edu/history/people/faculty/wendy-wall.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925151104/http://www2.binghamton.edu/history/people/faculty/wendy-wall.html |date=2010-09-25 }} (last retrieved 2/14/2011)

|Colgate University

| Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement

2008co

|David M. P. Freund[https://archive.today/20130416034335/http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=sf.profile&person_id=633016] (last retrieved 2/14/2011)

|University of Maryland, College Park

| Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America

2009

|Peggy Pascoe

|University of Oregon

| What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America

2010

|Margot 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 America

2011

|Nick Cullather{{Cite web|url=http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/17789.html|title = IU historian receives Hawley Prize for Cold War book focusing on poverty, food politics: IU News Room: Indiana University}}

|Indiana University

| The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia

2012

|Darren Dochuk{{Cite web |url=http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/faculty/2012/story-print-deploy-layout_1_19543_19543.html |title=Purdue Newsroom - Appointments, honors and activities |access-date=2012-11-01 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121215012522/http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/faculty/2012/story-print-deploy-layout_1_19543_19543.html |archive-date=2012-12-15 |url-status=dead}}

|Purdue University

| From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism

2013

|Jonathan Levy

|Princeton University

|Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America

2014

|Kate Brown

|University of Maryland, Baltimore County

|Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

2015

|Alan McPherson

|University of Oklahoma

|The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations

2016

|Gary Gerstle

|University of Cambridge

|Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present

2017

|Sam Lebovic

|George Mason University

|Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America

2018

|Richard White

|Stanford University

|The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896

2019

|Elizabeth Lew-Williams

|Princeton University

|The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America

2020

|Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

|Princeton University

|Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership

2021

|Lila Corwin Berman

|Temple University

|The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution

2022

|Destin Jenkins

|Stanford University

|The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City

2024

|Dylan C. Penningroth

|University of California, Berkeley

|Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights

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