| Herskovits Award 2010 | |
The African Studies Association (ASA) invites publishers to nominate titles for the Herskovits Award. The ASA presents the Herskovits Award to the author of the most important scholarly work in African studies published in English during the preceding year. This annual award is named in honor of Melville J. Herskovits, one of the ASA's founders. Since 2008, the Herskovits Award has been made possible with generous funding from the Kennell A. Jackson, Jr. bequest. The winner of the Herskovits Award is announced at the ASA Annual Meeting. The formal presentation of the award with an honorarium of $500 is made at the Annual Meeting Awards Ceremony. A list of the finalists for the Award is published in the Annual Meeting program and in the ASA News. Past winners have included the most prominent names in African Studies: Anthony Appiah, Keletso Atkins, Paul and Laura Bohannan, Allen Isaacman, Lansiné Kaba, Rene Lemarchand, Joseph C. Miller, Henrietta L. Moore, V.Y. Mudimbe, Elliott P. Skinner, and Jan Vansina. The 2008 co-winners were Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton for "Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660," and Parker Shipton for "The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa." Nominations for the Herskovits Award are made directly by publishers who may nominate as many separate titles in a given year as they desire. All nominations must meet the following criteria:
Works that are not eligible include collections and compilations, proceedings of symposia, new editions of previously published books, bibliographies, and dictionaries. Nominations must be postmarked on or before May 1, 2010. To nominate a publication, send a letter indicating the publisher you represent, address, email address, telephone, fax, the title(s) nominated, and one copy of each title to each of the following: Adam Ashforth (10) Barbara Cooper (11) Toyin Falola, Chair (10) Please note that there are currently two vacancies on the Herskovits Prize Committee. Once members are selected for these two vacancies (estimated March 2010) their information will be posted to this site. Also, please send a form or letter indicating the publisher, address, email address, telephone, fax, and the title(s) of the nominated publication(s) to the following address: Herskovits Award | |
