Prize
ICHTH–INTH Book Prize for the History and Theory of Historiography: 2024 ICHTH–INTH BEST BOOK AND BEST FIRST BOOK: Call closed on 31 December 2023.
Update 31 March 2024: The awards will be presented on Thursday 24 May 2024 at the INTH Conference in Lisbon.
Update 30 March 2024: The Prize Committee will announce a shortlist of selected candidates for the Best Book prize on 1 May 2024.
Update 2 January 2024: The Prize Committee (coming from Belgium, Estonia, Mexico and South Africa) has started its work to evaluate all submissions. A shortlist of selected candidates will be determined by 20 April 2024. An announcement and celebration of the Prize will be held on 21–24 May 2024 at the INTH conference in Lisbon. Storia della Storiografia will publish two Fora dedicated to the Prize winners: Forum for the Best First Book and Forum for the Best Book. Both Fora will consist of a summary of the winning book by the laureate, three review essays, and a rejoinder by the laureate.
PREVIOUS LAUREATES
In 2013, the ICHTH established a Prize to honor a scholar whose recent work (book or doctoral dissertation) significantly contributed to the fields of history and theory of historiography.
2024 ICHTH – INTH Best Book Prize
2024 ICHTH – INTH Best First Book Prize
2022 ICHTH – INTH Book Prize
- Hans Ruin, Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Policies and the Roots of Historical Consciousness (Stanford University Press, 2018).
- Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, History in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Theory for the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2019).
2018 ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize
- Ritwik Bhattacharyya, Homo Ahistoricus: Disavowal of History in Colonial South Asian Writing [award].
- Alexander Maar, Cause, Chance, Determinism and Counterfactuals in History [honorable mention].
2016 ICHTH Book Prize
2013 ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize