ASWAD 2023 Book and Article Prizes

ASWAD Outstanding First Book Prize

The Outstanding First Book Prize annually honors an outstanding single-authored book focused on Africa and/or the African diaspora submitted by or on behalf of a scholar, activist, and/or artist who has not previously published a single-authored monograph.

Finalists:
Adriana Chira, Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race Beyond Cuba’s Plantations
Joan Flores-Villalobos, The Silver Women: How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal
Dannelle Gutarra Cordero, She is Weeping: An Intellectual History of Racialized Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World

P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize

The P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize annually acknowledges books published in English submitted by or on behalf of a scholar, activist, and/or artist who has at least one previous single-authored publication.

Finalists:
Leslie Alexander, Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States
Anadelia A. Romo, Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia
Ryan Skinner, Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country

Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize

The Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize annually honors an outstanding single-authored book focused on gender and sexuality in Africa and/or the African diaspora submitted by or on behalf of a scholar, activist, and/or artist.

Finalists:
Wanda A. Hendricks, The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women’s Global Activism During Jim Crow & Apartheid
Danielle Terrazas-Williams, The Capital of Free Women: Race, Legitimacy, and Liberty in Colonial Mexico
Miriam Thaggert, Riding Jane Crow: African American Women on the American Railroad

Outstanding Article Prize

The Article Prize annually honors an outstanding peer-reviewed article focused on Africa and/or the African diaspora.

Finalists:
Oscar de la Torre, "The Well That Wept Blood Ghostlore, Haunted Waterscapes,and the Politics of Quilombo Blackness in Amazonia (Brazil)," The American Historical Review 127, no. 4 (2023): 1635-58.
Debora Heard, "The Barbarians at the Gate: The Early Historiographic Battle to Define the Role of Kush in World History," Journal of Ancient Egyptian Connections 35 (2022):
Ayodeji Ogunnaike, "The Transcontinental Genealogy of the Afro-Brazilian Mosque," MAVCOR journal 6, no, 2 (2022)