George Perkins Marsh Prize 

for best book in environmental history

Winner:

Jamie Kreiner, Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020)

Finalists:

 David Fedman, Seeds of Control: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020)

  Grace Karskens, People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2020)

Rachel Carson Prize 

for best dissertation in environmental history

Geoffrey Wallace, "The History and Geography of Beeswax Extraction in the Northern Maya Lowlands, 1540-1700,” McGill University

Congratulations to all of the winners of ASEH's 2021 awards and prizes!

ASEH thanks all of the selection committees for their hard work.

Join us for Environmental History Week in April to celebrate!