Outstanding Scholarship

Each year, the ASEH awards five prizes for outstanding scholarship in the field of environmental history. The instructions for submitting your work for consideration for each prize are listed below.

Publication Awards

George Perkins Marsh Prize 
for best book in environmental history

The prize committee will evaluate published books that appear between November 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023. 

Deadline for submissions: November 20, 2023.

Three hard copies are required - and anyone can submit a book (authors and publishers). Please send one copy of each book submission to each committee member:

Gregory Dehler
Regis University
3333 Regis Blvd.
Claver Hall, G-6
Denver, CO 80221

Elizabeth Bishop

Department of History

Texas State University

601 University Drive

Taylor Murphy Building, 216

San Marcos, TX 78666 

Brian McCammack

2023 W. Chase Ave.

Chicago, IL 60645

Alice Hamilton Prize
for best article outside journal Environmental History

Eligibility
Articles published between November 1, 2022 and October 31, 2023.

Deadline: November 20, 2023.

Instructions
Please submit a pdf file of the published article that clearly indicates the author's name, the article title, the name of the journal, the issue number, and the date of publication through THIS FORM.

Leopold-Hidy Prize 
for best article in journal Environmental History 
(with Forest History Society)

Articles that appear in our journal, Environmental History, are automatically considered by our journal's editorial board, and there is no need to submit entries for the Leopold-Hidy Prize.

Awards for Unpublished Research