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, 2021 and October 31, 2022. Deadline for submission: November 20, 2022.

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

James Rice
Department of History
Tufts University
6 The Green, East Hall 010
Medford, MA 02155

Elizabeth Bishop
Department of History
Texas State University-San Marcos
601 University Drive
Taylor Murphy Building, 216
San Marcos, TX 78666 

Gregory  Dehler
Regis University3333 Regis Blvd.Claver Hall, G-6
Denver, CO 80221

Hamilton Prize
for best article outside journal Environmental History

Eligibility
Articles published between November 1, 2021 and October 31, 2022.

Deadline: November 20, 2022.

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Awards for Unpublished Research