Outstanding Book Award
Call for Submissions:
This award recognizes the most outstanding book on the history of education published during the previous year. This includes work on schooling as well as educational institutions and processes more broadly, concerning the U.S. and/or other locations. Only books copyrighted in 2021 are eligible for consideration for the 2022 prize.
Criteria used to evaluate the books include:
- Originality of the study;
- Thoroughness of the research/scholarship;
- Contributions to the field;
- Stylistic fluidity and narrative quality; and
- Potential for lasting impact on the history of education.
Please ask your publisher to nominate and send your book to the committee for consideration. The committee will also accept e-books to accommodate authors and presses affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to be considered, review copies of your book must be received by all members of the committee at the addresses listed below no later than May 16, 2022.
2022 Committee Members
Richard Benson (chair)
Education Department, Spelman College
350 Spelman Lane, SW – Box 63
Atlanta, GA 30314
Lucy E. Bailey, PhD
215 Willard Hall
Stillwater, OK 74074
Deirdre Dougherty
2 East South Street
Galesburg, IL 61401
Diana D’Amico Pawlewicz
Education Room 200
231 Centennial Drive Stop 7189
Grand Forks, ND 58202-7189
Tondra Loder-Jackson
EEC 306-C
The University of Alabama at Birmingham
1720 2ND AVE S
Birmingham, AL 35294-4460