HERSKOVITS AWARD 2007
The African Studies
Association (ASA) invites publishers to nominate titles for the Herskovits
Award. The ASA presents the Herskovits Award to the author of the most
important scholarly work in African studies published in English during the
preceding year. This annual award is named in honor of Melville J.
Herskovits, one of the ASA's
founders.
The winner of the
Herskovits Award is announced at the ASA Annual Meeting. The formal
presentation of the award with an honorarium of $500 is made at the Annual
Meeting Awards Ceremony. A list of the finalists for the Award is published in
the Annual Meeting program and in the ASA News.
Past winners have included
the most prominent names in African Studies: Anthony
Appiah, Keletso
Atkins, Paul
and Laura Bohannan,
Allen Isaacman,
Lansiné Kaba,
Rene Lemarchand,
Joseph C.
Miller, Henrietta
L. Moore,
V.Y. Mudimbe,
Elliott P.
Skinner, and Jan Vansina.
The 2006 winner was J. Lorand
Matory for “Black
Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the
Afro-Brazilian Candomble.”
Nominations for the
Herskovits Award are made directly by publishers who may nominate as many
separate titles in a given year as they desire. All nominations must meet the
following criteria:
- Nominations must be original non-fiction scholarly
works published in English in 2006 and distributed in the United States.
- Only books copyrighted in 2006 are eligible for the
2007 Herskovits Award.
- The subject matter must significantly deal with Africa
and/or related areas (Cape Verde,
Madagascar, or Indian Ocean Islands off the East African
coast).
Works that
are not eligible include collections and compilations, proceedings of symposia,
new editions of previously published books, bibliographies, and dictionaries.
Please send your
nominations postmarked on or before May 1, 2007.
Please send a form or
letter indicating the publisher, address, email address, telephone, fax, the
titles nominated, and one copy of each title to each of the following:
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
(07)
UNDP
Africa Bureau DC1-2448
1 UN Plaza
New York, NY
10017
T: 212-906-5911
georges.nzongola-ntalaja@undp.org
John Peel (07)
Dept. of Anthropology
School of Oriental
and African Studies
Russell Square
London WC1HOXG, England
T: +(44) (20) 7898 4407
Jp2@soas.ac.uk
Diana Wylie, (08)
African Studies Center
Boston University
270 Bay State Road
Boston, MA 02115
T: 617-353-6645
F: 617-353-4975
dwylie@bu.edu
Please send a form or
letter indicating the publisher, address, email address, telephone, fax, the
titles nominated, and two copies of
each title to the following:
Herskovits Award c/o Kristina
Carle
African Studies Association
Rutgers University, Douglass Campus
132 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1400 USA
T: 732-932-8173 x16
F: 732-932-3394
asapub@rci.rutgers.edu
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