Herskovitz Prize
Encyclopedia
The Herskovits Prize is an annual award given by the African Studies Association
to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa
published in English
in the previous year and distributed in the United States
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Winners of the Herskovits Award
African Studies Association
The African Studies Association is an association of scholars and professionals in the United States and Canada with an interest in the continent of Africa. Started in 1957, the ASA is the leading organization of African Studies in North America. The associations headquarters are Rutgers...
to the best scholarly work (including translations) on Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
published in English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
in the previous year and distributed in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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Winners of the Herskovits Award
- 1965 – Ruth Schachter Morganthau for Political Parties in French-Speaking West Africa
- 1966 – Leo KuperLeo KuperLeo Kuper was a writer and philosopher. He was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family in South Africa. He trained as a lawyer before becoming a sociologist specialising in the study of genocide....
for An African Bourgeoisie - 1967 – Jan VansinaJan VansinaJan Vansina is a historian and anthropologist specializing in Africa. He is the foremost authority on the history of the peoples of Central Africa.-Biography:...
for Kingdoms of the Savanna - 1968 – Herbert Weiss for Political Protest in the Congo
- 1969 – Paul J. BohannanPaul J. BohannanPaul James Bohannan was an American anthropologist known for his research on the Tiv of Nigeria, spheres of exchange and divorce in the United States.-Early life and education:...
, Laura Bohannan for Tiv economy - 1970 – Stanlake Samkange for Origins of Rhodesia
- 1971 – Rene LemarchandRené LemarchandRené Lemarchand is a French political scientist who is known for his research on ethnic conflict and genocide in Rwanda, Burundi and Darfur. Publishing in both English and French, he is particularly known for his work on the concept of clientism. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of...
for Rwanda and Burundi - 1972 – Francis DengFrancis DengOn 29 May 2007, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the appointment of Dr. Francis M. Deng of the Sudan as the new Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, a position he holds at the level of Under-Secretary General....
for Tradition and Modernization - 1973 – Allen F. Isaacman for Mozambique The Africanization of a European Institution
- 1974 – John N. Paden for Religion and Political Culture in Kano
- 1975 – Elliott SkinnerElliott SkinnerElliott Percival Skinner was an American anthropologist and United States Ambassador to Republic of Upper Volta....
for African Urban Life - 1975 – Lansine Kaba for Wahhabiyya: Islamic Reform and Politics in French West Africa
- 1976 – Ivor WilksIvor WilksIvor G. Wilks is a noted British Africanist and historian, with a specialism in Ghana.Wilks is an authority on the Ashanti Empire in Ghana. He has also written on Chartism in Wales, and the working class movement in the nineteenth century. His work examines the nature of power and leadership, and...
for Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order - 1977 – Crawford YoungCrawford YoungCrawford Young is an American lutenist, music teacher, and director of the Ferrara Ensemble and Shield of Harmony, both early music groups.Robert Crawford Young graduated in 1976 from New England Conservatory in Boston, where he played classical guitar, lute and tenor banjo...
for Politics Cultural Pluralism - 1978 – William Y. Adams for Nubia: Corridor to Africa
- 1979 – Hoyt Alverson for Mind in the Heart of Darkness: Value and Self-Identity among the Tswana of Southern Africa
- 1980 – Margaret Strobel for Muslim Women in Mombasa
- 1980 – Richard B. Lee for The Dobe Ju/'Hoansi
- 1981 – Gavin KitchingGavin KitchingGavin Kitching is a British author and professor of social sciences and international relations at the University of New South Wales, where he has taught since 1991...
for Class and Economic Change in Kenya: The Making of an African Petite-Bourgeoisie - 1981 – Gwyn Prins for The Hidden Hippopotamus: Reappraisal in African History: The Early Colonial Experience in Western Zambia
- 1982 – Frederick CooperFrederick CooperFrederick Cooper is an American historian who specializes in colonialization, decolonialization and African history. Cooper received his Ph.D from Yale University in 1974 and is currently professor of history at New York University....
for From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor & Agriculture in Zanzibar & Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925 - 1982 – Sylvia ScribnerSylvia ScribnerSylvia Scribner was an American psychologist and educational researcher who focused on the role of culture in literacy and learning. Her parents were Gussie and Harry Scribner, and Sylvia also had a sister, Shirley.-Biographical Outline:...
, Michael Cole for The Psychology of Literacy - 1983 – James W Fernandez for Bwiti: An ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa
- 1984 – J. D. Y. Peel for Ijeshas and Nigerians: The Incorporation of a Yoruba Kingdom, 1890s-1970s
- 1984 – Paulin Hountondji for African Philosophy
- 1985 – Claire C. Robertson for Sharing the Same Bowl: A Socioeconomic History of Women and Class in Accra, Ghana
- 1986 – Sara Berry for Fathers Work for Their Sons: Accumulation, Mobility, and Class Formation in an Extended Yoruba Community
- 1987 – Paul M. Lubeck for Islam and Urban Labor in Northern Nigeria: The Making of a Muslim Working Class
- 1988 – John Iliffe for The African Poor: A History
- 1989 – Joseph Calder Miller for Way Of Death: Merchant Capitalism And The Angolan Slave Trade, 1730-1830
- 1989 – V. Y. MudimbeV. Y. MudimbeV.Y. Mudimbe is a philosopher, professor, and author of books and articles about African culture, poems, and novels. Mudimbe was a former assistant of Michel Foucault. He was born in the Belgian Congo, which became Zaire and is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
for The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge - 1990 – Edwin N. Wilmsen for Land Filled with Flies: A Political Economy of the Kalahari
- 1991 – Johannes Fabian for Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations Through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire
- 1991 – Luise White for The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi
- 1992 – Myron Echenberg for Colonial Conscripts: The Tirailleurs Senegalais in French West Africa, 1857-1960
- 1993 – Kwame Anthony AppiahKwame Anthony AppiahKwame Anthony Appiah is a Ghanaian-British-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and novelist whose interests include political and moral theory, the philosophy of language and mind, and African intellectual history. Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up in Ghana and earned a Ph.D. at Cambridge...
for In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture - 1994 – Keletso E. Atkins for The Moon is Dead! Give Us Our Money!: The Cultural Origins of an African Work Ethic, atal, South Africa, 1843-1900
- 1995 – Megan Vaughan, Henrietta L. Moore for Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890-1990
- 1996 – Jonathon Glassman for Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebellion, & Popular Consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888
- 1997 – Mahmood MamdaniMahmood MamdaniMahmood Mamdani is an academic, author and political commentator. He is a Professor and Director of the at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University, New York. He grew up in Uganda and acquired his B.A from the University of...
for Citizen and Subject - 1997 – T.O. Beidelman for Moral Imagination in Kaguru Modes of Thought
- 1998 – Susan Mullin Vogel for Baule: African Art, Western Eyes
- 1999 – Peter Uvin for Aiding Violence: The Development Enterprise in Rwanda
- 2000 – Nancy Rose Hunt for A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
- 2001 – J. D. Y. Peel for Religious Encounter and the Making of the Yoruba
- 2001 – Karin Barber for The Generation of Plays: Yoruba Popular Life in Theater
- 2002 – Diana Wylie for Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa
- 2002 – Judith A. Carney for Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas
- 2003 – Joseph E. Inikori for Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development
- 2004 – Allen F. Roberts, Mary Nooter Roberts, Gassia Armenian, Ousmane Gueye for A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
- 2005 – Adam Ashforth for Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa
- 2005 – Jan VansinaJan VansinaJan Vansina is a historian and anthropologist specializing in Africa. He is the foremost authority on the history of the peoples of Central Africa.-Biography:...
for How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 - 2006 – J. Lorand MatoryJ. Lorand MatoryJ. Lorand Matory is an American academic and Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and African and African American Studies at Duke University. Matory grew up in Washington, D.C. and attended Harvard College. He received his Ph.D...
for Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble - 2007 – Barbara MacGowan Cooper for Evangelical Christians in the Muslim Sahel
- 2008 - Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton, Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
- 2008 - Parker Shipton, The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa