2024 prize recipient

Jian Gao, “Crossing Borders, Creating Networks: Chinese Mexicans’ Journeys of Longing and Belonging, 1900s-1950s,” University of Texas at Austin, 2023.

 

2023 prize recipient

Mejgan Massoumi, "The Sounds of Kabul: Radio and the Politics of Popular Culture in Modern Afghanistan, 1960-79," Stanford University, 2021.

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2022 prize recipient

Carl Kubler, “Barbarians on the Shore: Global Trade and Everyday Life on the South China Coast, 1780 – 1860," University of Chicago, 2021.

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2022 honorable mention

Ellen Nye, “Empires of Obligation: Law, Money, and Debt between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1670 – 1720," Yale University, 2021.

 

2021 prize recipient

Kristyl Obispado, “The Pacific Sailors: Global workers at and on the edge of the Spanish empire (1580s – 1640s),” El Colegio de México, 2020.

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2021 honorable mentions

Jake Subryan Richards, “Liberated Africans and Law in the South Atlantic, c. 1839 – 1871,” University of Cambridge, 2020.

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Nicholas Roberts, A Sea of Wealth: Sayyid Sa’id bin Sultan, His Omani Empire, and the Making of An Oceanic Marketplace,” University of Notre Dame, 2021.

 

2020 prize recipient

Erik Glowark, “The Christianization of Kyushu: A World-Historical Interpretation of the Jesuit Mission to Japan, 1549-1650,” University of Oregon, 2019.

 

2019 prize recipient

Kristen Alff, “The Business of Property: Levantine Joint-stock Companies, Land, Law, and Capitalist Development Around the Mediterranean, 1850-1925,” Stanford University, 2019.

 

2018 prize recipient

Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, “Imperial Refuge: Resettlement of Muslims from Russia in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1914,” Stanford University, 2018.

 

2017 prize recipient

Sara Silverstein, “Doctors as Diplomats: The Origins of Universal Healthcare in International Society,” Yale University, 2016.

 

2016 prize recipient

Barry McCarron, “The Global Irish and Chinese: Migration, Exclusion, and Foreign Relations among Empires, 1784–1904,” Georgetown University, 2016

 

2016 honorable mentions

Kathryn Hain, “The Slave Trade of European Women to the Middle East and Asia from Antiquity to the Ninth Century,” University of Utah, 2015.

 

Isaiah Lorado Wilner, “Raven Cried for Me: Narratives of Transformation on the Northwest Coast of America,” Yale University, 2016.

 

2015 prize recipient

Patrick Kelly, “Sovereignty and Salvation: Transnational Human Rights Activism in the Americas in the Long 1970s,” University of Chicago, 2014.

 

2015 honorable mention

Phillip Guingona, “Crafted Links and Accidental Connections of Empire: A History of Early Twentieth-Century Sino-Philippine Interaction,” University of Buffalo,

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2014 prize recipient

Bryce Beemer, “The Creole City in Southeast Asia: Slave Gathering Warfare and Culture Exchange in Burma, Thailand, and Manipur, 1752–1885,” University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2013.

 

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