You can find links to publications by HCA researchers, and prizes won by them here. PublicationsOur researchers publish their work widely, in monographs, edited collections, peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and encyclopedias among others.Our academic staff are also editors of books and leading journals in our fields of expertise. We are committed to making our publications open access (freely downloadable) wherever possible so that our work can reach broad audiences.To view recent publications and download open access manuscripts authored by our staff, please visit our research outputs page on Edinburgh Research Explorer, the University's research portal (see link below). Edinburgh Research Explorer Prizes awarded to researchers in the School Awards by year 2017AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonRising Star Award - Chancellor's AwardsUniversity of EdinburghDr Mirko CanevaroFor his remarkable body of work produced so far, and the external recognition achieved in the field of Ancient Greek and, in particular, Athenian law-makingThomas Reid Medal - Early Career Prize in Arts, Humanities and Social SciencesRoyal Society of EdinburghDr Mirko CanevaroFor outstanding research work in ancient Greek politics and law2016AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonPROSE Award for Best Textbook in HumanitiesAssociation of American PublishersProf Judy BarringerFor book 'Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece'Gladstone PrizeRoyal Historical SocietyDr Emma HunterFor book 'Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy, and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization'Finalist for Bethwell A. Ogot Book PrizeAfrican Studies AssociationDr Emma HunterFor book 'Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy, and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization'British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Prize for Digital ResourcesBSECSDr Adam BuddFor website 'Circulating Enlightenment', http://www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk2015AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonSenior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish HistoryThe University of EdinburghDr Alasdair RaffeFor book 'The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714'Conington PrizeOxford UniversityDr Benjamin GrayFor book 'Stasis and Stability: Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404-146 BC'2014AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonRunner-up, American Studies Network Book PrizeAmerican Studies NetworkDr Fabian HilfrichFor book 'Debating American Exceptionalism: Empire and Democracy in the Wake of the Spanish-American War'2013AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonNew Generation ThinkerBBC Radio 3 and AHRCDr Christopher Harding Thomas Reid MedalRoyal Society of EdinburghDr Gordon Pentland American Politics Group Richard Neustadt Book PrizePolitical Science AssociationProf Rhodri Jeffries-JonesFor book 'The American Left: Its Impact on Politics and Society since 1900'2012AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonBest ArticleConference on Latin American HistoryDr Camillia Cowling“Funding Freedom, Popularizing Politics: Abolitionism and Local Emancipation Funds in 1880s Brazil,” co-authored with Celso Castilho, Luso-Brazilian Review (University of Wisconsin Press), 47:1 (Spring 2010): 89-120.Beltane Senior Prize for Excellence in Public EngagementRoyal Society of EdinburghProf Tom Devine Joint-third prize in Savings Banks Academic AwardsWorld Savings Banks InstituteDr Eoin McLaughlin Book prize2012 British Association for American StudiesDr Paul QuigleyFor book "Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865"Jefferson Davis PrizeMuseum of the ConfederacyDr Paul QuigleyFor book "Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865"Inaugural Sir Walter Scott Senior Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative ArtsRoyal Society of EdinburghProf Tom Devine Gladstone History Book PrizeRoyal Historical SocietyDr Wendy UgoliniFor book "Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'"Hislibris PrizeHislibrisDr Julius RuizFor book 'El terror rojo' ('The Red Terror')History Book of the YearSaltire SocietyDr Jeremy CrangFor book 'A Military History of Scotland'Templer MedalSociety for Army Historical ResearchDr Jeremy CrangFor book 'A Military History of Scotland'2011AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonJeremiah Dalziel Prize in British HistoryThe University of EdinburghDr Tawny Paul 2010AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonFellowshipRoyal Society of EdinburghProfessor Edgar Peltenburg By-FellowshipChurchill College, CambridgeDr Jeremy Crang Senior Hume Brown Prize for ‘the best first book on any aspect of Scottish history’The University of EdinburghDr Gordon Pentland P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology AwardAmerican Schools of Oriental ResearchProf Edgar Peltenburg 2009AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonVisiting ProfessorEcole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, ParisProfessor Richard Rodger David Berry Prize for 2008Royal Historical SocietyDr Gordon PentlandBetrayed by Infamous Spies - The Commemoration of Scotland's 'Radical War' of 1820Anniversary Fellowship for 2009-10Economic History SocietyMs Amy LloydBritish perceptions of emigration 1870-1914Visiting ScholarshipSt John's College OxfordDr Francesca LocatelliEritrean borderlands with Sudan and Ethiopa 1890 to 1952'Choice' Outstanding Academic Title 2008American Library AssociationDr Martin ChickFor 'Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and The United States since 1945'First winner of the Teaching PrizeEconomic History SocietyDr Martin Chick Winner of the Ratcliff Prize for ‘an important contribution by an individual to the study of Ethnology in Great Britain' Dr Wendy Ugolini 2008AccoladeAwarding BodyRecipientReasonCaird Senior Research FellowNational Maritime MuseumDr Nuala ZahediehJamaica and the Atlantic economy, 1655-1720R D W Connor AwardHistorical Society of North CarolinaDr Mark Newman"Toward 'Blessings of Liberty and Justice': The Catholic Church in North Carolina and Desegregation, 1945 - 1974"British Academy Senior Research FellowshipBritish AcademyProfessor Alvin Jackson Visiting FellowZentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, GermanyDr Pertti Ahonen David Berry Prize for the best published scholarly journal article or essay on a subject dealing with Scottish historyRoyal Historical SocietyDr Gordon Pentland This article was published on 2025-06-24
