A list of the prizes awarded to researchers in the School. 2017 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason Rising Star Award - Chancellor's Awards University of Edinburgh Dr Mirko Canevaro For his remarkable body of work produced so far, and the external recognition achieved in the field of Ancient Greek and, in particular, Athenian law-making Thomas Reid Medal - Early Career Prize in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Royal Society of Edinburgh Dr Mirko Canevaro For outstanding research work in ancient Greek politics and law 2016 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason PROSE Award for Best Textbook in Humanities Association of American Publishers Prof Judy Barringer For book 'Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece' Gladstone Prize Royal Historical Society Dr Emma Hunter For book 'Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy, and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization' Finalist for Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize African Studies Association Dr Emma Hunter For 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 Resources BSECS Dr Adam Budd For website 'Circulating Enlightenment', http://www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk 2015 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History The University of Edinburgh Dr Alasdair Raffe For book 'The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714' Conington Prize Oxford University Dr Benjamin Gray For book 'Stasis and Stability: Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404-146 BC' 2014 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason Runner-up, American Studies Network Book Prize American Studies Network Dr Fabian Hilfrich For book 'Debating American Exceptionalism: Empire and Democracy in the Wake of the Spanish-American War' 2013 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason New Generation Thinker BBC Radio 3 and AHRC Dr Christopher Harding Thomas Reid Medal Royal Society of Edinburgh Dr Gordon Pentland American Politics Group Richard Neustadt Book Prize Political Science Association Prof Rhodri Jeffries-Jones For book 'The American Left: Its Impact on Politics and Society since 1900' 2012 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason Best Article Conference on Latin American History Dr 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 Engagement Royal Society of Edinburgh Prof Tom Devine Joint-third prize in Savings Banks Academic Awards World Savings Banks Institute Dr Eoin McLaughlin Book prize 2012 British Association for American Studies Dr Paul Quigley For book "Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865" Jefferson Davis Prize Museum of the Confederacy Dr Paul Quigley For book "Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865" Inaugural Sir Walter Scott Senior Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts Royal Society of Edinburgh Prof Tom Devine Gladstone History Book Prize Royal Historical Society Dr Wendy Ugolini For book "Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'" Hislibris Prize Hislibris Dr Julius Ruiz For book 'El terror rojo' ('The Red Terror') History Book of the Year Saltire Society Dr Jeremy Crang For book 'A Military History of Scotland' Templer Medal Society for Army Historical Research Dr Jeremy Crang For book 'A Military History of Scotland' 2011 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason Jeremiah Dalziel Prize in British History The University of Edinburgh Dr Tawny Paul 2010 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason Fellowship Royal Society of Edinburgh Professor Edgar Peltenburg By-Fellowship Churchill College, Cambridge Dr Jeremy Crang Senior Hume Brown Prize for ‘the best first book on any aspect of Scottish history’ The University of Edinburgh Dr Gordon Pentland P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award American Schools of Oriental Research Prof Edgar Peltenburg 2009 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason Visiting Professor Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Professor Richard Rodger David Berry Prize for 2008 Royal Historical Society Dr Gordon Pentland Betrayed by Infamous Spies - The Commemoration of Scotland's 'Radical War' of 1820 Anniversary Fellowship for 2009-10 Economic History Society Ms Amy Lloyd British perceptions of emigration 1870-1914 Visiting Scholarship St John's College Oxford Dr Francesca Locatelli Eritrean borderlands with Sudan and Ethiopa 1890 to 1952 'Choice' Outstanding Academic Title 2008 American Library Association Dr Martin Chick For 'Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and The United States since 1945' First winner of the Teaching Prize Economic History Society Dr 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 2008 Accolade Awarding Body Recipient Reason Caird Senior Research Fellow National Maritime Museum Dr Nuala Zahedieh Jamaica and the Atlantic economy, 1655-1720 R D W Connor Award Historical Society of North Carolina Dr Mark Newman "Toward 'Blessings of Liberty and Justice': The Catholic Church in North Carolina and Desegregation, 1945 - 1974" British Academy Senior Research Fellowship British Academy Professor Alvin Jackson Visiting Fellow Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany Dr Pertti Ahonen David Berry Prize for the best published scholarly journal article or essay on a subject dealing with Scottish history Royal Historical Society Dr Gordon Pentland This article was published on 2024-08-01
