Awards

The Agricultural History Society awards several prizes each year to encourage scholarship related to the history of agriculture and rural life. The 2010 winners listed below were recognized at the 2011 Annual Meeting in Springfield, Illinois. Nominations for the 2011 awards are open until Jan. 1, 2012. Please contact executive secretary Jim Giesen for more information.

Theodore Saloutos Memorial Awardfor the best book on agricultural history.

  • 2010 Winner: David A. Chang, The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 (University of North Carolina Press)

Henry A. Wallace Award for the best book on any aspect (broadly interpreted) of agricultural history outside the United States.

  • 2010 Winner: Thomas D. Rogers, The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil (University of North Carolina Press)

Everett E. Edwards Awardfor the best article submitted to Agricultural History by a graduate student.

  • 2010 Winner: Lyvia Diser, for "Laboratory vs. Farm: The Conquest of Laboratory Science over Tradition in Belgian Agriculture"

Vernon Carstensen Memorial Award for the best article in Agricultural History.

  • 2010 Winner: Kendra Smith-Howard, "Antiobiotics and Agricultural Change: Purifying Milk and Protecting Health in the Postwar Era." in v. 84 n. 3

Wayne D. Rasmussen Award for the best article on agricultural history not published in Agricultural History.

  • 2010 Winner: Rebecca Earle, "If You Eat Their Food...": Diets and Bodies in Early Colonial Spanish America." The American Historical Review v. 115, n.03 (June 2010)

Gilbert C. Fite Dissertation Award for the best dissertation on agricultural history.

  • 2010 Winner: Venus Bivar,"The Ground Beneath Their Feet: Agricultural Industrialization and the Remapping of Rural France, 1945-1976" (University of Chicago)

National History Day History of Agriculture and Rural Life Award.

The society established the History of Agriculture and Rural Life Award to raise awareness of agricultural and rural history among secondary school students interested in history. Projects in any of the National History Day categories are eligible, including papers, dramatic presentations, media presentations, and exhibits, both by individuals and groups at either the Senior or Junior levels. The prize is awarded in June at the campus of the University of Maryland during the awards ceremony of the National History Day Contest. In addition to two hundred dollars, students receive certificates of their achievement and a complimentary copy of the issue of the Society's journal, Agricultural History, announcing the winner of the award.