American Historical Association

Prizes

AHA Award Recipients

Awards for Scholarly Distinction

In 1984 the Council of the American Historical Association established a new award entitled the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction. Each year, the awards go to senior historians of the highest distinction who have spent the bulk of their professional careers in the United States.

2011	Donald R. Kelley (Rutgers Univ.-New Brunswick)
2010	Susan Naquin, Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton Univ. Peter Stansky, Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University
2009	Saul Friedländer, professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles Leon Litwack, historian and professor of American History emeritus at the University of California Berkeley
2008	Joseph Harris, Howard University Michael Kammen, Cornell University Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2007	Martin Duberman, Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus, Lehman College and the Graduate School, City Univ. of New York
	Jack P. Greene, Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus, Johns Hopkins Univ.
	Anne Firor Scott, W. K. Boyd Professor Emerita of History, Duke Univ.
2006	David Brion Davis, Yale University
	Lloyd Gardner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
	Fritz Stern, Columbia University
2005	Lawrence W. Levine, University of California at Berkeley
	Nancy G. Siraisi, Hunter College, City University of New York
	David Underdown, Yale University
2004	John G. A. Pocock, Harry C. Black Professor Emeritus at The Johns Hopkins University
	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., City University of New York
2003	Thomas D. Clark, University of Kentucy
	Peter Gay, Yale University
	Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Harvard University
2002	Elizabeth L. Eisenstein , University of Michigan
	John Higham, Johns Hopkins University (American culture, political)
	Richard P. McCormick, emeritus Rutgers University (American political)
2001	Ernest R. May, Harvard University (American foreign policy)
	Nikki R. Keddie, University of California, Los Angeles (Middle East social, intellectual, and gender)
2000	Ramsay MacMullen, Yale University (Roman Empire)
	Arno J. Mayer, Princeton University (modern Europe)
	Robert V. Remini, University of Illinois at Chicago (early America, Andrew Jackson)
1999	Earl Pomeroy, University of Oregon (U.S. West)
	Eugen Weber, University of California, Los Angeles (modern France)
	Gerhard Weinberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Germany)
1998	Tulio Halperin-Donghi, University of California, Berkeley (Latin America and Argentina since the eighteenth century)
	Robert Paxton, Columbia University (modern France)
1997	Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Harvard University (American economic and business)
	August Meier, Kent State University (African American)
	Benjamin I. Schwartz, Harvard University. (China)
1996	H. Stuart Hughes, University of California, San Diego (modern Europe, intellectual)
	George L. Mosse, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Europe)
	Barbara and Stanley Stein, Princeton University (Latin America/Brazil)
1995	Lawrence Stone, Princeton University (Tudor Stuart England, social/comparative)
1994	George F. Kennan, Institute for Advanced Study (U.S. diplomatic)
	H. Leon Prather, Sr., Tennessee State University (U.S. South, African American)
	Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, University of California, Berkeley (Russia)
1993	Emma Lou Thornbrough, Butler University (African American)
	Brian Tierney, Cornell University (Medieval)
1992	Gerda Lerner, University of Wisconsin, Madison (19th c. American social, women’s)
	Carl E. Schorske, Princeton University (Modern Europe)
	George R. Woolfolk, Prairie View A&M College (African American)
1991	Gerhart B. Ladner, University of California, Los Angeles (Medieval, Art, Church)
	Merze Tate, Howard University (U.S. diplomatic, international)
	Chester G. Starr, University of Michigan (Ancient)
1990	Nettie Lee Benson, University of Texas, Austin (Latin America/Mexico)
	Margaret Atwood Judson, Douglass College/Rutgers (British constitutional)
	Kenneth M. Setton, Institute for Advanced Study (Medieval and Renaissance)
1989	Paul Oskar Kristeller, Columbia University (Renaissance)
	Caroline Robbins, Bryn Mawr College (English political and constitutional)
	Kenneth M. Stampp, University of California, Berkeley (Civil War and Reconstruction)
1988	Helen G. Edmonds, North Carolina Central University (African American)
	Sylvia Thrupp Strayer, University of Michigan (medieval England/Europe)
	Edwin O. Reischauer, Harvard University (Japan)
1987	Angie Debo, Independent Scholar (Native American)
	John Whitney Hall, Yale University (Japan, Tokugawa Period)
	Benjamin Quarles, Morgan State University (African American, anti-slavery movement)
1986	Woodrow Borah, University of California, Berkeley (Latin America, colonial Mexico)
	Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University (American)
1985	Felix Gilbert, Institute for Advanced Study (European, history of political ideas)

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