AHA Award Recipients
James Henry Breasted Prize
This prize, named in honor of James Henry Breasted, a pioneer in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern history and President of the Association in 1928, is awarded for the best book in English on any field of history prior to the year 1000 A.D. The prize was endowed by Joseph O. Losos, a longtime member of the Association. The prize was first awarded in 1985. Until 1999, it rotated annually among the following geographical areas: Near East and Egypt; Far East and South Asia; Africa, North America, and Latin America; and Europe.
2007 |
John Matthews, The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East, Yale Univ. Press, 2006 |
| 2006 | Chris Wickham, All Souls College, Univ. of Oxford, Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400–800 (Oxford University Press, 2005) |
2005 |
Callie Williamson, Independent Scholar, The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic (University of Michigan Press, 2005) |
2004 |
Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University, The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece. (University of Chicago Press, 2004) |
2003 |
David Lewis-Williams, University of the Witwatersrand, The Mind in the Cave. (Thames & London, 2002) |
2002 |
William V. Harris, Columbia University. Restraining Rage: The Ideology of Anger Control in Classical Antiquity(Harvard University Press, 2001) |
2001 |
Barry Cunliffe, Oxford University. Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples 8000 BC–AD 1500 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001) |
2000 |
Warwick Ball, Stow, Galashiels, United Kingdom. Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire (Routledge, 2000) |
1999 |
David Woodward, University of Wisconsin, and G. Malcolm Lewis, University of Sheffield, editors. The History of Cartography: Cartography in the Traditional African, American, Artic, Australian, and Pacific Societies, volume 2, book 3 (The University of Chicago Press, 1998) |
1998 |
No award |
1997 |
Amelie Kuhrt, U. College, London, The Ancient Near East c. 3000–330 B.C., 2 vols. (Routledge, 1995) |
1996 |
William E. Klingshirn, Catholic U. of America, Caesrius of Arles: The Making of a Christian Community in Late Antique Gaul (Cambridge U. Press, 1994) |
1995 |
Bruce D. Smith, Nat’l Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) |
1994 |
Miranda Shaw, U. of Richmond, Passionate Enlightenment: Women in Tantric Buddhism (Princeton U. Press, 1994) |
1993 |
E. J. W. Barber, Occidental College, Prehistoric Textile (Princeton U. Press, 1991) |
1992 |
Glen W. Bowersock, Institute for Advanced Study, Hellenism in Late Antiquity (U. of Michigan Press, 1990) |
1990 |
Robert Borgen, U. of California, Davis, Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court (Harvard U. Press, 1986) |
1989 |
Dorothy J. Thompson, Girton College, Cambridge U., Memphis Under the Ptolemies (Princeton U. Press) |
1988 |
Erich S. Gruen, U. of California, Berkeley, The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Age of Rome (U. of California Press) |
1987 |
No award |
1986 |
Benjamin I. Schwartz, Harvard U., The World of Thought in Ancient China (Belknap Press of Harvard U. Press) |
1985 |
John Van Seeters, U. of North Carolina, In Search of History: Historiography in the Ancient World and the Origins of Biblical History (Yale U.P.) |