AHA Award Recipients
Martin A. Klein Prize in African History
First awarded at the 2011 annual meeting, the Klein Prize recognizes the most distinguished work of scholarship on African history published in English during the previous year. Focusing primarily on continental Africa (including those islands usually treated as countries of Africa), books on any period of African history and from any disciplinary field that incorporates a historical perspective are eligible. The prize committee pays particular attention to methodological innovation, conceptual originality, literary excellence, and reinterpretation of old themes or development of new theoretical perspectives.
The prize is named for Martin A. Klein, who is currently professor of history at the University of Toronto. Funding for the prize was completed thanks to a substantial donation from Dr. Mougo Nyaggah of California State University at Fullerton and his wife Dr. Lynette Nyaggah. Mougo Nyaggah was Klein’s first graduate student at the University of California Berkeley. Nyaggah credits the completion of his doctorate to Klein’s mentoring, guidance, enthusiasm, and commitment to the research and teaching of African history. He observed that, “There are many Martins who have or will mentor and inspire many Africanist students in American universities. Those mentors will be honored by this prize for their human and scholarly contribution.”
2012 |
Dr. Bruce Hall, A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600-1960 (Cambridge Univ. Press) |
2012 |
Dr. Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade (MIT Press & Wits Univ. Press) |
2011 |
Dr. Jonathon Glassman, War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar (Indiana Univ. Press) |
2010 |
Dr. Ghislaine E. Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in 19th-Century Western Africa (Cambridge Univ. Press) |
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