George L. Mosse Prize
The submission deadline has passed. Awardees are announced in the fall, and the next contest will begin in spring 2023.
The American Historical Association awards the George L. Mosse Prize annually for an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since 1500. This prize was established with funds donated by former students, colleagues, and friends of Dr. Mosse.
The current prize amount is $1,000. See the list of past recipients.
The general rules for submission are:
- Only books of a high scholarly distinction should be submitted. Research accuracy, originality, and literary merit are important selection factors.
- Books with a copyright of 2022 are eligible for the 2023 award.
- Nomination submissions may be made by an author or by a publisher. Publishers may submit as many entries as they wish. Authors or publishers may submit the same book for multiple AHA prizes.
- Nominators must complete an online prize submission form for each book submitted.
- One copy of each entry must be sent to each committee member and clearly labeled “Mosse Prize Entry.” Print copies preferred unless otherwise indicated. If only e-copy is available, please contact review committee members beforehand to arrange submission format.
Please Note: Entries must be received by May 15, 2023, to be eligible for the 2023 competition. Entries will not be returned. Recipients will be announced on the AHA website in October 2023 and recognized during a ceremony at the January 2024 AHA annual meeting in San Francisco.
For questions, please contact the Prize Administrator.
2022 Mosse Prize
Kira Thurman, University of Michigan
Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms (Cornell Univ. Press)
Covering over a century of modern German and Austrian history, Kira Thurman’s transnational study, Singing Like Germans, documents the presence, popularity, and impact of Black classical musicians in central Europe and the place of “German” classical music in African American culture. It brilliantly combines close attention to individual performers’ lives and careers with penetrating analysis of the limiting and distorting effects of national and racial prejudice on musical culture, tradition, performance, and reception.