Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize Recipients
The Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism is awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding book published in English on any aspect of the history of journalism, concerning any area of the world, and any period. This prize recognizes the vital contributions that journalism history has made to our understanding of the past.
2023
Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906–1911 (Edinburgh Univ. Press)
2022
Kathy Roberts Forde and Sid Bedingfield, eds., Journalism and Jim Crow: White Supremacy and the Black Struggle for a New America (Univ. of Illinois Press)
2021
Vanessa Freije, Citizens of Scandal: Journalism, Secrecy, and the Politics of Reckoning in Mexico (Duke Univ. Press)
2020
Vincent DiGirolamo, Crying the News: A History of America’s Newsboys (Oxford Univ. Press)
2019
Phoebe Musandu, Pressing Interests: The Agenda and Influence of a Colonial East African Newspaper Sector (McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press)
2018
Julia Guarneri, Newsprint Metropolis: City Papers and the Making of Modern Americans (Univ. of Chicago Press)
2017
Amelia Bonea, The News of Empire: Telegraphy, Journalism, and the Politics of Reporting in Colonial India, c. 1830-1900 (Oxford Univ. Press)
2023 Palmegiano Prize
Janet Afary, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Kamran Afary, California State University, Los Angeles
Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906–1911 (Edinburgh Univ. Press)
This is a pathbreaking study of the tenuous existence in the early 20th century of the extraordinary anticolonial, cosmopolitan, and feminist periodical Mollā Nasreddin, influential across the ethnically diverse South Caucasus region, that aimed to reform Islam with modernist critiques of clerical authority and political corruption. The magnificently illustrated study culminates two decades of multilingual research by the authors in Baku, Tiflis, Munich, Moscow, and Tehran, with scholars and translators in Europe and the South Caucasus.