Roy Rosenzweig Prize Recipients
The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History is sponsored jointly by the AHA and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason University. This nonresidential prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on an innovative and freely available new media project, and in particular for work that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with technology and the practice of history.
2022
Tara E. Nummedal and Donna Bilak, Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary (Univ. of Virginia Press)
2021
Robert Lee, Tristan Ahtone, Margaret Pearce, Kalen Goodluck, Geoff McGhee, and Cody Leff, Land-Grab Universities (High Country News)
2020
Elaine Sullivan, Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford Univ. Press)
2019
Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers, and Edward Ayers, American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History
2018
Adam Clulow and Tom Chandler, Virtual Angkor
2017
Keisha Blain and Ibram Kendi, Black Perspectives
2016
West Chester Univ., Goin’ North: Stories from the First Great Migration to Philadelphia, Charles Hardy III and Janneken Smucker (West Chester Univ.) and Doug Boyd (Univ. of Kentucky Libraries)
2015
South Asian American Digital Archive, The First Days Project
2014
Kansas City Public Library, Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865
2013
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Digital Archive: International History Declassified, History and Public Policy Program
2012
Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Clarence Darrow Digital Collection, Univ. of Minnesota Law Library
2011
New York Public Library, What's on the Menu?, a project of NYPL Labs. Ben Vershbow, project dir.; Rebecca Federman, project curator; and Michael Inman, project curator
2010
DocSouth, Going to the Show, Robert C. Allen, scholarly advisor; Natasha Smith, principal investigator; Elise Moore and Adrienne MacKay, project managers
2009
Univ. of Sydney, Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930, Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton, and Graham White
2022 Rosenzweig Prize
Tara E. Nummedal, Brown University, and Donna Bilak, New York University
Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary (Univ. of Virginia Press)
Furnace and Fugue exemplifies the best in born-digital research with a rich integration of text, sound, and imagery—all of which facilitates a deeper scholarly engagement with the historical document. This elegant, meticulously designed website makes it possible, for the first time, for scholars and students to grasp as a whole the visual, aural, and written elements of a complex 17th-century work. Digital linkages and essays unlock the puzzles that alchemist and author Michael Maier embedded in his multilayered texts and images. Both approachable and deeply researched, Furnace and Fugue combines great design with the unique affordances of a digital medium. It brings depth and rigor to a fascinating topic, with evident care for how a user will navigate the site.