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.
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
2020 Rosenzweig Prize
Elaine Sullivan, University of California, Santa Cruz
Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford Univ. Press)
The committee was particularly impressed by the use of 3D recreations to help site visitors better understand the role of monument visibility in royal and elite sacred landscape production in ancient Egypt. Committee members also appreciated the detailed reflections on the methods and technology employed in the project and the ways in which the project team documented both certainties and uncertainties in their recreations of the monumental landscape of Saqqara. Finally, the committee wishes to compliment Stanford University Press for its willingness to invest in new forms of digital historical scholarship.