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.
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
2021 Rosenzweig Prize
Robert Lee, University of Cambridge; Tristan Ahtone, Grist; Margaret Pearce, Studio 1:1; Kalen Goodluck; Geoff McGhee; and Cody Leff
Land-Grab Universities (High Country News)
“Land-Grab Universities” uses historical datasets and geographic visualizations to highlight the debts American land grant universities owe to Indigenous peoples. In doing so, it has caught the attention of students, faculty, and administrators and has catalyzed additional research into this subject as well as the beginnings of efforts toward outreach and restitution to the Indigenous peoples whose lands were taken at their founding. It is an exemplar of the best traditions of open access digital scholarship.