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
Katherine McDonough, Daniel CS Wilson, Kaspar Beelen, Kasra Hosseini, Rosie Wood, Andrew Smith, Kalle Westerling, Daniel van Strien, Olivia Vane, Jon Lawrence, and Ruth Ahnert, MapReader (Living with Machines)
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
2023 Rosenzweig Prize
Katherine McDonough (Lancaster Univ. and Alan Turing Inst.), Daniel CS Wilson (Alan Turing Inst.), Kaspar Beelen (Univ. of London), Kasra Hosseini (Zalando Research), Rosie Wood (Alan Turing Inst.), Andrew Smith (Alan Turing Inst.), Kalle Westerling (Alan Turing Inst.), Daniel van Strien (Hugging Face), Olivia Vane (The Economist), Jon Lawrence (Exeter Univ.), and Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary Univ. of London and Alan Turing Inst.)
MapReader (Living with Machines)
MapReader contributes to a new methodology of distant viewing for maps by applying a computer vision pipeline to historical maps. This open-source software allows scholars to study maps at a large scale. The scholars who created this software have developed an innovative approach to computationally extracting information from digitized maps, while also publishing their approach as peer-reviewed scholarship.