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.
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
2019 Rosenzweig Prize
American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History
Robert K. Nelson, Justin Madron, Nathaniel Ayers, and Edward Ayers, Digital Scholarship Lab, Univ. of Richmond
American Panorama, an ever-expanding atlas of data-rich maps, experiments with what spatial visualization can reveal about topics including the discriminatory redlining of neighborhoods, urban renewal, and congressional elections. Each map makes explicit its context, sources, and methodological underpinnings while making historical arguments through interactive, digital visualizations. A concern with transcultural history of current resonance helps American Panorama target a large audience beyond the academy.