Congratulations to Professor Barbara D. Savage who has won the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Best Book Award for 2024! She won this prize for Merze Tate: The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar, which illuminated the exciting life of pioneering Black woman scholar, Dr. Merze Tate.
The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) awards an annual prize to recognize an outstanding book in the field of African American history and culture. Books must engage archives in order to be eligible for consideration, however, the book prize committee invites submissions from across disciplinary and interdisciplinary boundaries.
The ASALH Book Prize committee is interested in projects that model rigorous and imaginative approaches to this field of study; books that are beautifully written; books that have clear implications for how we teach and represent specific aspects of African American history and culture; books that have the capacity to introduce important aspects of African American experiences to broad publics; books that use sharp analyses of African American history and culture to speak boldly to the contemporary moment; books that engage with new and/or previously underutilized archives; and books that use particular experiences in African American history and culture to illuminate universal aspects of the human experience.