John Phillip Reid Book Award

Criteria

Best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar, published in English in Anglo-American legal history.

Amount

TBD

Deadline

June 15, 2019

Named for John Phillip Reid, the prolific legal historian and founding member of the Society, and made possible by the generous contributions of his friends and colleagues, the John Phillip Reid Book Award is awarded annually for the best monograph by a mid-career or senior scholar, published in English in any of the fields defined broadly as Anglo-American legal history, with a preference for work that falls within Reid’s own interests in seventeenth- through nineteenth-century Anglo-America and Native American law.

The award is given on the recommendation of the Society’s Committee on the John Phillip Reid Book Award. (First books, written wholly or primarily while the author was untenured, should be sent to the Cromwell Book Prize committee of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation. The Reid Award and the Cromwell Book Prize are mutually exclusive.)

For the 2019 prize, the Reid Award Committee will accept nominations from authors, presses, or anyone else, of any book that bears a copyright date in 2018. Nominations for the Reid Award should be submitted by June 15, 2019, by sending a curriculum vitae of the author and one copy of the book to each member of the committee.

Committee Members

  • Prof. Laura Edwards (Chair)
    221 Stable Rd.
    Carrboro, NC 27510

  • Prof. Susan Carle
    5605 Wilson Lane
    Bethesda, MD 20814

  • Prof. Christian McMillen
    1526 Rutledge Avenue
    Charlottesville, VA 22903

  • Deborah Rosen
    Department of History
    Ramer History House
    Lafayette College
    718 Sullivan Road
    Easton, PA 18042

  • Prof. Richard J. Ross
    College of Law and Department of History
    University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
    504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
    Champaign, IL 61820

Past Recipients

2018

Amalia D. Kessler (Stanford University)

Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017).

2017

Risa Goluboff (University of Virginia)

Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s (Oxford University Press).

2016

Reuel Schiller (UC Hastings)

Forging Rivals: Race, Class, Law, and the Collapse of Postwar Liberalism (Cambridge University Press).

2015

Max M. Edling (King's College, London)

A Hercules in the Cradle: War, Money, and the American State, 1783-1867 (University of Chicago Press).

2014

Michele Landis Dauber (Stanford University)

The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State (University of Chicago Press).

2013

John Fabian Witt (Yale University)

Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press).

2012

Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Harvard University)

Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford University Press).

2011

Christopher Tomlins (University of California, Irvine)

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865 (Cambridge University Press).

2010

Catherine L. Fisk (University of California, Irvine)

Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (University of North Carolina Press).

2009

Rebecca M. McLennan (University of California, Berkeley)

The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 (Cambridge University Press).

2008

Christian W. McMillen (University of Virginia)

Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory (Yale University Press).

2007

William M. Wiecek (Syracuse University)

The Birth of the Modern Constitution: The United States Supreme Court, 1941-1953 (volume 12 of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States) (Cambridge University Press).

2006

Daniel J. Hulsebosch (New York University)

Constituting Empire: New York and the Transformation of Constitutionalism in the Atlantic World, 1664-1830 (University of North Carolina Press).

2006

Honorable Mention: Stuart Banner (University of California, Los Angeles)

How the Indians Lost their Land: Law and Power on the Frontier (Harvard University Press).

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