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2025 ASWAD ACADEMIC PRIZES - FINALISTS
ASWAD is pleased to announce the finalists for its interdisciplinary awards for outstanding scholarship on Africa and/or the African Diaspora published during the 2025 calendar year.
The Article Prize annually honors an outstanding peer-reviewed article focused on Africa and/or the African diaspora. The award committee will consider scholarly articles focused on any period and from any discipline published in English and is particularly interested in publications that are methodologically and conceptually innovative and demonstrate academic excellence.
The Finalists for the 2025 Outstanding Article Prize are: 
Abigail Celis for “Mapping the Earth's Embrace: Queer Life-Building in Mame-Diarra Niang's Éthérée” African Arts Volume 57, Number 1, Spring 2024, pp. 32-45.
Elise Mitchell for “Across the Atlantic: morbidity, geography, and the eighteenth-century French Atlantic slave trade,” Atlantic Studies, 21:1, 90-114, DOI: 10.1080/14788810.2023.2265762.
Chijioke Onah for “#BringBackOurGirls: Transnational Activism and the Remediation of the 2014 Chibok Girls’ Kidnapping in Nigeria,” African Studies Review (2024), 67: 2, 295–320.
Cassie Osei and John A. Mundell for “Gayl Jones's Afro-Brazil: Hemispheric Black Feminisms and (Mis)Readings of Marronage,” Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, Volume 13, Issue 2, 2024, pp. 131-155.
The Outstanding First Book Prize annually honors a single-authored book focused on Africa and/or the African diaspora submitted by or on behalf of a scholar, activist, and/or artist who has not previously published a single-authored monograph. The award committee will consider books on any period and from any discipline published in English and is particularly interested in books that are methodologically and conceptually innovative and demonstrate academic excellence. Funding for the prize is made possible by a substantial contribution from an anonymous donor.
The Finalists for the 2025 Outstanding First Book Prize are:
Imagine Lagos: Mapping History, Place, and Politics in a Nineteenth-Century African City, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi
The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran, Beeta Baghoolizadeh
Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery, Mary Hicks
The Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize annually honors an exceptional single-authored book focused on gender and sexuality in Africa and/or the African diaspora submitted by or on behalf of a scholar, activist, and/or artist. The award committee will consider books on any period and from any discipline published in English and is particularly interested in books that are methodologically and conceptually innovative and demonstrate academic excellence. Funding for the prize is made possible by a substantial contribution from four anonymous donors.
The Finalists for the 2025 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize are:
If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa, Brooke Bocast
Geographies of Relation: Diasporas and Borderlands in the Americas, Theresa Delgadillo
The P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize annually acknowledges books published in English submitted by or on behalf of a scholar, activist, and/or artist who has at least one previous single-authored book or comparable work. Nominated books must be on topics related to the study of the worldwide African diaspora. The award committee will consider books on any period from any discipline that examines the people and/or physical environment of Africa and/or its diaspora. The committee is particularly interested in books that are methodologically and conceptually innovative and represent literary excellence. Funding for the prize is made possible by a substantial contribution from an anonymous donor.
The Nominees for the 2025 P. Sterling Stuckey Book Prize are:
The Driver's Story: Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery, Randy M. Browne
Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War, Edda L. Fields-Black
The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Black Freedom, Erik S. McDuffie
Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of Solidarity, Christopher Tounsel
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