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ASWAD 2021 Book and Article Prizes2019 Results | 2020 | 2020 Results | 2021 | 2021 Results | 2022 | 2022 Finalists | 2022 Results
ASWAD Outstanding First Book PrizeThe Outstanding First Book Prize annually honors an outstanding 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. Finalists Tiffany N. Florvil, Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement (University of Illinois Press) Aneeka Ayanna Henderson, Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture (University of North Carolina Press) Oludamini Ogunnaike, Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions, Penn State University Press Chinua Thelwell, Exporting Jim Crow: Blackface Minstrelsy in South Africa and Beyond (University of Massachusetts Press) Winner ![]() ![]()
P. Sterling Stuckey Book PrizeThe 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 publication. Finalists GerShun Avilez, Black Queer Freedom: Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire (University of Illinois Press) Vincent Brown, Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press) Shana L. Redmond, Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Duke University Press) Quito J. Swan, Pauulu's Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida) Winner ![]() ![]()
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book PrizeThe Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Book Prize annually honors an outstanding 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. Winner ![]() ![]()
Outstanding Article Prize
The Article Prize annually honors an outstanding peer-reviewed article focused on Africa and/or the African diaspora. Finalists Robin P. Chapdelaine, “Marriage Certificates and Walker Cards: Nigerian Migrant Labor, Wives, and Prostitutes in Colonial Pó.” African Economic History, 48, 2, (2020), pp. 1-36. Cécile Fromont, “Paper, Ink, Vodun, and the Inquisition: Tracing Power, Slavery, and Witchcraft in the Early Modern Portuguese Atlantic.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 88, 2 (2020), pp. 460-504. Winner
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