Prize Winners
Prize Winners for 2024
The following prizes were announced at the 2025 annual meeting.
SHEAR Book Prize for 2024
The 2024 SHEAR Book Prize went to Alison L. LaCroix (Yale University Press) for The Interbellum Constitution: Union, Commerce, and Slavery in the Age of Federalisms. Alison L. LaCroix is a Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
James H. Broussard First Book Prize for 2024
The 2024 James Broussard Best First Book Prize went to Sarah L. H. Gronningsater for The Rising Generation: Gradual Abolition, Black Legal Culture, and the Making of National Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press). Sarah L. H. Gronningsater is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
James Bradford Biography Prize for 2024
The 2024 James Bradford Biography Prize went to Patrick Spero for The Scientist Turned Spy: André Michaux, Thomas Jefferson, and the Conspiracy of 1793 (University of Virginia Press). Patrick Spero is Executive Officer of the American Philosophical Society.
Mary Kelley Prize for 2024
The 2024 Mary Kelley Prize went to Shannon Eaves for Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South (University of North Carolina Press). Shannon Eaves is an Associate Professor at the College of Charleston.