Following 5 months of deliberations, the results of the 2024 Elizabeth Eisenstein Essay Prize have been announced.
The 2024 Eisenstein Committee, chaired by Dr Joan Cunningham have unanimously selected Mary Ann Irwin as First Prize winner of this year’s contest for her paper “Women with Hearts” and the Americanization of Jewish San Francisco, 1850–1880, Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (4): 538–575. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.4.538. Dr Irwin gains not only the kudos of winning the Prize, but also an honorarium of 350 US dollars.
Scoring for this award is based on clarity of argument, writing style, contribution to the field, and, very importantly, accessibility to the educated non-specialist reader, and the winning submission was scored very highly in all criteria by all committee members.
This year, two submissions were tied for Runner-up:
Kate Burrows’ The History and Present of Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant Advertising, Advertising & Society Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1353/asr.2023.a905721, and
Christine De Matos’ The Home as a Space for Re-education: Imperialism, Military Occupation, and Housekeeping Manuals, The International History Review, 46(3), 291-311. Jan 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2024.2303978.
Congratulations to all of them!