A list of the prizes awarded to researchers in the School.
2017
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
Rising Star Award - Chancellor's Awards |
University of Edinburgh |
Dr Mirko Canevaro |
For his remarkable body of work produced so far, and the external recognition achieved in the field of Ancient Greek and, in particular, Athenian law-making |
Thomas Reid Medal - Early Career Prize in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Dr Mirko Canevaro |
For outstanding research work in ancient Greek politics and law
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2016
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
PROSE Award for Best Textbook in Humanities |
Association of American Publishers |
Prof Judy Barringer |
For book 'Art and Archaeology of Ancient Greece'
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Gladstone Prize
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Royal Historical Society |
Dr Emma Hunter |
For book 'Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy, and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization' |
Finalist for Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize |
African Studies Association |
Dr Emma Hunter |
For book 'Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania: Freedom, Democracy, and Citizenship in the Era of Decolonization' |
British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Prize for Digital Resources |
BSECS |
Dr Adam Budd |
For website 'Circulating Enlightenment', http://www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk |
2015
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
Senior Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History |
The University of Edinburgh |
Dr Alasdair Raffe |
For book 'The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660-1714' |
Conington Prize |
Oxford University |
Dr Benjamin Gray |
For book 'Stasis and Stability: Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404-146 BC' |
2014
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
Runner-up, American Studies Network Book Prize |
American Studies Network |
Dr Fabian Hilfrich |
For book 'Debating American Exceptionalism: Empire and Democracy in the Wake of the Spanish-American War' |
2013
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
New Generation Thinker |
BBC Radio 3 and AHRC |
Dr Christopher Harding |
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Thomas Reid Medal |
Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Dr Gordon Pentland |
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American Politics Group Richard Neustadt Book Prize
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Political Science Association |
Prof Rhodri Jeffries-Jones |
For book 'The American Left: Its Impact on Politics and Society since 1900' |
2012
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
Best Article |
Conference on Latin American History |
Dr Camillia Cowling |
“Funding Freedom, Popularizing Politics: Abolitionism and Local Emancipation Funds in 1880s Brazil,” co-authored with Celso Castilho, Luso-Brazilian Review (University of Wisconsin Press), 47:1 (Spring 2010): 89-120. |
Beltane Senior Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement |
Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Prof Tom Devine |
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Joint-third prize in Savings Banks Academic Awards |
World Savings Banks Institute |
Dr Eoin McLaughlin |
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Book prize |
2012 British Association for American Studies |
Dr Paul Quigley |
For book "Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865" |
Jefferson Davis Prize |
Museum of the Confederacy |
Dr Paul Quigley |
For book "Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865" |
Inaugural Sir Walter Scott Senior Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts |
Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Prof Tom Devine |
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Gladstone History Book Prize |
Royal Historical Society |
Dr Wendy Ugolini |
For book "Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'" |
Hislibris Prize |
Hislibris |
Dr Julius Ruiz |
For book 'El terror rojo' ('The Red Terror') |
History Book of the Year |
Saltire Society |
Dr Jeremy Crang |
For book 'A Military History of Scotland' |
Templer Medal |
Society for Army Historical Research |
Dr Jeremy Crang |
For book 'A Military History of Scotland' |
2011
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
Jeremiah Dalziel Prize in British History |
The University of Edinburgh |
Dr Tawny Paul |
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2010
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
Fellowship |
Royal Society of Edinburgh |
Professor Edgar Peltenburg |
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By-Fellowship |
Churchill College, Cambridge |
Dr Jeremy Crang |
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Senior Hume Brown Prize for ‘the best first book on any aspect of Scottish history’ |
The University of Edinburgh |
Dr Gordon Pentland |
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P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award |
American Schools of Oriental Research |
Prof Edgar Peltenburg |
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2009
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
Visiting Professor |
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris |
Professor Richard Rodger |
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David Berry Prize for 2008 |
Royal Historical Society |
Dr Gordon Pentland |
Betrayed by Infamous Spies - The Commemoration of Scotland's 'Radical War' of 1820 |
Anniversary Fellowship for 2009-10 |
Economic History Society |
Ms Amy Lloyd |
British perceptions of emigration 1870-1914 |
Visiting Scholarship |
St John's College Oxford |
Dr Francesca Locatelli |
Eritrean borderlands with Sudan and Ethiopa 1890 to 1952 |
'Choice' Outstanding Academic Title 2008 |
American Library Association |
Dr Martin Chick |
For 'Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and The United States since 1945' |
First winner of the Teaching Prize |
Economic History Society |
Dr Martin Chick |
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Winner of the Ratcliff Prize for ‘an important contribution by an individual to the study of Ethnology in Great Britain' |
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Dr Wendy Ugolini |
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2008
Accolade |
Awarding Body |
Recipient |
Reason |
Caird Senior Research Fellow |
National Maritime Museum |
Dr Nuala Zahedieh |
Jamaica and the Atlantic economy, 1655-1720 |
R D W Connor Award |
Historical Society of North Carolina |
Dr Mark Newman |
"Toward 'Blessings of Liberty and Justice': The Catholic Church in North Carolina and Desegregation, 1945 - 1974" |
British Academy Senior Research Fellowship |
British Academy |
Professor Alvin Jackson |
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Visiting Fellow |
Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany |
Dr Pertti Ahonen |
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David Berry Prize for the best published scholarly journal article or essay on a subject dealing with Scottish history |
Royal Historical Society |
Dr Gordon Pentland |
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