In 2019 the International Committee announced the introduction of the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies for original research in Transnational American Studies (including original interdisciplinary research in Transnational American Studies).
The award honors Professor Shelly Fisher Fishkin’s outstanding dedication to the field by promoting exceptional scholarship that seeks multiple perspectives that enable comprehensive and complex approaches to American Studies, and which produce culturally, socially, and politically significant insights and interpretations relevant to Americanists around the world.
The prize is awarded for excellent publications that present original research in Transnational American Studies and which meet the following criteria:
- are authored by scholars based at institutions located outside the United States or by international independent scholars and
- have been published as monographs, journal articles, book chapters (monographs or edited collections) and
- have been published not earlier than three years prior to the submission deadline.
The prize includes a three-year membership in the ASA with an electronic subscription to the American Quarterly, a cash prize, and the invitation to reprint (parts of) the respective publication in the Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS).* Publications by undergraduate and graduate students are ineligible. Submissions of co- authored work are not accepted.
Applications should include:
- one publication for consideration for the prize (full article; in case of monographs: introduction; contents; and a representative excerpt of no more than 50 pages not exceeding 8 MB)
- a two-page vita, including a selected bibliography
- a one-page abstract for this publication
Applications should be submitted electronically by June 1, 2024 to Jasmine Mitchell, at jasmine.mitchell@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Late submissions will not be accepted.
*reproducible formats only; author needs to obtain publisher’s permission to reprint; author is responsible for all copyright procedures.
This Year's Winner (2023)
Y-dang Troeung, "Refugee’s Lifeworlds: The Afterlife of the Cold War in Cambodia" (Temple University Press, 2022).
Honorable Mention: Tina Shrestha, "Surviving the Sanctuary City: Asylum-Seeking Work in Nepali New York" (University of Washington Press, 2023
Past Winners
2022: Mahshid Mayar, "Citizens And Rulers Of The World: The American Child And The Cartographic Pedagogies Of Empire" (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). Honorable Mention: Dario Fazzi, “Imperial Constraints: Labor and U.S. Military Bases in Italy, 1954-1979” (Diplomatic History, Volume 45, Issue 3, 2021, 1-25).
2021: Padraig Kirwin, "Recognition, Resilience, and Relief: The Meaning of Gift,” in Padraig Kirwan and LeAnne Howe (eds.), Famine Pots: The Choctaw Irish Gift Exchange 1847-Present (Ann Arbor: Michigan State University Press, 2021).
2020: Christopher B. Patterson, Transitive Cultures: Anglophone Literature of the Transpacific, (Rutgers University Press, 2018)
2019: David Marshall Struthers, The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, (University of Illinois Press, 2019)