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Prizes, Awards, & Fellowships

The ASEH offers a variety of competitive prizes and awards.
More information and application instructions can be found using the links. Applications for the current cycle are now closed.

The new funding cycle will open in early September 2026.

To learn about and apply for the ASEH Fellows Program Click here.

Prizes for Scholarship
applications

  • George Perkins Marsh Prize
    (best book in environmental history)

  • Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in journal Environmental History (with Forest History Society)

  • ASEH Alice Hamilton Prize
    (best article outside Environmental History)

  • ASEH Rachel Carson Prize
    (best dissertation)

  • ASEH-FHS Graduate Essay Prize
    (best unpublished essay by a graduate student)


Awards for Service and Achievement
nominations

  • Distinguished Scholar Award
  • Lisa Mighetto Distinguished Service Award
  • Public Outreach Project Award (presented every two years to an environmental history project that engages the public). 
  • Distinguished Career in Public Environmental History (presented every two years to an individual who has promoted environmental history to the public over time). 


Research Fellowships
applications

  • Hal Rothman Dissertation Fellowship
    (graduate students)

  • J. Donald Hughes Graduate Research Fellowship
    (graduate students)

  • Equity Graduate Student Fellowship
    (graduate students)

  • ASEH-Newberry Library Fellowship
    (open-rank)

  • Samuel P. Hays Research Fellowship
    (open-rank)

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