Outstanding Scholarship

Each year, the ASEH awards five prizes for outstanding scholarship in the field of environmental history. The instructions for submitting your work for consideration for each prize are listed below. Applications for prizes will open September 3.

Publication Awards

George Perkins Marsh Prize 
for best book in environmental history

The prize committee will evaluate published books that appear between November 1, 2024 and October 31, 2025. 

Deadline for submissions: November 20, 2025.

Hard copies of books are preferred - and anyone can submit a book (authors and publishers). Please send one copy of each book submission to each committee member:

Brian McCammack

2023 W. Chase Ave.

Chicago, IL 60645

Thaisa Way

Dunbarton Oaks

1703 32nd St NW

Washington, DC 20007

Megan Black*

Dept. of History, MIT

77 Massachusetts Ave

Building E51-255

Cambridge, MA 02139

*On October 23, 2025 Megan Black joined the committee, replacing Ling Zhang.  Books that have already been mailed to Dr. Zhang for consideration are being mailed to Dr. Black.  

Alice Hamilton Prize
for best article outside journal Environmental History

Eligibility
Articles published between November 1, 2024 and October 31, 2025.

Deadline: November 20, 2025.

Instructions
Please submit a pdf file of the published article that clearly indicates the author's name, the article title, the name of the journal, the issue number, and the date of publication through THIS FORM

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

Articles that appear in our journal, Environmental History, are automatically considered by our journal's editorial board, and there is no need to submit entries for the Leopold-Hidy Prize.

Awards for Unpublished Research