Past winners:
No book may compete for more than one of the three disciplinary prizes (Donnelly, Durkan, Rhodes). In deciding which committee should receive the submission, authors and nominators should be guided by what academic audience the book addresses. Books addressed primarily to historians and/or social scientists should go to the Donnelly committee. Books addressed primarily to literary scholars should go to the Rhodes committee. Books which are addressed to students of language or culture (including especially the visual and performing arts) should go to the Durkan committee. Books addressed to an interdisciplinary audience (e.g. works in cultural studies, gender studies and postcolonial studies) may be submitted to any of the three committees. The disciplinary committee chairs in consultation with each other may choose to reassign any book to a different prize competition in the interests of disciplinary comparability among the contenders for each prize. An author's first scholarly monograph (or collection of original essays) may be submitted to the Murphy prize committee in addition to one of the three disciplinary committees. Authors may contact the committee chair to determine whether their book has been submitted for a prize. Any ACIS member may submit a nomination to the relevant committee chair.
Works should be entered for one prize only, although an author’s first
scholarly monograph (or collection of original
essays) may be additionally submitted to the Murphy Prize. Prize chairs
may choose to reassign entered works.
The 2002 prize-winning books will be announced in the autumn of 2003 and awarded at the ACIS business meeting in Liverpool in 2004. Please do not send copies of books to ACIS officers. For more information contact the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, John Harrington (harrij2@rpi.edu) and/or the relevant specific book prize committee chair.
The Adele Dalsimer prize is to be awarded for an outstanding dissertation
in Irish Studies (any discipline) for which a doctorate was conferred during
the calendar year 2002. A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor,
together with an abstract of the dissertation, must be received by May
1, 2003. No supervisor may nominate more than one dissertation. Please
do not sent copies of the dissertation itself until requested to do so
by the committee chair.