Each year the IAMHIST Council awards prizes for the best articles by both an established scholar and a new scholar published in the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. They are:
IAMHIST prizes
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Prizes
The David H. Culbert Routledge-IAMHIST Prize for Best Article by an Established Scholar
Hannah Andrews, ‘Transnational Television Caricature: The Global Spread of Spitting Image, 1984–1994‘. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 45:2 (2025), pp. 382–402.
Previous winners have included:
Anandita Bajpai, ‘Material Lives of Cold War Radio Pasts in India‘, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 44: 1 (2024), pp. 86-119.
Sandeep Ray, ‘What Did the Haji Jawa See in Mecca? A film from 1928 as Primary Source’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 43: 4 (2023), pp. 1023–1049.
David Blanke, ‘Ready for their close-up: fan scenarists, Cecil B. DeMille, and the studio system’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 42: 3 (September 2022), pp. 395-426.
Richard Abel, ‘The Middlemen of the Movies: US Film Exchanges, 1915-1919’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 41: 4 (December 2021), pp. 641-62.
The Philip M. Taylor Routledge-IAMHIST Prize by a New Scholar
Axelle Demus, ‘Harnessing Cable Access Television as a Technology of Care and Community Education: Thunder Gay Magazine‘s HIV/AIDS Programming (1987–1991)‘. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 45:3 (2025), pp. 515–534.
Previous winners have included:
Erica Harrison, ‘Suitcase of Soundscapes: The London Transcription Service and the Packaging of Wartime Sounds for the BBC’s Global Radio Audience‘, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 44: 3 (2024), pp. 469-483.
Harry Parker, ‘‘View’ and ‘Process’: Early British Industrial Films and Visual Culture’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 43: 4 (2023), pp. 979-1000.
Yanping Guo, ‘Supporters or Saboteurs: Deviated Experiences of Maoist Film Propaganda in Rural China’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 42: 3 (September 2022), pp. 493-519.
C. Yamini Krishna, ‘Princely Films: The Silver Jubilee Film of 1937 and the Princely State of Hyderabad’, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 41: 2 (June 2021), pp. 217-31.