IAMHIST prizes

The IAMHIST-Michael Nelson Prize and IAMHIST-Christine Whittaker Prize for a work in media and history is a biennial prize awarded for the book, radio or television programme or series, film, DVD, CD-ROM, or URL making the best contribution on the subject of media and history, which has been published or shown in the preceding two years.

The prizes are dedicated to Michael Nelson and to Christine Whittaker, both of whose passion for media and journalism inspired IAMHIST throughout the years.

Two awards are made.  The first, a prize of $1000, will be for the best contribution by a book (Michael Nelson Prize); the second, a prize of $1000 will be for the best contribution by a (multi) media contribution: this second prize will consider media such as films, CD-ROMs, and URLs separately from print media (Christine Whittaker Prize).

For the most recent call for submissions, and rules for the prizes, please visit here.

David H. Culbert was a diligent media historian. More than anything else, his scholarly interest was the research on the history of propaganda, information policy and mass persuasion. David was an active IAMHIST Council member and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television from 1992 to 2012.

The book prize is awarded on behalf of the Culbert family for outstanding works looking at the history of ways in which media, public opinion, politics and diplomacy interact. It is awarded to monographs and anthologies on these topics that were published within the last four years in English. The $2,500 prize is awarded biennially. The prize has been established by an endowment from Lubna Culbert.

For the most recent call for submissions, and rules for the prize, please visit here.

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. Visit details of current and past winners here.