The Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History
Awarded Annually • $1,500 Prize
About the Michael H. Hunt Prize
The purpose of the award is to recognize historians whose scholarship produces fresh perspectives on international or global history. The prize of $1,500 is awarded annually to an author of any nationality for their first book on any aspect of international or global history since the mid-19th century that makes substantial use of historical records in more than one language.
Eligibility
The prize is to be awarded for a first book (including all previously authored or co-authored books but excluding edited volumes). The book must be an international or global history that contributes to scholarship in the field based on substantial use of historical records in more than one language. General surveys, autobiographies, editions of essays and documents, and works that represent social science disciplines other than history are not eligible.
Procedures
Books may be nominated by the author, the publisher, or any member of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. A nominating letter explaining why the book deserves consideration must accompany each entry in the competition. Books will be judged primarily in regard to their contributions to scholarship, their use of primary sources, and the quality of their academic writing.
Submission Procedures
To nominate a book published in 2026 for the 2027 prize, please follow the submission guidelines outlined below.
Required Materials
- Letter of nomination - Three physical copies of the book (or page proofs)
Submission Destinations
Email nomination letters to Pierre Asselin and mail copies of the book to the committee members listed below.
Deadline
Books may be sent at anytime but must arrive by February 1, 2027.
Mailing Destinations for Committee Members
Pierre AsselinSan Diego State University Department of History 5500 Campanile Dr San Diego, CA 92182-6050
Amy OffnerDepartment of History College Hall 208 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6379
2026R. Joseph Parrott, Dream the Size of Freedom: How African Liberation Mobilized New Left Internationalism
2025Mateo Jarquín, The Sandinista Revolution: A Global Latin American History
2024Mattias Fibiger, Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World
2023Victor Seow, Carbon Technology: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
2022Roberto Saba, American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation
2021Toshihiro Higuchi, Political Fallout: Nuclear Weapons Testing and the Making of A Global Environmental Crisis
2020Giuliana Chamedes, A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe;Amy C. Offner, Sorting out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
