Theodore Saloutos Book Award
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society invites submissions for the Theodore Saloutos Book Award. The $2,000 award is presented annually at the IEHS banquet during the OAH for the book judged best on any aspect of the immigration history of the United States.
“Immigration history” is defined as the movement of peoples from other countries to the United States, of the repatriation movements of immigrants, and of the consequences of these migrations, both for the United States and the countries of origin.
Eligibility
To be eligible for this year’s award, a book must be copyrighted in 2023, must be based on substantial primary research, and must present a major new scholarly interpretation.
Edited collections or multi-authored books are not eligible. A book may be nominated by its author, the publisher, a member of the prize committee, or a member of the Society.
Inquiries and nominations should be submitted to saloutosaward@iehs.org, which will reach all committee members.
Committee Members
A hard copy of the book will be submitted to each committee member at the following addresses by the deadline: December 31, 2023.
Dr. Sarah Coleman
Department of History
Taylor Murphy Hall
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666
Dr. S. Deborah Kang
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
Nau Hall – South Lawn
Charlottesville, VA 22904
Dr. Elliott Young
2431 SE Sherman St,
Portland, OR, 97214
Previous Recipients
2023
Moon-Ho Jung
Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State.
(University of California Press, 2022).
2023 – Honorable Mention
María Cristina García
State of Disaster: The Failure of U.S. Migration Policy in an Age of Climate Change.
(University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
Brian D. Behnken
Borders of Violence and Justice: Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and Law Enforcement in the Southwest, 1835-1935.
(University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
2022
Sarah Coleman
The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America,
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021).
2022 – Honorable Mention
Cian T. McMahon
The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine.
(New York: New York University Press, 2021).
2021
Uzma Quraishi
Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War.
(Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2020).
2021 – Honorable Mention
Adam Goodman
The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Expelling Immigrants.
(Princeton University Press).
2020
Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean.
(Princeton University Press, 2019).
2020 – Honorable Mention
Benjamin Francis-Fallo
Rise of the Latino Vote: A History.
(Harvard University Press, 2019).
2019
Ana Raquel Minian
Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration.
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press).
2019 – Honorable Mention
Simeon Man,
Soldiering Through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific.
(Oakland: University of California Press, 2018).
2018
S. Deborah Kang
The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954.
(Oxford University Press, 2017).
2018 – Honorable Mention
Julian Lim
Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
(University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
2017
Mireya Loza
Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom.
(University of North Carolina Press).
2016
Madeline Y. Hsu
The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril became the Model Minority.
(Princeton University Press).
2016 – Honorable Mention
Julie Weise
Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the US South Since 1910.
(University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
2015
Ana Elizabeth Rosas
Abrazando El Espiritu: Bracero Families Confront the US-Mexico Border.
(University of California Press).
2015 – Honorable Mention
David Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martin
Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas.
(Harvard University Press, 2014).
Ellen Wu
The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.
(Princeton University Press, 2013).
2014
Vivek Bald
Bengali Harlem: Exploring the Lost Histories of South Asian America.
(Harvard University Press, 2013).
2013
Donna R. Gabaccia
Foreign Relations: Global Perspectives on American Immigration
(Princeton University Press, 2012)
2012
Andrea Geiger
Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders. 1885-1928.
(Yale University Press).
2011
(Two prizes were awarded in 2011)
Lorrin Thomas
Puerto Rican Citizen: History and Political Identity in Twentieth-Century New York City.
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)
Jennifer Guglielmo
Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945.
(University of North Carolina Press, 2010).
2010
Anna Pegler Gordon
In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy.
(The University of California Press, 2009).
2009
Allyson Varzally
Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955.
(The University of California Press, 2008)
2008
Elliott Barkan
From All Points: America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1952.
(Princeton University Press, 2007).
2007
Eric Goldstein
The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and the American Identity.
(Princeton University Press, 2006)
2006
Eiichiro Azuma
Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America.
(Oxford University Press, 2005)
2005
Mae Ngai
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
(Princeton University Press, 2004).
2004
Erika Lee
At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943.
(University of North Carolina Press, 2003).
2003
Susan Greenbaum
More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa.
(University Press of Florida, 2002).
2002
Gary Gerstle
American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century.
(Princeton University Press, 2001).
2001
Nancy Foner
From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration.
(Yale University Press, 2000)
2000
Alison Games
Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World.
(Harvard University Press, 1999)
1999
Andrew Gyory
Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.
(University of North Carolina Press, 1998).
1998
Jon Gjerde
The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917.
(University of North Carolina Press, 1997).
1997
Ewa Morawska
Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940.
(Princeton University Press, 1996).
1996
Lucy E. Salyer
Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law.
(University of North Carolina Press, 1995).
1995
Alan M. Kraut
Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace.”
(Basic Books, 1994).
1994
George J. Sanchez
Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945.
(Oxford University Press, 1993).
1993
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century.
(Louisiana State University Press 1992).
1992
Lawrence H. Fuchs
The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture.
(University Press of New England, 1991).
1991
Lawrence H. Fuchs
Arthur M. and Usha M. Helweg, An Immigrant Success Story: East Indians in America.
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
1990
David Hackett Fischer
Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America.
(Oxford University Press, 1989).
1989
Robert C. Ostergren
(University of Wisconsin Press, 1988).
1988
Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta
The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985.
(University of Illinois Press, 1987).
1987
Bernard Bailyn
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution.
(Alfred A. Knopf, 1986).
1986
Jon Gjerde
From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway to the Upper Midwest.
(Cambridge University Press, 1985).
Kerby A. Miller, Emigrants and Exiles and the Irish Exodus to North America. Oxford University Press.
1985
David S. Wyman
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945.
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1984).
1984
Jon Butler
The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society.
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983)