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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

Uzma Quraishi (Chair), Debbie Kang, Sarah Coleman

A hard copy of the book will be submitted to each committee member at the following addresses by the deadline: December 31, 2023.

Dr. Uzma Quraishi
SHSU Department of History
Box 2239
Huntsville, TX 77341-2239

Dr. S. Deborah Kang
Corcoran Department of History
University of Virginia
Nau Hall – South Lawn
Charlottesville, VA 22904

Dr. Sarah Coleman
Department of History
Taylor Murphy Hall
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666

Previous Recipients

2023
2023 – Honorable Mention

María Cristina García

2022

Sarah Coleman

The Walls Within: The Politics of Immigration in Modern America,

(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021).

2022 – Honorable Mention

Cian T. McMahon

2021

Uzma Quraishi

2021 – Honorable Mention
2020
2020 – Honorable Mention

Benjamin Francis-Fallo

Rise of the Latino Vote: A History.

(Harvard University Press, 2019).

2019 

Ana Raquel Minian

2019 – Honorable Mention

Simeon Man,

2018
2018 – Honorable Mention
2017
2016
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

2015 – Honorable Mention

David Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martin

2014
2013

Donna R. Gabaccia

2012
2011

(Two prizes were awarded in 2011)

2010

Anna Pegler Gordon

2009

Allyson Varzally

2008

Elliott Barkan

2007

Eric Goldstein

2006
2005
2004

Erika Lee

2003

Susan Greenbaum

More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa.

(University Press of Florida, 2002).

2002

Gary Gerstle

2001
2000

Alison Games

1999

Andrew Gyory

Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act.

(University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

1998
1997

Ewa Morawska

1996

Lucy E. Salyer

1995

Alan M. Kraut

Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace.”

(Basic Books, 1994).

1994
1993
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

1989
1988

Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta

1987
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)