A book award for the best book published by a member during the previous year was awarded by the Executive Council for the first time to Cecil B. Currey in 1997 for Victory At Any Cost: The Genius of Viet Nam’s Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Because of Currey’s generous pledge to fund the award for future recipients, the Executive Council named the award in his honor. The winner of the award will receive a plaque and a monetary prize at the annual conference. The award is only open to members of the association. To be considered for the award, please send a cover letter and three copies of the book to the committee chair as soon as the book is published, but no later than 1 June the year following the book’s publication. Thus, books published in 2020 must be sent to the committee by 1 June 2021.
Award Committee 2020 – 2025
Committee Chair – Ryan Alexander [interim]
Department of History SUNY Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Email: ralex006@plattsburgh.
Committee Member – TBA
Committee Member – TBA
Please contact Ryan Alexander if you are interested in serving on this committee.
Previous Award Winners
1998 – John Mukum Mbaku, Institutions and Reform in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective
1999 – Robert Olson, The Kurdish Question and Turkish-Iranian Relations
2000 – Paul J. Magnarella, Justice in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide, its Courts, and the UN Criminal Tribunal
2001 – Olufemi O. Vanghan, Nigerian Chiefs: Traditional Power in Modern Politics, 1890s-1990s
2002 – Paul Rodell, Culture and Customs of Philippines
2003 – William Head, War from Above the Clouds: B-52 Operations During the Second IndoChina War and the Effects of the Air War on Theory and Doctrine
2005 – Toyin Falola, Economic Reforms and Modernization in Nigeria, 1945-1965
2006 – Hanchao Lu, Street Criers: A Cultural History of Chinese Beggars
2007 – Farhad Nomani and Sohrab Behdad, Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter?
2008 – Elizabeth F. Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State
2009 – Huaiyin Li, Village China under Socialism and Reform: A Micro-History, 1948-2008
2010 – Bryan Tilt, The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society
2011– Anja Jetschke, Human Rights and State Security: Indonesia and the Philippines
2012 – Abdul Karim Bangura, African Mathematics: From Bones to Computers
2013 – Michael Arndt, India’s Foreign Policy and Multilateralism and Toyin Falola, Ibaden: Foundation, Growth, and Economic Change, 1830-1860
2014 — Michael Hathaway, Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China
2015 – J. Patrice McSherry, Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music, 1960s-1973