An award for the best book published by an AGSS member during the previous year was awarded by the AGSS 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 [usually held in the Fall]. 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 no later than 15 June of the year for which the book is being considered. In 2025, books published between 2024 and June 2025 will be considered.
Award Committee
Committee Chair: Brain Parkinson
Brian Parkinson
Professor of History
Business, History, and Political Science Building — Room 312
Georgia Southwestern State University
800 Georgia Southwestern State University Drive
Americus, GA 31709
Committee Member: Sabella Abidde
Committee Member: Michael Hall
Recent Award Winners
2022: Sandya Hewammanne. Restitching Identities in Rural Sri Lanka: Gender, Neoliberalism, and the Politics of Contentment.
2023: Salvador Santino F. Regilme, Jr. Aid Imperium: United States Foreign Policy and Human Rights in Post-Cold War Southeast Asia, University of Michigan Press.
2024: Joseph Godlewski. The Architecture of Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements.
2025: Patrick Quinton-Brown. Intervention Before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy.
