The Chester Penn Higby Prize for 2020

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Previous articleNext article FreeThe Chester Penn Higby Prize for 2020PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreChester Penn Higby (1886–1966) was a member of the history department at the University of Wisconsin from 1927 to 1956. He was one of the founders of The Journal of Modern History in 1927 and served as the first president of the Modern European History Section of the American Historical Association.In 1956, when Professor Higby retired from the history faculty at Wisconsin, his former graduate students established a perpetual trust fund in his honor. The purpose of the fund is to provide, every other year, a cash prize for the best article appearing in The Journal of Modern History during the preceding two-year period. A board selected by the Executive Committee of the Modern European History Section chooses the winner, announcing its decision at the January AHA meeting.The winner of the Higby Prize for 2020 is James Chappel for his article “Old Volk: Aging in 1950s Germany, East and West” (December 2018).The editors of The Journal of Modern History extend their warmest congratulations to the winner.Past Winners of the Higby Prize1956John C. Cairns, “Great Britain and the Fall of France: A Study in Allied Disunity,” December 1955.1958Richard Glover, “Arms and the British Diplomat in the French Revolutionary Era,” September 1957.1960Amos E. Simpson, “The Struggle for Control of the German Economy, 1936–37,” March 1959.1962Raymond Grew, “How Success Spoiled the Risorgimento,” September 1962.Honorable mention: Andreas Dorpalen, “Historiography as History: The Work of Gerhard Ritter,” March 1962.1964Trevor Wilson, “The Coupon and the British General Election of 1918,” March 1964.Honorable mention: Henry R. Winkler, “Sir Lewis Namier,” March 1963.1966Gordon A. Craig, “The World War I Alliance of the Central Powers in Retrospect: The Military Cohesion of the Alliance,” September 1965.1968Richard Glover, “The French Fleet, 1807–1814: Britain’s Problem and Madison’s Opportunity,” September 1967.1970Joachim Remak, “The Healthy Invalid: How Doomed the Habsburg Empire?,” June 1969.Honorable mention: Peter Amann, “A Journée in the Making: May 15, 1848,” March 1970.1972Jerome Blum, “The Internal Structure and Polity of the European Village Community from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Century,” December 1971.Honorable mention: E. William Monter, “Witchcraft in Geneva, 1537–1662,” June 1971.1974J. H. Hexter, “Fernand Braudel and the Monde Braudellien … ,” December 1972.1976Heinrich August Winkler, “From Social Protectionism to National Socialism: The German Small-Business Movement in Comparative Perspective,” March 1976.Honorable mention: Howard V. Evans, “The Nootka Sound Controversy in Anglo-French Diplomacy—1790,” December 1974.1978Julius Kirshner and Anthony Molho, “The Dowry Fund and the Marriage Market in Early Quattrocento Florence,” September 1978.Honorable mention: J. H. Hexter, “Power Struggle, Parliament, and Liberty in Early Stuart England,” March 1978.1980Roy A. Austensen, “Austria and the ‘Struggle for Supremacy in Germany,’ 1848–1864,” June 1980.Honorable mention: Allan Megill, “Foucault, Structuralism, and the Ends of History,” September 1979.1982Jan Goldstein, “The Hysteria Diagnosis and the Politics of Anticlericalism in Late Nineteenth-Century France,” June 1982.Honorable mention: Thomas W. Laqueur, “The Queen Caroline Affair: Politics as Art in the Reign of George IV,” September 1982.1984Timothy Tackett, “The West in France in 1789: The Religious Factor in the Origins of the Counterrevolution,” December 1982.1986Hilton Lewis Root, “Challenging the Seigneurie: Community and Contention on the Eve of the French Revolution,” December 1985.Honorable mention: Robert S. Edelman, “Rural Proletarians and Peasant Disturbances: The Right Bank Ukraine in the Revolution of 1905,” June 1985.1988 (Co-winners)Laura Engelstein, “Gender and the Juridical Subject: Prostitution and Rape in Nineteenth-Century Russian Criminal Codes,” September 1988.Randall McGowen, “The Body and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century England,” December 1987.1990 (Co-winners)Victoria de Grazia, “Mass Culture and Sovereignty: The American Challenge to European Cinemas, 1920–1960,” March 1989.Eric D. Weitz, “State Power, Class Fragmentation, and the Shaping of German Communist Politics, 1890–1933,” June 1990.1992Susan Pedersen, “National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy-making,” December 1991.1994Steven Lestition, “Kant and the End of the Enlightenment in Prussia,” March 1993.Honorable mention: Mark Bassin, “Turner, Solov’ev, and the ‘Frontier Hypothesis’: The Nationalist Signification of Open Spaces,” September 1993.1996William W. Hagen, “Before the ‘Final Solution’: Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Anti-Semitism in Interwar Germany and Poland,” June 1996.Honorable mention: Barbara B. Diefendorf, “Give Us Back Our Children: Patriarchal Authority and Parental Consent to Religious Vocations in Early Counter-Reformation France,” June 1996.1998Sarah Maza, “Luxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There Was No Middle-Class Consciousness in Prerevolutionary France,” June 1997.Honorable mention: Ruth Harris, “Possession on the Borders: The ‘Mal de Morzine’ in Nineteenth-Century France,” September 1997.2000Paul Betts, “The Twilight of the Idols: East German Memory and Material Culture,” September 2000.2002Diane P. Koenker, “Fathers against Sons / Sons against Fathers: The Problem of Generations in the Early Soviet Workplace,” December 2001.Honorable Mention: Valerie Kivelson, “Muscovite ‘Citizenship’: Rights without Freedom,” September 2002.2004Daniella Kostroun, “A Formula for Disobedience: Jansenism, Gender, and the Feminist Paradox,” September 2003.2006Matthew Vester, “The Political Autonomy of a Tax Farm: The Nice-Piedmont Gabelle of the Dukes of Savoy, 1535–1580,” December 2004.2008Sarah Abrevaya Stein, “‘Falling into Feathers’: Jews and the Trans-Atlantic Ostrich Feather Trade,” December 2007.2010Michael C. Behrent, “Accidents Happen: François Ewald, the ‘Antirevolutionary’ Foucault, and the Intellectual Politics of the French Welfare State,” September 2010.2012Robert Beachy, “The German Invention of Homosexuality,” December 2010.2014Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, “A State of Exception? Mass Expulsions and the German Constitutional State, 1871–1914,” December 2013.Honorable mention: Rebekka Habermas, “Lost in Translation: Transfer and Nontransfer in the Atakpame Colonial Scandal,” March 2014.2016Debora L. Silverman, “Diasporas of Art: History, the Tervuren Royal Museum for Central Africa, and the Politics of Memory in Belgium, 1885–2014,” September 2015.2018Udi Greenberg, “Protestants, Decolonization, and European Integration, 1885–1961,” June 2017. Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Modern History Volume 93, Number 2June 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/714038 Views: 376 © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.