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California History is pleased to announce the winner of the Richard J. Orsi prize for the best article published in the journal in 2022. The committee unanimously selected Warren C. Wood's “S. An-Sky’s The Dybbuk and the Process of Jewish American Identity in 1920s San Francisco” (California Histor

Congratulations to the Journal of Autoethnography which received the Best New Journal Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) at this past weekend's annual meeting of the Modern Language Association. The CELJ is an organization of editors of scholarly journals in all disciplines

California History is pleased to announce that Amanda Marie Martinez’s “Suburban Cowboy: Country Music, Punk, and the Struggle over Space in Orange County, 1978–1981” (California History, vol. 98, no. 1, 83-97) has won the journal's Richard J. Orsi prize, for the best article published in California

Nineteenth Annual Thomas Robbins AwardsFor Excellence in the Study of New Religious MovementsThe co-general editors of Nova Religio are pleased to announce the winners of the Nineteenth Annual Thomas Robbins Award for Excellence in the Study of New Religious Movements. The awards were establishe

'Tis the season for academic conferences when scholarly societies announce their annual awards. We are delighted to share the news that both Pacific Historical Review (PHR) and the Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS) have recently been honored with awards from the Western History Association (WH

We're pleased to announce that Dr. Diane M.T. North's article, "California and the 1918–1920 Influenza Pandemic," published in California History (Vol. 97, No. 3, August [Fall] 2020), has won the Western Association of Women Historians' (WAWH) Judith Lee Ridge prize for the best history article publ

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced category winners for the 2021 Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards honoring the best scholarly works published in 2020. A panel of 23 judges selected the winners from a total of 130 Finalists from an overall pool of 595 entri

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced the finalists for the 45th annual Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Awards, honoring scholarly works published in 2020. UC Press is delighted to have two publications listed among the finalists.Latin American and Latinx V

California History is pleased to announce that David Tamayo’s “The Perilous Borderlands: The Role of Anti-Japanese Hysteria in American Efforts to Annex Baja California, 1900–1942” (California History, vol. 97, no. 2, 59–87) has won the journal's inaugural Richard J. Orsi prize, for the best article

As part of our #VirtualAHA promotions, offered in conjunction with the 2021 virtual conference of the American Historical Association, Pacific Historical Review invites you to read the following award-winning scholarship published within its pages during the past year. These articles will be free to