NASSH - Book Award

Organization: North American Society for Sports History

The North American Society for Sport History presents two book awards each year to promote and honor outstanding research and writing in the field of sports history. Awards are given for distinguished books written in English on any aspect of sport history, without chronological or geographic restriction. The NASSH Book Award Committee is currently calling for suitable entries for the 2017 Awards in the following categories:Monographs: biographies, monographs, and works of synthesis and interpretationEdited Collections: edited collections of scholarly papersEligibility: To be eligible, books must be scholarly, focus on an aspect of sports history, be published in 2016 (imprint date) and be written in English. There is no chronological or geographic restriction.Prize: The Award shall be a cash prize of $750 for the anthology and $1000 for the monograph. The publisher will also be notified of the award. To enter, please send one copy of each entry to each member of the Book Award Committee at the addresses listed below. The books should be postmarked before 27 January 2017.

Award Recipients