The Society for the History of Children and Youth (SHCY) is pleased to call for nominations for the best book in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2023.
Submissions are welcome now and must be mailed to the committee members by February 28, 2024.
If you have questions please contact Friederike.Kind-Kovacs AT mailbox.tu-dresden.de with "Grace Abbott Prize" in the subject line.
Nominations are invited from publishers, editors, and scholars, and self-nominations by authors. Current members of the SHCY award committee and SHCY President and Vice President are ineligible.
The winner will be announced in June 2024.
2024 Grace Abbott Prize Committee members:
Friederike Kind-Kovacs, Chair
Senior Researcher
Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies
TU-Dresden
Tillich-Bau, Helmholtzstraße 6,
01069 Dresden
GERMANY
Janet Borland
Assistant Professor
Department of History
International Christian University
ERB-343, 3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka
Tokyo, 181-8585
JAPAN
Lara Saguisag
Associate Professor
Department of Teaching and Learning
Steinhardt School
New York University
239 Greene St, 6th Floor
New York, NY, 10003
USA