2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award Announcement

Thursday, May 2, 2024 | 5:00 PM EDT

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. The finalists, five history titles and five multimodal works, were selected by a distinguished panel of scholars, librarians, digital humanities experts, and accessibility specialists. Supported by Arcadia, these prizes recognize and reward the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open humanities books published from 2017 to 2022.

The prizes, among the largest for scholarly books, will be presented at the ACLS Annual Meeting. The event will also be livestreamed.

Please register below to attend virtually.

The five finalists in the history category are:

Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk (Duke University Press, 2022)
Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions by Susan Burch (University of North Carolina Press, 2021)
Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London by Simon P. Newman (University of London Press, 2022)
The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korea by Hwisang Cho (University of Washington Press, 2020)
Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India by Mytheli Sreenivas (University of Washington Press, 2021)

The five finalists in the multimodal, born-digital category are:

As I Remember It: Teachings (ʔəms tɑʔɑw) from the Life of a Sliammon Elder by Elsie Paul with Davis McKenzie, Paige Raibmon, and Harmony Johnson (University of British Columbia Press / RavenSpace, 2019)
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork by Whitney Trettien (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)
i used to love to dream by A.D. Carson (University of Michigan Press, 2020)
Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World by Massimo Riva (Stanford University Press, 2022)
Vidding: A History by Francesca Coppa (University of Michigan Press, 2022)