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2024 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards

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The ACLS Open Access Book Prize and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Award aspire to generate enthusiasm and prestige for this new mode of publication among humanistic scholars. The prizes further aim to raise public awareness of the resources freely available to anyone with an internet connection.

Winner | History Category

Book cover for Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London, by Simon P. Newman

Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London

by Simon P. Newman
University of London Press, 2022

Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London reveals the hidden stories of enslaved and bound people who attempted to escape from captivity in England’s capital. The book demonstrates that not only were enslaved people present in Restoration London but that White Londoners of this era were intimately involved in the construction of the system of racial slavery, a process that traditionally has been regarded as happening in the colonies rather than the British Isles. An unmissable and important book that seeks to delve into Britain’s colonial past.

A deeply researched, well argued, and effectively presented look into a hidden world within seventeenth-century, that of slaves in the imperial capital. Freedom Seekers offers a new view into slavery’s deeply embedded history in Britain and the Atlantic world, and challenges the field to tackle important and challenging topics that still resonate in the modern world 2024 Judge, History Category

Winner | Multimodal Category

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

Raised by her grandparents on their ancestral territory on the Sunshine Coast, Elsie Paul of the Tla’amin Nation spent most of her childhood surrounded by the ways, teachings, and stories of her people. As her adult life unfolded against a backdrop of colonialism and racism, she drew strength and guidance from the teachings she had learned. In As I Remember It, she shares this traditional knowledge with a new generation in an engaging style and innovative format.

The initial protocol for being a respectful guest forecasts the centrality of community control in this amazing archive. The team that constructed this digital monograph have centered the community while providing a broad and deep intervention into how we understand knowledge. 2024 Judge, Multimodal Category

History Finalists
Black Disability Politics

Book cover for Black Disability Politics by Sami Schalk

by Sami Schalk

Duke University Press, 2022

Committed: Remembering Native Kinship in and beyond Institutions

by Susan Burch

University of North Carolina Press, 2021

The Power of the Brush: Epistolary Practices in Chosŏn Korean

by Hwisang Cho

University of Washington Press, 2020

Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

by Mytheli Sreenivas

University of Washington Press, 2021

Multimodal Finalists
Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork

by Whitney Trettien

University of Minnestoa 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

Reviewers and Judges

  • Kimberly Gauderman, Associate Professor of Latin American History, University of New Mexico
  • Alexandra Hui, Associate Professor, Mississippi State University. Co-editor of Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society
  • Eric Lindquist, History, American Studies, Classics, and Religion Librarian (Librarian III), University of Maryland
  • Abigail Perkiss, Associate Professor of History, Kean University. Co-editor Oral History Review
  • Amy Ransford, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington. Book review editor, Journal of American History
  • Barbara McCaskill, Professor, English, University of Georgia
  • Monique O’Connell, Professor of History, Wake Forest University
  • Gwendolynne Reid, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing & Communication Program, Oxford College, Emory University
  • Stephanie Rosen, Director of Accessibility and Librarian for Disability Studies, University of Michigan
  • Kayla Shipp, Digital Humanities Program Manager, Yale University
  • Judith Allen, Distinguished Professor and Walter Professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Emma Molls, Director, Open Research and Publishing, University of Minnesota Libraries
  • Matthew P. Romaniello, Associate Professor of History, Weber State University
  • Amy Earhart, Associate Professor, English, Texas A&M
  • Mara Wade, Professor, Gender & Women’s Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Joycelyn Wilson, Assistant Professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communications, Georgia Institute of Technology

Advisory Committee

  • Peter Berkery, Executive Director, AUPresses
  • Sam Byrd, Scholarly Publishing Librarian, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
  • Caitlin Carter, HELIOS Program Manager, Open Research Funders Group/SPARC
  • Melanie Dolechek, Executive Director, Society for Scholarly Publishing
  • Jay Dolmage, Professor of English, University of Waterloo
  • Andrea Eastman-Mullins, Founder & CEO, West End Learning
  • Matthew Gold, Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities, Graduate Center, City University of New York
  • Melanie Kowalski, Open Knowledge Licensing Coordinator, Center for Research Libraries
  • Sharla Lair, Senior Strategist, Lyrasis
  • Lisa Macklin, Associate Vice Provost and University Librarian, Emory University Libraries
  • Kate McCready, Visiting Program Officer, Big Ten Academic Alliance
  • Daniel Reid, Executive Director, Whiting Foundation

 

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