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