MSA First Book Award 2025
We are happy to announce the 12 shortlisted books for the 2025 MSA First Book Award!
The competition this year is very strong! Thirty-five (35) great monographs were nominated for the Award. The winner will be announced by mid-April. The presentation of the best first book in memory studies published in 2023 and 2024 will be part of the program at the MSA Conference in Prague in July this year.
Sakiru Adebayo, Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa. English, 2023, University of Michigan, 978-0-472-05623-1, 183.
Katrin Antweiler, Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums. English, 2023, De Gruyter, 978-311-078797-9, 252.
Clara de Massol de Rebetz, Remember the Anthropocene: Memorials beyond the human. English, 2023, Palgrave MacMillan – Memory Studies Series, 978-3-031-50368-9, 282.
Dr. Antony Kalashnikov, Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time. English, 2023, Cornell University Press, 9781501768637, xii+202pp..
Anna Koch, Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust. English, 2023, Indiana University Press, 9780253066961, 318 Pages.
Kate Korycki, Weaponizing the Past: Collective Memory and Jews, Poles and Communists in 21st Century Poland. English, 2023, Berghahn Books, 978-1-80539-050-3, 232.
Brydie Kosmina, Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism. English, 2023, Palgrave Macmillan, 978-3-031-25291-4, 262.
Bareez Majid, Towards an understanding of Kurdistani Memory. English, 2023, Palgrave Macmillan, 978-3-03137-513-2, 308.
David Mwambari, Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda. English, 2023, Oxford University Press, 9780190942304, 336.
Sahra Rausch, Emotionen in der postkolonialen Erinnerungspolitik. Deutschland und Frankreich seit den 1990er Jahren. German, 2024, De Gruyter, 9783111018485, 512.
Chana Teeger, Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools. English, 2024, Columbia University Press, 9780231213417, 206.
Hajar Yazdiha, The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. English, 2023, Princeton University Press, 9780691246475, 286.
Price Committee
Ruramisai Charumbira (Western University)
Jelena Đureinović (University of Vienna)
Astrid Erll (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
Rosanne Kennedy (The Australian National University)
Daniel Levy (Stony Brook University)
Jie-Hyun Lim (Sogang University)
Jocelyn S. Martin (Catholic University of the West)
Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt University)
Avishek Parui (Indian Institute of Technology)
Susannah Radstone (The University of Melbourne)
Alicia Noemi Salomone (University of Chile)
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska (German Historical Institute, Warsaw)
Ulla Savolainen (University of Helsinki)
Tea Sindbæk Andersen (University of Copenhagen)
Hanna Teichler (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Jay Winter (Yale University)
Jenny Wüstenberg (Nottingham Trent University)