The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize is awarded for the best dissertation in the economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada completed during the preceding year. The 2024 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association’s annual meeting in Sacramento in September 2024.

Scholars submitting a dissertation for the dissertation and prizes for the 2024 Economic History Association meeting may not submit a proposal for the general program that is part of or derived from the dissertation.

Eligibility: Those who received their Ph.D. between June 1, 2023 and May 30, 2024 are eligible and invited to submit their dissertation for consideration. All candidates for these prizes must be members of the Economic History Association. Dissertations submitted for consideration must be in English. Candidates graduating from the judge’ departments (George Mason University) will be eligible for the 2024-25 prize instead, to avoid conflicts of interest. Submission of a dissertation implies that candidates are prepared to attend the 2024 meetings in Sacramento. Presentation of a dissertation summary is required by all finalists. This will be done in front of a joint session of the association (i.e., the entire membership). Finalists will also have the opportunity to write up a summary of their work in the Journal of Economic History.

The two judges this year for the Prize are Vincent Geloso and Patrick Wallis.

Submissions: To be considered for these prizes, completed dissertations must be submitted via the google forms link below before May 31, 2024. Dissertations must include a page with the names of the dissertation committee members. The version of the dissertation submitted for consideration for the prize must be the same one that was submitted for the degree. It may not be a later version. Submissions of more than 5MB should prepare to send a download link rather than an attachment. Notices announcing the selection of finalists will be sent to all candidates by July 15, 2024.

Please submit dissertation via this platform: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf-uO8aOmhijq2UFR6MCbPHeJj34LnQutWRDCGkN15P78CO6w/viewform?usp=sf_link

The above link requires a Google Account. If you do not have such an account, please submit your dissertation, an abstract of the dissertation, your name, your degree-awarding institution to vgeloso@gmu.edu with the subject heading “Gerschenkron Submission by NAME: Dissertation Title”.