Award Recipients

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ASEH Distinguished Service Award

Year         Recipient 

2006         Hal K. Rothman

2004         Susan Flader

2000         J. Donald Hughes

1997         John Opie

ASEH Distinguished Scholar Award

Year         Recipient

2008         William Cronon

2004         Donald Worster

2001         Alfred W. Crosby

1997         Samuel P. Hays

George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental History

Year           Recipient

2008          Diana K. Davis Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Ohio University Press, 2007.

2007          John Soluri.  Banana Cultures:  Agriculture, Consumption, and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States.  University of Texas Press, 2006.

2006         McCann, James C., Maize and Grace:  Africa's Encounter with a New World Crop: 1500 – 2000.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 2005.

2005         Donahue, Brian, The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004.

2004         Michael Bess, The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

2003         Conevery Bolton Valencius, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. New York: Basic Books, 2002.

2002         Karl Jacoby, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation. University of California Press, 2001.

2002         Louis A. Perez, Jr., Winds of Change: Hurricanes and the Transformation of Nineteenth-Century Cuba. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

2001         Martin Melosi, The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure in America from Colonial Times to the Present. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

2000         Joseph E. Taylor III, Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. University of Washington Press, 1999.

1999         Theodore Catton, Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos and National Parks in Alaska. University of New Mexico Press, 1997.

1999         Ann Vileisis, Discovering the Unknown Landscape: A History of America's Wetlands. Island Press, 1997.

1997         Elliott West, The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains. University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

1997         Warren Dean, With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. University of California Press, 1995.

1995         Matt Cartmill, A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature through History. Harvard University Press, 1993.

1995         John Opie, Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land. University of Nebraska Press, 1993.

1993        William Cronon, Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. W.W. Norton, 1991.

1991         Robert Harms, Games Against Nature: An Eco-Cultural History of the Nunu of Equatorial Africa. Cambridge University Press, 1987.

1989         Arthur F. McEvoy, The Fisherman's Problem: Ecology and Law in the California Fisheries, 1850-1980. Cambridge University Press, 1986.

Leopold-Hidy Prize for Best Article in Environmental History (formerly Aldo Leopold Prize)

Year         Recipient

2008        Mark Carey, "The History of Ice: How Glaciers Became an Endangered Species."  (July 2007 issue).

2007         Richard Judd, "'A Wonderfull Order and Ballance':  Natural History and the Beginnings of Forest Conservation in America, 1730-1830."  (January 2006 issue).

2006         Gregg Mitman, "In Search of Health: Landscape and Disease in American Environmental History,” (April 2005 issue).

2005         Walker, Brett L., "Meiji Modernization, Scientific Agriculture, and the Destruction of Japan's Hokkaido Wolf," 9 (April 2004).

2004         Edmund Russell, "Evolutionary History: Prospectus for a New Field" 8 (April 2003): 204-228.

2003         John Soluri, "Accounting for Taste: Export Bananas, Mass Markets, and Panama Disease" July 2002.

2002         Ramachandra Guha, "The Prehistory of Community Forestry in India" (2001).

2002         Tom McCarthy, "The Coming Wonder?: Foresight and Early Concerns About the Automobile" (2001).

2001         Chad Montrie, "Expedient Environmentalism: Opposition to Coal Surface Mining in Appalachia and the United Mine Workers of America, 1945-1977" (2000).

2000         Tamara Giles-Vernick, "We Wander Like Birds: Migration, Indigeneity, and the Fabrication of Frontiers in the Sangha River Basin of Equatorial Africa" (1999).

1999         Brian Black, "Oil Creek as Industrial Apparatus: Re-creating the Industrial Process Through the Landscape of Pennsylvania's Oil Boom" (1998).

1997         Robert B. Marks, "Commercialization without Capitalism: Processes of Environmental Changes in South China, 1550 ­ 1850" (1996).

1995         Robert MacCameron, "Environmental Change in Colonial New Mexico" (1994).

1993         Christopher V. Hill,  "Water and Power: Riparian Legislation and Agrarian Control in Colonial Bengal" (1990).

Alice Hamilton Prize for Best Article Outside Environmental History

Year         Recipient 

2008         Tyler Priest, "Extraction Not Creation: The History of Offshore Petroleum in the Gulf of Mexico."  Enterprise and Society 8 (June 2007).

2007         Thomas Andrews, "'Made by Toile'?  Tourism, Labor, and the Construction of the Colorado Landscape, 1858-1917."  Journal of American History 92 (December 2005).

2006         Mark Fiege, "The Weedy West:  Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape."  Western Historical Quarterly (Spring 2005).

2005         Linda Nash, "The Fruits of Ill-Health: Pesticides and Workers' Bodies in Post-World War II California." Osiris, 19 (2004): 203-219

2004         Jason W. Moore, "The Modern World-System as Environmental History? Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism," Theory and Society 32: 307-377, 2003

2003         William Boyd, "Making Meat: Science, Technology, and American Poultry Production," Technology and Culture 42 (October 2001), pp. 631-664.

2002         Nancy J. Jacobs, "The Great Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: Discourse on the Ass and the Politics of Class and Grass," The American Historical Review 106:2 (April 2001).

2001         Karl Appuhn, "Inventing Nature: Forests, Forestry, and State Power in Renaissance Venice,"The Journal of Modern History 72 (December 2000).

2000         Ellen Stroud, "Troubled Waters in Ecotopia: Environmental Racism in Portland, Oregon," Radical History Review, 1999.

1999         Matthew W. Klingle, "Plying Atomic Waters: Lauren Donaldson and the 'Fern Lake Concept' of Fisheries Management," Journal of the History of Biology, 1998.

1997         Richard C. Hoffmann, "Economic Development and Aquatic Ecosystems in Medieval Europe," American Historical Review, 1996.

Rachel Carson Prize for Best Dissertation

Year         Recipient

2008         Gwendolyn Verhoff, "The Intractable Atom: The Challenge of Radiation and Radioactive Waste in American Life, 1942 to Present," Washington University in St. Louis.

2007         Joanna Dyl, "Urban Disaster:  An Environmental History of San Francisco After the 1906 Earthquake," Princeton University.

2006         Liza Piper, "Harnessing the Wet West:  Environment and Industrial Order on the Large Lakes of Subarctic Canada, 1921 – 1960," York University, 2005.

2005         Lawrence Culver, "The Island, the Oasis, and the City: Santa Catalina, Palm Springs, Los Angeles, and Southern California's Shaping of American Life and Leisure," University of California, Los Angeles, 2004.

2004         Thomas G. Andrews, "The Road to Ludlow: Work, Environment, and Industrialization, 1870-1915", University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2003.

2003         Jacob A. Tropp, "Roots and Rights in the Transkei: Colonialism, Natural Resources, and Social Change, 1880-1940", University of Minnesota.

2002         Sara B. Pritchard, "Recreating the Rhone: Nature and Technology in France Since World War II.", Stanford University.

2001         Matthew Dominic Evenden, "Fish vs. Power: Remaking Salmon, Science and Society on the Fraser River, 1900-1960." York University.

2000         Marcus H. Hall, "American Nature, Italian Culture: Restoring the Land in Two Continents,",University of Wisconsin Madison.

1999         Christian Warren, "The Silenced Epidemic: A Social History of Lead Poisoning in the United States Since 1900.", Brandeis University.

1997         Mark David Spence, "Dispossessing the Wilderness: The Preservation Ideal, Indian Removal and National Parks." UCLA.

1995         Edmund P. Russell, III, "War on Insects: Warfare, Insecticides and Environmental Changes in the US, 1870 ­ 1945." University of Michigan.

1993        Barbara Liebhardt, "Law, Environment and Social Changes in the Columbia River Basin: The Yakima Indian Nation as a Case Study, 1840 -­ 1933." University of California, Berkeley.