Martin A. Klein Prize

The Martin A. Klein Prize is awarded by the American Historical Association for scholarship in African history published in the English language. It is named for Martin A. Klein.[1]

List of recipients of the Martin A. Klein Prize

  • 2010, Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in 19th-Century Western Africa, Cambridge University Press[2]
  • 2011, Jonathon Glassman, War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar, Indiana University Press
  • 2012, Gabrielle Hecht, Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade, MIT Press & Wits University Press
  • 2012, Bruce S. Hall, A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960, Cambridge University Press
  • 2013, Derek R. Peterson, Ethnic Patriotism and the East Africa Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935–1972, Cambridge University Press
  • 2014, Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman, Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and Its Legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007, Ohio University Press[3]
  • 2015, Frederick Cooper, Citizenship Between Empire and Nation: Remaking France and French Africa, 1945–60, Princeton University Press[4]
  • 2016, Nancy Hunt, A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo, Duke University Press[5]
  • 2017, Mustafah Dhada, The Portuguese Massacre of Wiriyamu in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-2013, Bloomsbury Press
  • 2018, Kenda Mutongi, Matatu: A History of Popular Transportation in Nairobi, University of Chicago Press[6]
  • 2019, Michael A. Gomez, African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa, Princeton University Press
  • 2020, Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa After Independence, Cambridge University Press[7]
  • 2021, Jacob Dlamini, Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park, Ohio University Press[8][9]
  • 2022, Judith A. Byfield, The Great Upheaval: Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria, Ohio University Press[10]
  • 2023, Paul S. Landau, Spear: Mandela and the Revolutionaries, Ohio University Press[11]
  • 2024, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship, Cambridge University Press[12]
  • 2025, Admire Mseba, Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560–1960, Ohio University Press[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Martin A. Klein Prize in African History". American Historical Association.
  2. ↑ Hanson, John H. (December 2011). "Ghislaine Lydon. On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xxviii + 486 pp. Maps. Bibliography. Index, Notes. $95.00. Cloth". African Studies Review. 54 (3): 189–191. doi:10.1353/arw.2011.0053. ISSN 0002-0206.
  3. ↑ Penvenne, Jeanne Marie (May 2016). "Dams, Displacement, and the Delusion of Development: Cahora Bassa and its legacies in Mozambique, 1965–2007 by Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S. Isaacman (review)". Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, Volume 86, Number 2 (review). Retrieved May 11, 2026 – via Project MUSE.
  4. ↑ Mann, Gregory; Lindsay, Lisa A. (June 2020). "Introduction: Frederick Cooper and the Historiography of Africa". History in Africa. 47: 51–53. doi:10.1017/hia.2019.23. ISSN 0361-5413.
  5. ↑ "Nancy Rose Hunt reçoit le prix Martin A. Klein" [Nancy Rose Hunt receives the Martin A. Klein Award]. Institut d'études avancées de Paris (IEA) (Paris Institute for Advanced Study).
  6. ↑ "Kenda Mutongi is awarded the AHA 2018 Martin A. Klein Prize". MIT History. October 16, 2018.
  7. ↑ "AHA awards Martin A. Klein Prize to Abena Dove Osseo-Asare for Distinguished Scholarship in African History". University of Texas at Austin. October 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ ""Safari Nation" by Jacob Dlamini awarded two book prizes". Department of History, Princeton University. October 19, 2021.
  9. ↑ Dlamini, Jacob (October 19, 2021). "Safari Nation by Jacob Dlamini – winner of the 2021 UJ Prize". News24. Retrieved May 11, 2026.
  10. ↑ "Professor's book wins American Historical Association prize". Department of History, Cornell University.
  11. ↑ "Paul Landau Wins the Martin A. Klein Prize in African History". Department of History, University of Maryland.
  12. ↑ "Professor Rachel Jean-Baptiste receives The Martin A. Klein Prize in African History from AHA". Department of History, Stanford University. October 21, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Ohio University Press books garner top honors in African studies". Ohio Today. December 4, 2025.
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