Prize
2026 ICHTH–INTH BOOK PRIZES
FOR THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF HISTORIOGRAPHY
The International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH) and the International Network for Theory of History (INTH) jointly award two prizes, worth 500 euros each, for the Best Book and Best First Book on any aspect of the history and theory of historiography.
Submissions are now open for the 2026 ICHTH–INTH BEST BOOK AND BEST FIRST BOOK (published between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2025)
Submission deadline: 31 December 2025
Download the Call for Applications here. |
LAUREATES
In 2013, the ICHTH established a Prize to honor a scholar whose recent work (book or doctoral dissertation) significantly contributed to the fields of history and theory of historiography.
2024 ICHTH – INTH Best Book Prize
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Shortlisted: Christophe Bouton, L’Accélération de l’histoire: Des Lumières à l’anthropocène (Paris: Seuil, 2022).
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Shortlisted: Gunnar Schumann, Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach (London: Routledge, 2023).
2024 ICHTH – INTH Best First Book Prize
2022 ICHTH – INTH Book Prize
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Award: Hans Ruin, Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Policies and the Roots of Historical Consciousness (Stanford University Press, 2018).
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Award: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, History in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Theory for the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2019).
2018 ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize
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Award: Ritwik Bhattacharyya, Homo Ahistoricus: Disavowal of History in Colonial South Asian Writing.
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Honorable mention: Alexander Maar, Cause, Chance, Determinism and Counterfactuals in History.
2016 ICHTH Book Prize
2013 ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize