ICHTH–INTH BOOK PRIZES
FOR THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF HISTORIOGRAPHY

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.

LAUREATES

2026 ICHTH – INTH Best Book Prize

• Award: Henning Trüper, Unsterbliche Werte: Über Historizität und Historisierung (Wallstein Verlag)

• Shortlisted: Frank Ankersmit, Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past (Columbia University Press)

• Shortlisted: Jaume Aurell,What is a Classic in History? The Making of a Historical Canon (Cambridge University Press)

• Shortlisted: Marnie Hughes-Warrington (with Anne Martin and Lewis Yarlupurka O’Brien), Artificial Historians (Routledge)

2026 ICHTH – INTH Best First Book Prize

• Award: Natan Elgabsi, Existential Ethics and the Philosophy of Historiography: Transgenerational Life and Memory in Literary Culture (Routledge and Amsterdam University Press)

• Shortlisted: Michal Hubálek, Dissolving Naturalism and Historicism Into Each Other (Springer)

• Shortlisted: Marcin Moskalewicz, Hannah Arendt’s Ambiguous Storytelling: Temporality, Judgment, and the Philosophy of History (Bloomsbury Academic)

2024 ICHTH – INTH Best Book Prize

• Award: Jörg van Norden, Verlust der Vergangenheit: Historische Erkenntnis und Materialität zwischen Wiedererkennen und Befremden (Frankfurt am Mainz: Wochenschau Verlag, 2022).

• Shortlisted: Christophe Bouton, L’Accélération de l’histoire: Des Lumières à l’anthropocène (Paris: Seuil, 2022).

• Shortlisted: Gunnar Schumann, Historical Explanation: An Anti-Causalist Approach (London: Routledge, 2023).

2024 ICHTH – INTH Best First Book Prize

• Award: Mariana Imaz-Sheinbaum, Historical Narratives: Constructable, Evaluable, Inevitable (New York and London: Routledge, 2024).

2022 ICHTH – INTH Book Prize

• Award: Hans Ruin, Being with the Dead: Burial, Ancestral Policies and the Roots of Historical Consciousness (Stanford University Press, 2018).

• Award: Zoltán Boldizsár Simon, History in Times of Unprecedented Change: A Theory for the 21st Century (Bloomsbury, 2019).

2018 ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize

• Award: Ritwik Bhattacharyya, Homo Ahistoricus: Disavowal of History in Colonial South Asian Writing.

• Honorable mention: Alexander Maar, Cause, Chance, Determinism and Counterfactuals in History.

2016 ICHTH Book Prize

• Award: Jouni Matti Kuukkanen, Postnarrativist Philosophy of Historiography (Palgrave 2015).

2013 ICHTH Doctoral Dissertation Prize

• Award: Berber Bevernage, History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice (Routledge, 2013).