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Constance Blackwell Prize 2022
The ISIH is delighted to announce that the winner of the inaugural Constance Blackwell Prize is Jessica Patterson, for her book Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2021). The judges were deeply impressed by the originality, breadth, and rigour of Jessica Patterson’s book. Patterson shows, with…
Charles Schmitt Prize 2023
As the result of generous donations from an anonymous donor and our publisher (Taylor & Francis), the International Society for Intellectual History is offering, on an annual basis, a prize to honour the contribution of Charles B. Schmitt (1933-1986) to intellectual history. The prize is £250, plus £100 worth of Routledge books, and a year’s free membership of the ISIH with a subscription to the…
Constance Blackwell Prize Shortlist
We are thrilled to announce the shortlist for our inaugural Constance Blackwell Prize, named in honour of our founder. The prize is awarded biennially to the best first monograph in intellectual history (broadly construed) published in the previous two years. The titles on the shortlist are, in alphabetical order by authors’ surnames: Jessica Patterson, Religion, Enlightenment…
2022 Charles Schmitt Prize Winner
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Charles Schmitt prize for 2022 is Felix Schlichter of the University of Cambridge, for his essay ‘Flavius Josephus and Early Modern Biblical Chronology’. The winning essay will be published in Intellectual History Review. The quality of top submissions was particularly high this year. So the…