joint winners: Ferdinand Goehde, for "A new military history of the Italian Risorgimento and Anti-Risorgimento: the case of ‘transnational soldiers’”. Stephen C. Bruner, for "Conflicting obituaries: the Abyssinian ‘outlaw’ Debeb as treacherous bandit and romantic hero in late nineteenth-century Italian imagination”.
The winner of the 2018 prize, announced at the ASMI conference in November, is Caterina Scalvedi, of the University of Illinois at Chicago, for her essay 'Catholic Missionaries in Italian Somalia: Baptisms, Education, and the "Problem" of Meticci (1924–1930)'. The deadline for submissions for the 2019 prize is 31 July.
Mahidol Thai House Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia (RILCA) Mahidol University, Salaya, Thailand 28-29 June 2018
ASMI 2018 - Conference
University of Warwick 21 – 22 June, 2018
Joint winners of the 2017 prize, announced at the ASMI conference in December, were Sarah Culhane, formerly of the University of Bristol, for her essay ‘Locating the audience within the pages of a fan magazine: the audience-star relation as told through Hollywood (1945–1953)’, and Glauco Schettini, of Fordham University, for his essay 'Building the Third Rome: The New District in Prati di Castello, 1870–95'. The deadline for submissions for the 2018 prize is 31 July.