Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East
Book Awards

The SSCLE is pleased to announce the launch of two book awards, Best First Book, and Best Book, to run on alternate years. The winners will each receive a sum of £250.

We are opening nominations now for the Ronnie Ellenblum Best First Book with the aim of making the award at the summer conference, 27 June - 1 July 2022. 

With that in mind, we are asking that entries be submitted by 30 April 2022 to sscle123@gmail.com

The Best First Book Prize is named in memory of Professor Ronnie Ellenblum (1952-2021), a recognition of his immensely innovative academic work and his boundless support of young scholars.

In the first instance, eligible languages will reflect those of the SSCLE's journal Crusades: English, French, Italian, Spanish and German. Each entry must be accompanied by a nomination of up to 300 words indicating why the book stands as an important contribution to the field. The author or publisher must be in a position to send the committee a PDF of the published text by the closing date. In this first award of the prize, nominations can come from either the author, the publisher, or another researcher. Books with a publication date of 2019, 2020, 2021 are eligible. 

 

Cecilia Gaposchkin (Dartmouth College) has kindly agreed to chair the 5-person judging panel consisting of herself, Jessalynn Bird (Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame), Suleiman Mourad (Smith College), Christoph Maier (University of Zürich) and Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway, University of London). A different panel, chaired by Cecilia Gaposchkin, will decide the Best Book award.