Past Guittard Book Award Recipients

2020 Award

Dr. Eric C. Rust, Professor of History at Baylor, won the 2020 Guittard Book Award for U-Boat Commander Oskar Kusch: Anatomy of a Nazi-Era Betrayal and Judicial Murder (US Naval Institute Press, 2020). 

 

 

2019 Award

Dr. Daniel J. Watkins, Assistant Professor of History at Baylor, won the 2019 Guittard Book Award for Belief and Politics in Enlightenment France: Essays in Honor of Dale K. Van Kley, edited by Daniel J. Watkins and Mita Choudhury (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool University Press, 2019).

 

2018 Award

No award given this year.

 

2017 Award

Dr. Thomas S. Kidd, Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor, won the 2017 Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship for his book, Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father (Yale University Press, 2017).

 

2016 Award

Dr. Andrea L. Turpin, Associate Professor of History at Baylor, won the 4th annual Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship for her book, A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917 (Cornell University Press, 2016).

 

2015 Award

Dr. Kenna Lang Archer, Angelo State University, won the 3rd annual Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship for her book, Unruly Waters: A Social and Environmental History of the Brazos River (University of New Mexico Press, 2015).

 

2014 Award

Dr. Julie K. deGraffenried, Baylor University, won the 2nd annual Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship for her book, Sacrificing Childhood: Children and the Soviet State in the Great Patriotic War (University Press of Kansas, 2014).

 

2013 Award

Dr. Nancy Beck Young, University of Houston, won the first annual Guittard Book Award for Historical Scholarship for her book, Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II (University Press of Kansas, 2013).