The MacMillan Center International Book Prizes

Established in spring 2005, The MacMillan Center awards two prizes for books on international topics, named for two emeritus faculty and former Directors of the Center. Each year, the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize is awarded for the best first book by a member of the Yale ladder faculty, and the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize is awarded for the best book by a member of the Yale ladder faculty. Award recipients receive a research appointment at The MacMillan Center, and a $10,000 research award over two years.

Books published after January 1, 2006, are eligible for consideration this year. Nominations are due at The MacMillan Center, Director's Suite, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, by October 30, 2008.

In May 2007, Maurice Samuels, Professor of French, was awarded the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France (Cornell University Press, 2004). Frank Snowden, Professor of History and Medicine, was awarded the Gustav Rains International Book Prize for The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900-1962 (Yale University Press, 2006).

In 2006, Julia Adams, Professor of Sociology, was awarded the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize for The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe. Keller Easterling, Assistant Professor of Architecture, was awarded the Gustav Ranis International Book Prize for Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades. (2006 release)

In 2005, the prizes were awarded to Mridu Rai, Assistant Professor of History, for Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir (best first book), and Robert Harms, Professor of History, for The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade (best book). (2005 release)