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Past Winners

2021

Martin Summers

Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital

Oxford University Press, 2019

2020

Susan Lanzoni

Empathy: A History

Yale University Press, 2018

2019

Theodore M. Porter

Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity

Princeton University Press, 2018

2018

Maarten Derksen

Histories of Human Engineering: Tact and Technology

Cambridge University Press, 2017

2017

Susanna L. Blumenthal

Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Culture

Harvard University Press, 2016

2016

Susan D. Lamb

The Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry

Johns Hopkins University Press

2014

Fernado Vidal

Sciences of the Soul

University of Chicago Press, 2011

2012

Richard Noll

American Madness

Harvard University Press, 2011

2010

John Carson

The Measure of Merit

Princeton University Press, 2006

2008

Sarah Igo

The Averaged American

Harvard University Press, 2008

2006

Paul Lerner

Hysterical Men

Cornell University Press, 2003

2004

Jeffrey Sklansky

The Soul\'s Economy

The University of North Carolina Press, 2002