Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures Winners
2020–21
- Alys X. George, Stanford University, for The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the Body (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2020)
- Samuel J. Spinner, Johns Hopkins University, for Jewish Primitivism (Stanford Univ. Press, 2021)
- Honorable mention: Kira Thurman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for Singing Like Germans: Black Musicians in the Land of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms (Cornell Univ. Press, 2021)
2018–19
- Petra S. McGillen, Dartmouth College, for The Fontane Workshop: Manufacturing Realism in the Industrial Age of Print (Bloomsbury, 2019)
- Honorable mention: Matthew H. Birkhold, Ohio State University, Columbus, for Characters before Copyright: The Rise and Regulation of Fan Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Germany (Oxford Univ. Press, 2019)
- Honorable mention: Priscilla Layne, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for White Rebels in Black: German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2018)
2016–17
- Sabine Hake, University of Texas, Austin, for The Proletarian Dream: Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany, 1863–1933 (De Gruyter, 2017)
- B. Venkat Mani, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for Recoding World Literature: Libraries, Print Culture, and Germany’s Pact with Books (Fordham Univ. Press, 2017)
- Honorable mention: Patrizia C. McBride, Cornell University, for The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2016)
2014–15
- John K. Noyes, University of Toronto, for Herder: Aesthetics against Imperialism (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2015)
- Honorable mention: Yuliya Komska, Dartmouth College, for The Icon Curtain: The Cold War’s Quiet Border (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015)
2012–13
- Devin Fore, Princeton University, for Realism after Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature (MIT Press, 2012)
2010–11
- Yasemin Yildiz, University of Illinois, for Beyond the Mother Tongue: The Postmonolingual Condition (Fordham Univ. Press, 2011)
- Honorable mention: Jane O. Newman, University of California, Irvine, for Benjamin’s Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque (Cornell Univ. Press–Cornell Univ. Library, 2011)
2008–09
- Anton Kaes, University of California, Berkeley, for Shell Shock Cinema: Weimar Culture and the Wounds of War (Princeton Univ. Press, 2009)
2006–07
- Carol Poore, Brown University, for Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2007)
2004–05
- Johannes von Moltke, University of Michigan, for No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema (Univ. of California Press, 2005)
2002–03
- John Zilcosky, University of Toronto, for Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing (Palgrave Press, 2003)
- Honorable mention: Jonathan M. Hess, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for Germans, Jews, and the Claims of Modernity (Yale Univ. Press, 2002)
2000–01
- William Collins Donahue, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for The End of Modernism: Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fé (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2001)
1998–99
- Lutz Koepnick, Washington University, for Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1999)
1996–97
- Julia Hell, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for Post-Fascist Fantasies: Psychoanalysis, History, and the Literature of East Germany (Duke Univ. Press, 1997)
1994–95
- James A. Schultz, University of California, Los Angeles, for The Knowledge of Childhood in the German Middle Ages, 1100–1350 (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1995)
1992–93
- Leslie A. Adelson, Ohio State University, Columbus, for Making Bodies, Making History: Feminism and German Identity (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1993)