# Ellis W. Hawley Prize

The Ellis W. Hawley Prize is an annual book award by the Organization of American Historians for the best historical study of the political economy, politics, or institutions of the United States, in its domestic or international affairs, from the American Civil War to the present. The prize honors Ellis W. Hawley, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Iowa, for his outstanding work in these subjects The Ellis W. Hawley Prize was first approved at the annual business meeting of the Organization of American Historians on April 1, 1995, and first awarded in 1997. The awarding committee is composed of three members appointed annually by the President of the Organization of American Historians. The winner receives five hundred dollars.
| Year | Winner | Affiliation | Title |
| 1997 | Gareth Davies | Oxford University (UK) | From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism |
| 1998 | Walter LaFeber | Cornell University | The Clash: A History of U.S.–Japan Relations |
| 1999 | Daniel T. Rodgers | Princeton University | Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age |
| 2000 | Julian E. Zelizer | State University of New York at Albany | Taxing America: Wilbur Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945–1975 |
| 2001 | Stephen Kantrowitz | University of Wisconsin–Madison | Ben Tillman and the Reconstruction of White America |
| 2002 | David W. Blight | Amherst College | Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory |
| 2003 | Steven W. Usselman | Georgia Institute of Technology | Regulating Railroad Innovation: Business, Technology, and Politics in America, 1840–1920 |
| 2004 | Jennifer Klein | Yale University | For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America's Public-Private Welfare State |
| 2005 | Alison Isenberg | Rutgers University | Downtown America: A History of the Place and the People Who Made It |
| 2006 | Meg Jacobs | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America |
| 2007 | Marie Gottschalk | University of Pennsylvania | The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America |
| 2008co | Wendy L. Wall | Colgate University | Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement |
| 2008co | David M. P. Freund | University of Maryland, College Park | Colored Property: State Policy and White Racial Politics in Suburban America |
| 2009 | Peggy Pascoe | University of Oregon | What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America |
| 2010 | Margot Canaday | Princeton University | The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America |
| 2011 | Nick Cullather | Indiana University | The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia |
| 2012 | Darren Dochuk | Purdue University | From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism |
| 2013 | Jonathan Levy | Princeton University | Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America |
| 2014 | Kate Brown | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters |
| 2015 | Alan McPherson | University of Oklahoma | The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. Occupations |
| 2016 | Gary Gerstle | University of Cambridge | Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present |
| 2017 | Sam Lebovic | George Mason University | Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America |
| 2018 | Richard White | Stanford University | The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896 |
| 2019 | Elizabeth Lew-Williams | Princeton University | The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America |
| 2020 | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor | Princeton University | Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership |
| 2021 | Lila Corwin Berman | Temple University | The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex: The History of a Multibillion-Dollar Institution |
| 2022 | Destin Jenkins | Stanford University | The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City |
| 2024 | Dylan C. Penningroth | University of California, Berkeley | Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights |