Congratulations to Mahshid
Mayar, who was awarded the Fishkin Prize for her monograph published by The University of North Carolina
Press, Citizens and Rulers of the World: The
American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of Empire. The International Committee of the ASA praised Mayar's work as “A thoroughgoing and creative critical analysis of
childhood, empire, and space [that] not only offers insights
into how childhood was figured in relation to U.S. imperial culture, and how
children took up the 'cartographies in progress' surrounding them, but also
bears more widely on conceptual and methodological questions of space, culture,
archive, and subjectivity. Informative, insightful, and beautifully
written.” Honorable
Mention goes to Dario Fazzi for “Imperial Constraints: Labor and U.S. Military Bases in
Italy, 1954-1979,” which was published in Diplomatic History, Volume
45, Issue 3, 2021, and which “offers a rich micro-history of San Vito base, illuminating
how diplomatic, military, and labor activity shaped the rise and decline of
U.S. military presence. The article properly traces the winding routes of
the Italian local labor-U.S. military bases negotiational relationships,
historicizing the impact of the economic and the diplomatic on the
representation of the 'Yankee' in the local mind, particularly in San
Vito dei Normanni and Martina Franca. Fazzi draws on a mix of evidence,
including digital documents, to paint an enlivening portrait, the analysis of
which has wider implications for understanding the local forms of
contestation–often around labor–across the US global military archipelago.”
