Gottschalk Prize

The Gottschalk Prize is awarded for an outstanding historical or critical study on the 18th century and carries a prize of US$1,000. It is named in honour of Louis Gottschalk, second President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, President of the American Historical Association, and for many years Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. His scholarship exemplified the humanistic ideals that this award is meant to encourage.

Gottschalk Prize Recipients

The prize is awarded annually.

1979–80 – James L. Clifford, Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years
1978–79 – Morris R. Brownell, Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England
1977–78 – John G.A. Pocock, The Political Writings of James Harrington
1976–77 – Margaret C. Jacob, The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689–1720.

1980–81 – Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot
1981–82 – H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: A Documentary Study
1982–83 – John Sitter, Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England
1983–84 – Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Work, and the Age
1984–85 – David B. Morris, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense
1985–86 – Michael Mooney, Vico in the Tradition of Rhetoric
1986–87 – J. M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660–1800
1987–88 – John Bender, Imagining the Penitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind in Eighteenth-Century England
1988–89 – Damie Stillman, English Neo-Classical Architecture. 2 Vols.
1989–90 – Shared by Felicity A. Nussbaum, The Autobiographical Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England and Jeremy D. Popkin, ''News and Politics in the Age of Revolution''

1990–91 – J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction
1991–93 – Shared by Joseph M. Levine, The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age and Barbara Maria Stafford, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine
1993–94 – Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific — Honorable Mention to Madelyn Gutwirth, The Twilight of the Goddesses: Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary Era
1994–95 – Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
1995–96 – Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England
1996–97 – Steven L. Kaplan, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700–1775
1997–98 – Stuart Sherman, Telling Time: Clocks, Diaries, and English Diurnal Form 1660–1785
1998–99 – Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
1999–2000 – Mary Poovey, ''A History of the Modern Fact''

2000–01 – Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture
2001–02 – Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country
2002–03 – Ellen T. Harris, Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas
2003–04 – Mary Terrall, The Man Who Flattened the Earth
2004–05 – Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England
2005–06 – David Marshall, The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750–1815
2006–07 – Martin Brückner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America — Honorable Mention to Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge
2007–08 – David A. Bell, The First Total War
2008–09 – Vincent Brown, The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery
2009–10 – David Hancock, ''Oceans of Wine: Madeira and the Emergence of American Trade and Taste''

2010–11 – Margaret Cohen, The Novel and the Sea
2011–12 – David Eltis and David Richardson, Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
2012–13 – Nicholas D. Paige, Before Fiction: The Ancien Regime of the Novel
2013–14 – William B. Warner, Protocols of Liberty: Communication, Innovation and the American Revolution
2014–15 – Vittoria Di Palma, Wasteland: A History
2015–16 – Rebecca Spang, Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution — Honorable Mention to Susan S. Lanser, The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565–1830
2016–17 – John O’Brien, Literature Incorporated: The Cultural Unconscious of the Business Corporation, 1650–1850
2017–18 – James Delbourgo, Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
2018–19 – Paola Bertucci, Artisanal Enlightenment: Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France
2019–20 – Katie Jarvis, ''Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France''

2020–21 – Dustin Stewart, Futures of Enlightenment Poetry
2021–22 – José Francisco Robles, Polemics, Literature, and Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Mexico: A New World for the Republic of Letters
2022–23 – Joan DeJean, Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast
2023–24 – April G. Shelford, A Caribbean Enlightenment: Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750–1792
2024–2025 – Asheesh Kapur Siddique, The Archive of Empire: ''Knowledge, Conquest, and the Making of the Early Modern British World. Honorable mention to Matthew Kadane, The Enlightenment and Original Sin''