The Society of Civil War Historians solicits nominations for the Tom Watson Brown Book Award for books published in 2025. Publishers are asked to send books, along with a cover letter nominating the work for the Tom Watson Brown Award, directly to the four prize jurors no later than January 31, 2026. Only books published in 2025 will be considered.
The Friends’ Grants to Scholars program helps fund visiting scholars who have particular research needs in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. The Friends award several grants annually, bringing scholars to Madison campus libraries to conduct research in the humanities, sciences, and related fields appropriate to the libraries’ collection strengths. The purpose of this program is to foster high-level use of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries’ rich holdings, and to make them better known and more accessible to a wider circle of scholars.
ORIGIN
The Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award is named in honor of the late social activist and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities., Jane Jacobs.
PURPOSE
The annual Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award recognizes an outstanding book, published in English, which exhibits excellence in addressing issues of urban communication. The book award brings with it a $500 prize.
PROCEDURES OF SUBMISSION
Learn about the 2024 Alixa Naff Migration Studies Prize Winner. (Photo in header: Arab American National Museum Collection 2004.06.02a)
Conduct policy-oriented research that addresses topics of common importance for the US-EU relationship and/or EU affairs and that is tenable in one, two, or three EU Member States.
One American scholar will be selected for the Fulbright-Schuman Innovation Award, designed to support research at the intersection of policy and technology that can improve the transatlantic understanding of issues at the heart of the US-EU relationship. The 2026-27 Innovation Award will give preference to proposals focused on the EU or US-EU approaches to innovative technologies and business models and their integration with new and existing policies and regulations. Successful proposals should address research topics focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and policy.
