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Gary J Bass, Kathleen DuVal and Dylan C Penningroth named Cundill History Prize finalists
Gary J Bass, Kathleen DuVal and Dylan C Penningroth have been named the 2024 finalists for The Cundill History Prize for works of history written or translated into English.
More than 400 titles were submitted for the prize by trade and academic publishers this year.
Bass is the William P Bowell professor of world politics of peace and war at Princeton, and the author of Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia (Picador/Knopf). DuVal is professor of early American history at the University of North Carolina and has written Native Nations: A Millennium in North America (Random House), while Penningroth, professor of law and history at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright Publishing).
They will each receive $10,000 (£7,524) and are now in the running to see their prize money topped up to $75,000 (£56,431).
Historian and BBC broadcaster Rana Mitter, who is chairing the jury, said: “The fierce urgency of history: that’s the force that runs through all three of our Cundill finalists. Each one is a brilliantly crafted, deeply researched work of historical scholarship. But each also speaks to issues that are still very much with us in the world of the 21st century—tense geopolitics, questions of law, rights and society, and above all, the complex and often counterintuitive interactions of human beings in the past that illuminate the present.”
Nicole Eustace from New York University and Stephanie Nolen from the New York Times are also on this year’s panel, alongside Moses Ochonu from Vanderbilt University and Rebecca L Spang from Indiana University in Bloomington. They decided on the three finalists based on the "craft, communication, and consequence" of their work.
The three authors will travel to Montreal for the 2024 Cundill History Prize Festival taking place on the McGill campus between 29th and 30th October.
