Deadline: 31 December, yearly

A committee awards the annual prize for a book that makes an unusually important contribution to advancing the science and art of geography. An award of $1,000 will be made to the author(s).

Eligibility: Books must be written or co-authored by a geographer. Books published in calendar year 2009 are now eligible for the awards.

Submissions: Nomination statements (two page maximum length) should provide full contact information for the author(s) and the nominator(s), including email addresses, and should document the ways the nominated work contributes to advancing the science and art of geography.

Please submit nomination statements and four copies of each nominated book to

Association of American Geographers, atth: Meridian Book Award, 1710 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington DC 20009-3198.

Previous AAG Meridian Book Award Winners:

2008
Robin Leichenko and Karen O'Brien for Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures. New York: Oxford University Press.

2007
Diana K. Davis for Resurrecting the Granary of Rome. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press/Swallow Press.

2006
Laura Pulido. Black Brown Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. University of California Press.

2005
Allen J. Scott, On Hollywood: The Place, the Industry, Princeton University Press

2004
Cindi Katz, Growing up Global: Economic Restructuring and Children's Everyday Lives, University of Minnesota Press

2003
Michael Williams, Deforesting The Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis, University of Chicago Press

2002
Aharon Kellerman. The Internet on Earth : A Geography of Information, J. Wiley

2001
John Clarke. Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press

2000
George L. Henderson. California and the Fictions of Capital, Oxford University Press (published in 1999)

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