AAG John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

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John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

Deadline: December 31, 2023

The Jackson Prize was established to encourage and reward American geographers who write books about the United States which convey the insights of professional geography in language that is interesting and attractive to a lay audience. The prize, which carries an award of $500 to the author, is administered by the Association of American Geographers. In any given cycle, the J.B. Jackson Prize Committee may also select a second title from the pool of nominations to be recognized with an Honorable Mention.

Eligibility:

J.B. Jackson and his friends established the prize to recognize American geographers who write serious but popular books about the human geography of the contemporary United States. The prize is restricted to sole- and dual-authored books written by geographers, with preference given to those by U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Textbooks, dissertations, edited collections, and articles are ineligible. Special consideration will be given to books that are carefully designed, appropriately illustrated, and physically appealing. The Selection Committee reserves the right to make no award in a particular year. Awards are announced in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Books published for the first time in English, in any country, in calendar year 2022 or in the period Oct. 1 – Dec. 31, 2021, are now eligible for the awards. Please submit your book for consideration for only one of the AAG’s three book awards (i.e., J.B. Jackson Prize, Globe Book Award, or Meridian Book Award).

As with all other AAG awards, eligibility also rests on the candidate being in compliance with the AAG Professional Conduct Policy. Nominations may be rescinded, and the award may also be revoked for any candidate or awardee who is found in violation of the AAG’s Professional Conduct Policy.

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 conveying insights of professional geography to a lay audience. Please email nomination statements to grantsawards@aag.org indicating “J.B. Jackson Prize” in the Subject Line. Please ship four copies of each nominated book to: Association of American Geographers, Attn: J.B. Jackson Prize, 2000 14th Street NW, Ste 104, #73158, Washington DC 20056.

About the Jackson Prize:

John Brinckerhoff Jackson founded the magazine Landscape in 1951 and remained its owner and editor until 1968. After he retired as Editor he spent more than a decade writing about landscape and teaching celebrated courses in the history of vernacular landscapes at Berkeley and Harvard. The Jackson Prize of the AAG is dedicated to encouraging the kind of thinking and writing to which J. B. Jackson devoted much of his life: to encourage Americans to look thoughtfully at the human geography of their own country; to try to understand how that geography came to be and what it signifies; and to convey that understanding to the public at large.