Historical IR Section (ISA)

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Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - Cambridge University Press, August 2025
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⏰ Reminder!

Don't forget to submit your nominations for our 2025 prizes – the deadline is **tomorrow** ⬇️

All details below & on our website:

The International Affairs summer reading list 2025 There is nothing quite like spending the summer lost within the pages of a great book — or ten. Every year, Book Reviews Editor Mariana…

☀️ The wait is over: our summer reading list 2025 is here!

Explore our recommended selection of books, reviewed in International Affairs, to keep you company this summer: medium.com/internationa...

ISA Book Award Winners (2024-2025). "The Oxford Handbook of History and International Relations." Mlada Bukovansky, Edward Keene, Christian Reus-Smit, and Maja Spanu. Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical IR. "States and the Masters of Capital: Sovereign Lending, Old and New." Quentin Bruneau. Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical IR. "Reconciliation by Stealth: How Poeple Talk about War Crimes." Denisa Kostovicova. HR Best Book Award. ISA logo.

Congratulations to this year's ISA #BookAward winners! Check them out and add them to your summer reading list. Stay tuned for more winner announcements throughout the summer.

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical International Relations by a Graduate Student are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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Modern Intellectual History is now on BlueSky: give @mihjournal.bsky.social a follow – lots of excellent work of interest to historically-minded IR scholars too!

👋 If you're looking for updates of the ISA's Historical Section (HIST), you're in the right place! Please like, share, and follow to help us spread the word 😀 #HistIR

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🚨 The deadline to apply for a ISA Research Workshop Grant (up to $2,500) is TOMORROW! 50K total funding available for 2026! In-person & virtual options. #ISA2026 👉 buff.ly/vDxoU04

🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical International Relations by a Graduate Student are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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🚨 Reminder! Nominations for the Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations are due August 1st – to nominate, get in touch with the committee chair. All further information on our website histsectionisa.weebly.com

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LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History - Call for Papers - The seminar welcomes scholars who have completed their PhD to share work-in-progress on any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined. We encourage a wide range of different approaches including research exploring transnational networks, non-state actors, and geographies beyond the Global North. The seminar is open to post-PhD scholars at all stages of their career. - Applicants should submit a provisional title, a brief 250-word abstract, and a CV to e.ingleson@lse.ac.uk by August 22, 2025.

👉 Take a look at this CfP for the LSE-Tufts Seminar in Contemporary International History, for those working on "any aspect of 20th or 21st century international history and historical IR, broadly defined" 👇
Organised by @lizingleson.bsky.social,‬ @mjbayly.bsky.social, @emleake.bsky.social #HistIR

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Announcing the 2025 ISA Dissertation Completion #Fellowship. This award is for #EarlyCareerScholars in the later stages of their #PhD program. It is intended to help #Students offset the cost of completing their dissertation. Eligibility Criteria & submission details here: buff.ly/pv0ye0Z

Also check out our website here, which includes up-to-date contact details for all prize committees 👉 histsectionisa.weebly.com

All updated information on prizes (see below) is now also available on our @isanet.bsky.social section website: www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

🚨 2025 HIST prize details

Our ISA section website will be updated shortly. In the meantime, have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes 👇

Note that *all nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵

PEC 2025 graphic reads: #EISAPEC25. The 18th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. International Relations[404 not found]: Politics for a Broken World. 25-29 August 2025. University of Bologna, Italy.

🗓️ The registration deadline for #EISAPEC25 has been extended by four days to 18 May, 2025!

🔗 Register via our online portal: bit.ly/4cB8W8N

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Tomorrow is the deadline fo proposals for ISA-West 2025, scheduled for September in Pasadena, CA!! More information can be found here: buff.ly/J7I0jFA

Want to nominate/self-nominate a book or article for one of the ISA HIST prizes this year? Here's all the up-to-date info you need 👇 #HistIR

🌍 Barbara W. Tuchman Prize for Best Paper in Historical International Relations by a Graduate Student

Committee: Jelena Subotic (chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller

Nominations (of papers presented at ISA 2025) are due by August 1st and should be emailed directly to the chair.

🌍 Joseph Fletcher Prize for Best Edited Book in Historical International Relations

Committee: Jelena Subotic (chair), Or Rosenboim, Thomas Müller

Nominations invited for ed. books published in the previous calendar year (2025 nominations are for books with a 2024 publication date) by August 1st.

🌍 Merze Tate Prize for Best Article in Historical International Relations

Committee: Justin Rosenberg (chair), Jaakko Heiskanen, Andrea Paras

Nominations invited for articles published in the previous calendar year (2025 nominations are for articles with a 2024 publication date) by August 1st.

🌍 Francesco Guicciardini Prize for Best Book in Historical International Relations

Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (chair), Mlada Bukovansky, Maïa Pal

For the 2025 prize (presented at the 2026 Annual Convention), books with a 2024 copyright are eligible. Nominations are due August 1st.

🚨 2025 HIST prize details

Our ISA section website will be updated shortly. In the meantime, have a look at this thread for all up-to-date information about our prizes 👇

Note that *all nominations* are due August 1st and should be sent (by email) to the respective committee chair. 🧵

👋 If you're looking for updates of the ISA's Historical Section (HIST), you're in the right place! Please like, share, and follow to help us spread the word 😀 #HistIR

Text: Submissions for ISA 2026 are open! ISA 67th Annual Convention - March 22-25, 2026 - Columbus, Ohio Image: lime green background with a row of photos on top and bottom of different thought leaders throughout history.

ISA is pleased to announce our 2026 conference, taking place in March 22-25, 2026 in Columbus, Ohio. The conference theme is "Back to the Fundamentals" and the deadline for submissions is June 1st: buff.ly/ItyofBO