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Arts Council of the African Studies Association

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Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award

The Arnold Rubin Outstanding Book Award is given for excellence in scholarship on the arts of Africa and the African Diaspora. The awards committee will assess works of original scholarship and excellence in visual presentation that makes significant contribution to our understanding of African arts and material culture.  While our awards committee is made up of volunteers with varied language skills, we welcome submissions in languages other than English and we will do our best to solicit suitable ACASA members as outside readers for assistance.

Eligibility

Up to two awards are made, one from each of the following categories:

  1. Single authored books
  2. Multi-authored volumes.

Runners up may also be recognized

Eligible books must have been published (by official publication date or demonstrated public availability, if different) between September 1, 2019 and August 30, 2023.  No book will be considered for more than one award cycle.

Nominees must be ACASA members in good standing.  Join ACASA

Submission Materials

Please submit 3 copies of the book.

Submissions must be received by October 31, 2023 to be considered.

Submissions can be mailed to:

Kris Juncker
4225 Brandywine Street NW
Washington, DC 20016

Please contact the ACASA Secretary for questions or comments.

2021 Arnold Rubin Outstanding Publication Award Recipients

Single Author:
John W. Monroe. Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art, Cornell University Press, 2019.

Gaëlle Beaujean. L’art de cour d’Abomey – Le sens des objects, Presses du réel, 2019.

Multiple Authors:
Lisa Aronson and Martha Anderson (eds.). African Photographer J.A. Green: Reimagining the Indigenous and the Colonial, Indiana University Press, 2017.

Kathleen Bickford Berzock. Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, Princeton University Press, 2019.

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About ACASA

ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, promotes greater understanding of African material and expressive culture in all its many forms, and encourages contact and collaboration with African and Diaspora artists and scholars.

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