Established in 2008, the Humanities Institute Book Award is presented for a nonfiction work of humanities-based scholarship. The Book Award celebrates outstanding writers whose contributions to the humanities change the conversation by fostering new directions for their discipline.
The winner of the 2025 Book Award will be announced soon.
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2025 Book Award Winner
The Humanities Institute is thrilled to share that Christy Spackman’s “The Taste of Water” (2023, University of California Press) was honored with the 2025 award. Spackman will engage students and faculty during a lecture to be announced this fall, alongside Jo Guldi, who was awarded the 2024 Book Award for “The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights” and whose lecture was postponed earlier this year. In the meantime, readers can learn more by watching Spackman’s interview with Wellington Square Bookshop on YouTube.
