Meet the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prize Winners

Wed. Oct 22, 2025 4:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Supported by Arcadia, the American Council of Learned Societies recognizes and rewards the authors and publishers of exceptional, innovative, and open humanities scholarship. Open access publishing offers exciting new opportunities for scholars to share their research with wider audiences. This event will feature videos and live conversation with winners of the 2025 prizes, which are awarded in the categories of Environmental Humanities, History, Literary Studies, and Multimodal. Conversations will be moderated by Beth Daley, executive editor of the nonprofit, independent news organization The Conversation. This year’s winners are:



  • Environmental Humanities | Misreading the Bengal Delta: Climate Change, Development, and Livelihoods in Coastal Bangladesh by Camelia Dewan (University of Washington Press, 2021)

  • History | Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine by Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi (University of California Press, 2022)

  • Literary Studies | Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons by Hannah Frank, edited by Daniel Morgan (University of California Press, 2019)

  • Multimodal | Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene by Anna L. Tsing, Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou (Stanford University Press, 2020)


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Celeste Auditorium (Lower Level) The New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 42nd Street & 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10018
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