2020 First Book Award Announcement
ISCHE is proud to announce that the winner of the 2020 First Book Award is Rebecca Swartz for her book Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833–1880 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Special thanks to the following colleagues who accepted to serve on the 2019-2020 award committee:
James Albisetti, University of Kentucky, USA
Damiano Matasci, Université de Genève, France
Silvina Gvirtz, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina
and particularly to Frank Simon (Ghent University, Belgium) who chaired this committee.
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