Robert A. Gross
Draper Professor of Early American History, Emeritus, UConn
for his book
The Transcendentalists and Their World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021)
The Sharon Harris Book Award Committee notes
, “A monumental work of scholarship, this book allows us to view one of the central movements in American literature and philosophy through the magnifying lens of the community of Concord, MA.”
Peter Zarrow
Professor of History, UConn
for his book
Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880–1940 (SUNY Press, 2021)
“A thorough exploration of the writings of four important figures of 20th century Chinese political philosophy, Abolishing Boundaries makes a case for the importance of utopianism in shaping Chinese modernity.”
