Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, Merle Curti Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been selected as the winner of the 2013 John H. Dunning Prize for her book American Nietzsche: A History of An Icon and His Ideas.
The Dunning Prize is awarded biennially by the American Historical Association (AHA) to honor an outstanding monograph on any subject relating to United States history. The prize will be awarded during a ceremony at the Association’s 128th Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., Jan. 2-5.
Ratner-Rosenhagen’s book was selected from more than 120 entries by a prize review committee of AHA members.
"Vividly written and deeply researched, American Nietzsche reshapes our understanding of early 20th century thought and feeling in the U.S. by showing the many and varied ways in which Nietzsche’s work mattered to so many different kinds of people and for so many different reasons and over such a long period of time," notes Susan A. Glenn, the 2013 Dunning Prize committee chair and professor of history at the University of Washington.
The Dunning Prize was created in 1927 by a bequest from Miss Mathilda M. Dunning, stipulating that a prize in American history be established in the name of her father, John H. Dunning. This biennial prize was first awarded in 1929, and has been awarded biennially in odd-numbered years since 1991.
The American Historical Association is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies. As the largest organization of historians in the United States, the AHA is comprised of more than 14,000 members.