The 2022 Bancroft Prize Award Ceremony
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Columbia University Libraries, in partnership with the Department of History and The Forum, are delighted to invite you to a celebration of the Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy. We will honor the awardees from 2020 and 2021 in addition to featuring the 2022 winners, Professors Mia Bay (University of Pennsylvania) and Mae Ngai (Columbia University). Please see the winners’ profiles below.
We have special plans this year to re-launch this important award with a new format and venue. We will be hosting an in-person program in the auditorium at The Forum on Tuesday, April 26, as well as live-streaming the festivities for a virtual audience. We will then celebrate with a reception following the ceremony at The Forum.
Whether you would prefer to be with us in person or online, we very much hope that you will join us! The program will take place from 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
- To register your attendance for the in-person program, please click here.
- To register for the virtual program, please click here.
Please note, Columbia University requires proof of full vaccination and presentation of a government-issued ID for entry to all campus facilities.
2022 Prize Winners
Mia Bay is the Roy F. and Jeanette P. Nichols Professor of American History at University of Pennsylvania. Bay is a scholar of American and African American intellectual, cultural, and social history whose publications include Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance (Harvard University Press, 2021), To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), and The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925 (Oxford University Press, 2000). Bay is currently working on a new book on the history of African American ideas about Thomas Jefferson.
You may order the book here.
Mae Ngai (GSAS’98) is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies at Columbia University, Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. She is author of The The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (W.W. Norton, 2021), Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2004) and The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America (Princeton University Press, 2010). She writes on immigration matters for The New York Times, the Atlantic, and other publications.
You may order the book here.