Dr. Mount Selected as Winner of 2024 George and Anne Richards Prize

Professor Guy Emerson Mount has won the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2024. The article, “Shall I Go? Black Colonization in the Pacific, 1840-1914” appeared in the December 2024 special issue, Black Internationalism in the Era of Emancipation, guest edited by Brandon R. Byrd.

Read more about this prize and Dr. Mount’s research on the website for Penn State’s George and Anne Richards Civil War Era Center. “The prize committee was impressed by the article’s ‘innovative approach and its illuminating insights’ and praised it for creating ‘an innovative historical arc that illuminates how white state crafters sought to tackle the problem of emancipation through colonization.’ The committee called the article ‘beautifully written; and predicted that it ‘will not only offer scholars of slavery, abolition, Reconstruction, and US imperialism a new way to think about the connections between these topics but also fuel further conversation about the place of the Pacific in the histories of nineteenth-century America.’

Congratulations Dr. Mount!