First Book Prize

CGES is pleased to announce our book prize in the field of German and European Studies. We invite assistant professors coming up for promotion to apply!

Eligibility: assistant professors coming up for promotion with their first book in the humanities and social sciences in the field of German and European Studies.

Award winners will receive: domestic travel to UMN Twin Cities, hotel accommodation, a honorarium of $600, most importantly, the opportunity to give a talk on their book and to conduct a workshop with graduate students.

Please submit a CV, the book title, table of contents and sample chapter, date of publication and publisher and a brief abstract (max. 300 words) explaining the intervention your book makes to [email protected]. Please submit as one PDF.

Deadline for consideration: November 14th 2026 (for on-campus visits in 2027)
Maximum three prizes awarded per-calendar year.

Previous Winners: 
Fall 2025: Brandon Bloch, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin Madison
Reinventing Protestant Germany: Religious Nationalists and the Contest for Post-Nazi Democracy (Harvard University Press, August 2025)