About the Cheiron Book Prize
Beginning in 2004, Cheiron: The International Society for the History of Behavioral and Socal Sciences has awarded the Cheiron Book Prize biennially for an outstanding monograph in the history of the social/behavioral/human sciences.
Eligible works for the Cheiron Book Prize include original book-length historical studies, written in English. Topical areas can include, but are not limited to, histories of psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, sociology, and social statistics.
Cheiron Book Prize Recipients
Nana Osei Quarshie
African Pharmakon: The Asylum as Shrine from Slavery to the Return
University of Chicago Press, 2025
William Max Nelson
Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens
University of Chicago Press, 2024
Michael Pettit
Governed by Affect: Hot Cognition and the End of Cold War Psychology
Oxford University Press, 2024
Christina Ramos
Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
The University of North Carolina Press, 2022
Nadine Weidman
Killer Instinct: The Popular Science of Human Nature in Twentieth-Century America
Harvard University Press, 2021
Martin Summers
Oxford University Press, 2019
Theodore M. Porter
Genetics in the Madhouse: The Unknown History of Human Heredity
Princeton University Press, 2018
Susanna L. Blumenthal
Law and the Modern Mind: Consciousness and Responsibility in American Culture
Harvard University Press, 2016
Susan D. Lamb
The Pathologist of the Mind: Adolf Meyer and the Origins of American Psychiatry
Johns Hopkins University Press
2004
Jeffrey Sklansky
The Soul’s Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920
University of North Carolina, 2002