2024 Jacques Barzun Prize

The 2024 recipient of the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History is Darrin M. McMahon in recognition of his book Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea (Basic Books, 2023).  Darrin M. McMahon is currently Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College.  The 2024 Barzun Prize will be presented at the Society's November 2024 Meeting.  The full citation for the prize will be posted after the awards ceremony.

The selection committee consisted of Michael Wood (chair), Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Princeton University; David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley; and Robert B. Pippin, Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor, Committee on Social Thought, Department of Philosophy, University of Chicago.