2024 Humanities Institute Book Award Ceremony

The Humanities Institute (HI) Book Award celebrates outstanding writers whose contributions to the humanities change the conversation by fostering new directions for their discipline.

Professor Jo Guldi's The Long Land War: The Global Struggle for Occupancy Rights is the 2024 HI Book Award winner.

The Long Land War provides a definitive narrative of land redistribution alongside an unflinching critique of its failures, set against the background of the rise and fall of nationalism, communism, internationalism, information technology, and free-market economics. In considering how we could make the earth livable for all, she works out the important relationship between property ownership and justice on a changing planet.

Jo Guldi completed her PhD in History at the University of California, Berkeley (2008) and is currently Professor (in Practice) of Quantitative Theory and Methods at Emory University.  Previously, Dr. Guldi held positions mainly in Departments of History at the University of Chicago, the Harvard Society of Fellows, Brown University, and Southern Methodist University.  Dr. Guldi's research into quantitative methods focuses on improving AI approaches to understanding our past. Her historical research concerns the history of property rights, the origins of eminent domain, and the story of rent control.  Her articles have been published in the American Historical Review, Journal of Modern History, and Annales. From 2015-2021 she was PI of a $1 million NSF grant entitled "The Unaffordable World." Her-award winning books have been covered in The Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Boston Review, and Guardian.

This is a hybrid event of Humanities Institute. 

3:30 - 4:00 pm, Book Sale (The Long Land War)

4:00 – 5:00 pm, talk about the book, Q&A

       * For in-person attendees, light refreshments will be provided.

       * For online attendees, Zoom link will be provided before the event.

5:00 – 5:45 pm, Reception, Book Sale & Book Sign