Sally and Ken Owens Award

Western History Association

The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands.

• Enable collaborations among peoples, institutions, and organizations devoted to the study of western history.
• Conduct an annual conference at which western history teachers, scholars, and professionals share their research and exchange ideas that facilitate further study of the North American West.
• Publish an award-winning journal that employs rigorous peer reviews to identify, improve, and distribute original western history scholarship.
• Promote public education on western history through active involvement with teachers, museums, non profit organizations, libraries, and other venues.

Sally and Ken Owens Award

The Western History Association announces the Owens Book Award given annually for the best book on the history of the Pacific West, including Alaska, Hawaii, Western Canada, and the U.S. Pacific territories. The Award is $500 to the author and a certificate to the publisher. The award is supported by the Sally and Ken Owens Trust and administered by the Western History Association.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• Publishers may submit more than one title each year.
• All submissions must have a copyright date in the previous calendar year.
• Presses should submit nominations and a copy of the book to each member of the award committee.
  • While the formal process requires presses/journals to submit the work of their authors, the WHA strongly recommends that authors check with the award committee chair a week before the deadline to see if they received a copy of their work.