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The prize, which has a value of $1000, was established by the historian of Italian culture Howard R Marraro (b.1897) and is awarded annually by the American Historical Association for the best book on Italian history or Italian-American relations. Axel receives the prize for his 2017 monograph America in Italy: The United States in the Political Thought and Imagination of the Risorgimento, 1763-1865, published by Princeton University Press. He will be presented with the award at the AHA's annual meeting, which will take place in January 2019 in Chicago, Illinois.

The American Historical Association is the largest organisation of historians in the United States, with over 12,000 members. Founded in 1884, it was incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies. The Association provides leadership for the discipline of history, protects academic freedom, develops professional standards, and supports its members in their scholarly work. Their prize committee is made up of almost 150 members from across the AHA.

Axel Körner joined UCL in 2006 and, in 2008, became the founding director of the UCL Centre for Transnational History. He works primarily on the intellectual and cultural history of Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and is currently a network partner for the Leverhulme-funded Re-imagining Italianità project, a three-year project looking at nineteenth-century Italian opera in its transnational contexts. America in Italy is Axel's most recent monograph. It examines the influence of the American political experience on Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s, showing how Italian political thought was shaped by debates about the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution. 

Links

• Axel Körner's academic profile page