2024 Lyman Award Winners

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Maritime and Nautical Archaeology 

Winner

Jane Webster, Materializing the Middle Passage: A Historical Archaeology of British Slave Shipping, 1680–1807 (Oxford University Press, 2024).

Maritime and Naval Biography and Memoir

Winner

Gelina Harlaftis, Onassis Business History, 1924—1975 (Brill, 2024).

Honorable mention

Andrew Lipman, Squanto: A Native Odyssey (Yale University Press, 2024).

Maritime and Naval Reference Works and Edited Primary Sources

Winner

Katelynn A. Hatton and Alex Christopher Meekins, eds., North Carolina Troops, 1861–1865: A Roster, Volume 22: Confederate States Navy, Confederate States Marine Corps, and Charlotte Naval Yard (North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2024).

Honorable mention
Robert F. Weir and Andrew W. German, The Watch’s Wild Cry: A Voyage Aboard the Whaling Vessel Clara Bell (Lyons Press, 2024).

Maritime and Naval Science, Technology, and the Environment

Winner

Tyler A. Pitrof, Too Far on a Whim: The Limits of High-Steam Propulsion in the US Navy (University of Alabama Press, 2024).

Honorable mention
Daniel Macfarlane, The Lives of Lake Ontario: An Environmental History (McGill-Queens University Press, 2024).

North American Maritime History

Winner

Jeff Forret, The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War (The New Press, 2024).

Honorable mention
Susan Gaunt Stearns, Empire of Commerce: The Closing of the Mississippi and the Opening of Atlantic Trade (University of Virginia Press, 2024).

North American Naval History

Co-Winner

Randy Carol Goguen, From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets: A Century of Women in the U.S. Navy (Naval Institute Press, 2024).

Co-Winner

Abigail G. Mullen, To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800–1805 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024).

World Maritime History

Winner

Mary E. Hicks, Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).

Honorable mention
Li Tana, A Maritime Vietnam: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

World Naval History

Winner

Kuan-Jen Chen, Charting America’s Cold War Waters in East Asia: Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security (Cambridge University Press, 2024).

Honorable mention
Nick Hewitt, Normandy: The Sailors’ Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France (Yale University Press, 2024).