2025 American Council of Learned Societies Open Access Book Prizes.

The School of Art History is pleased to announce that Bishop Wardlaw Professor Kathryn Rudy’s ‘Image, Knife, and Gluepot - Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print’ (2019) is a finalist for the Literary Studies category of the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards. The $20,000 prizes, among the largest for scholarly books, will be announced in autumn 2025.

“ACLS congratulates the authors and publishers of the terrific finalists for the 2025 ACLS Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards,” said ACLS Vice President James Shulman. “Having made these books available for free and without barriers, these authors and publishers share knowledge with the world. By seeing these works celebrated, scholars across the sector will be encouraged to write and publish in ways that reach far beyond the gates of campus.”