Drixler and Van Vleck are co-winners of the MacMillan Center’s Gaddis Smith International Book Prize

Two of our colleagues are co-winners of the MacMillan Center’s Gaddis Smith International Book Prize.  Fabian Drixler won the prize for his book Mabiki:  Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1660-1950, and Jenifer Van Vleck for Empire of the Air:  Aviation and the American Ascendancy. 

Fabian’s book previously won Yale’s Heyman Prize and Jenifer’s book also received Honorable Mention for the Stuart L. Bernath Prize from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.