William Mills Prize 2022

(* indicates title was shortlisted)

2022 William Mills Prize Recipient

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Kløver, Geir O. The Nansen Photographs. Oslo: The Fram Museum, April 2021. ISBN: 78-82-8235-114-0.

2022 William Mills Prize Honorable Mentions

Audlaluk, Larry. What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-77227-237-6.

Fretwell, Peter. Antarctic Atlas: New Maps and Graphics that Tell the Story of a Continent. London: Penguin Random House, November 2020. ISBN: 9781846149337 (Hardback); 9780141995618 (eBook).

2022 William Mills Prize Nominees

Bulkeley, Rip. The Historiography of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition, 1819-21. London: Palgrave Macmillan, May 2021. ISBN: 978-3-030-59545-6 (Hardcover); 978-3-030-59548-7 (Softcover); 978-3-030-59546-3 (eBook).

*Butler, Angela and Beau Riffenburgh. Shackleton’s Critic: The Life & Diaries of Eric Stewart Marshall. Radway, Warwick, UK: Jackleberry Press, December 2020. ISBN 978-0-9569272-2-4.

Crate, Susan A. Once Upon the Permafrost: Knowing Culture and Climate Change in Siberia. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, November 2021. ISBN: 978-0-8165-4155-3 (Hardcover); Paperback: 978-0-8165-4154-6 (Paperback). Series: Critical Green Engagements.

*Foscari, Giulia/UNLESS, ed. Antarctic Resolution. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, May 2021. ISBN 10: 303778640X. ISBN 13: 978-3-03778-640-6.

Ittusardjuat, Serapio. How I Survived: Four Nights on the Ice. Illustrated by Matthew K. Hoddy. Iqaluit: Inhabit Media, October 2020. ISBN: 978-1-77227-282-6 (Paperback, Inuktitut); 978-1-77227-272-7 (Hardcover, English).

Kortekangas, Otso. Language, Citizenship, and Sámi Education in the Nordic North, 1900-1940. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, March 2021. ISBN: 978-0-2280-0568-1 (Cloth); 978-0-2280-0569-8 (Paperback); 978-0-2280-0643-5 (ePDF); 978-0-2280-0644-2 (ePUB). Series: McGill-Queen’s Indigenous and Northern Studies.

*Krupnik, Igor and Aron L. Crowell, eds. Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press, September 2020. ISBN 13: 1944466347.

Lüdecke, Cornelia. Germans in the Antarctica. New York: Springer International Publishing, February 2021. ISBN: 978-3-030-40923-4 (Hardcover); 978-3-030-40924-1 (eBook). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40924-1 .

*Luukkanen, Harri and William W. Fitzhugh. The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern Eurasia. Contributions from Eugenia Anichtchenko. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, September 2020. ISBN: 978-1588344755 (Hardcover); 978-1588344762 (Ebook).

McGuire, Rosemary. Cold Latitudes. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, March 2021. ISBN: 9781602234376 (Paperback): 9781602234383 (eBook).

Nielsen, Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen. Camp Century: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice. New York: Columbia University Press, July 2021. ISBN: 9780231201766 (Hardcover); 9780231201773 (Paperback); 9780231554251 (E-book).

Piesing, Mark. N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia. New York: Custom House, HarperCollins Publishers, August 2021.  ISBN: 9780062851529 (Hardcover); 9780062851543 (eBook); 9780063095151 (audio file).

Pfiefer, Sebastian J. Bows and Arrows of the Greenland Thule Culture (1200–1900 AD): A study of archaeological and ethnographic sources. Oxford: BAR Publishing, November 2021. ISBN: 9781407359021 (Paperback); 9781407359038 (E-Book).

Sakakibara, Chie. Whale Snow: Iñupiat, Climate Change, and Multispecies Resilience in Arctic Alaska. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, October 2020. ISBN: 9780816529612 (Paperback); 9780816542147 (Ebook). Series: First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies.

*Sancton, Julian. Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica’s Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night. London : WH Allen, Penguin Random House, May 2021. ISBN: 9780753553442 (Hardback); 9780753553466 (Paperback); 9780753553473 (Ebook); 9780753559284 (Audio download).

*Scott, Karen N. and David L. VanderZwaag, eds. Research Handbook on Polar Law. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, December 2020. ISBN: 978 1 78811 958 0 (Hardback); 978 1 78811 959 7 (eBook). Series: Research Handbooks in Environmental Law.

*Wood, Gillen D’Arcy. Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, March, 2020.  ISBN: 9780691172200 (Hardcover); 9780691229041 (Paperback); 9780691201689 (eBook); 9780691205557 (Audio).