Chad L. Williams '98

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Chad L. Williams '98 will be honored Thursday, Oct. 10, during the 2024 Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Awards presentations for his book "The Wounded World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the First World War," which was also named a best book of 2023 by The Washington Post, The New Yorker and the Christian Science Monitor.

Established in 2018 to encourage the exploration of “exemplary contemporary scholarship and writing within the field of African American history and culture,” the annual event includes a $50,000 prize for the top winner and $10,000 each for two finalists.

The Museum of African American History (Boston & Nantucket) and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation received 118 submissions for this year’s Stone Book Award. This year’s entries yielded eligible submissions from noted publishers including Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Little Brown and Penguin Random House, as well as university presses from across the country and around the globe, including Oxford, Yale and the University of California. Williams was chosen out of this talented pool as a finalist for this year’s top award.

The Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African American Studies at Brandeis University, Williams specializes in African American and modern U.S. history, African American military history, the World War I era and African American intellectual history.

The award ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the African Meeting House at 46 Joy St. on MAAH’s Beacon Hill (Boston, Massachusetts) campus.