The Abbott-Johnson Award, created through a generous contribution from Carl Abbott and David Johnson, past PCB-AHA Presidents and Co-Editors of the Pacific Historical Review (PHR), will be awarded annually for the best article in the history of the Pacific World, its peoples, and relations (including Oceanian, Southeast Asian, Asian American, and Hawaiian history), published in the PHR or in another journal by a PCB-AHA member. The award honors Abbott, emeritus professor of Urban Studies and History at Portland State University, and Johnson, emeritus professor of History at Portland State University, for their service to the PCB-AHA, the PHR, and the field of Pacific World history.

Abbott is author or co-author of numerous books, including The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West, The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities, How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America, Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest, and Imagining Urban Futures: Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them.

Johnson published Founding the Far West: California, Oregon, Nevada, 1840–1890, which received the 1992 Pacific Coast Branch Award for an outstanding first monograph on any historical subject. At PSU, Johnson received the Burlington Northern Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship, the John Eliot Allen Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Branford Price Millar Award for outstanding scholarship and service. He is working on a book about the only woman lynched during the California Gold Rush.

The author need not live within the region served by the PCB-AHA (the Western States of the United States and the Western Provinces of Canada) if the article appeared in the PHR. Articles eligible for our other prizes are eligible for this award. The recipient will receive $250. If the article appears outside of the PHR, the author must be a current member of the American Historical Association living or working in the region served by the Pacific Coast Branch.

We are accepting further donations to support the Abbott-Johnson Award. You can questions about submissions and donations to Michael Green, Executive Director PCB–AHA, michael.green@pcb-aha.org.

You may submit articles for consideration until April 15, 2025, to the following three committee members:

David A. Johnson, Portland State University, johnsod@pdx.edu

Megan Asaka, University of California, Riverside, megan.asaka@ucr.edu

Maile Arvin, University of Utah, maile.arvin@utah.edu