In this year's competition of MSA First Book Award, 35 outstanding monographs were nominated for the award, from which 12 titles were shortlisted. The award, which honors the best first monograph in the field of memory studies by an MSA member published in English in 2023 or 2024, goes to David Mwambari for his monograph entitled Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda.
We are pleased to inform you that the winner book as well as the shortlisted monographs are available at a discounted price, courtesy of the publishers. Each publication includes a unique discount code provided by the publisher, which can be applied at checkout to receive the reduced price. Please refer to the individual book's page for the relevant code and further details.
The Winner of the 2025 MSA First Book Award
 | David Mwambari, Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda. English, 2023, Oxford University Press, 9780190942304, 336. | AUFLY30 |
The 12 shortlisted books for the 2025 MSA First Book Award
 | Sakiru Adebayo, Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa. English, 2023, University of Michigan, 978-0-472-05623-1, 183. | |
 | Katrin Antweiler, Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums. English, 2023, De Gruyter, 978-311-078797-9, 252. | DGBMEMHOL35 |
 | Clara de Massol de Rebetz, Remember the Anthropocene: Memorials beyond the human. English, 2023, Palgrave MacMillan – Memory Studies Series, 978-3-031-50368-9, 282. | |
 | Dr. Antony Kalashnikov, Monuments for Posterity: Self-Commemoration and the Stalinist Culture of Time. English, 2023, Cornell University Press, 9781501768637, xii+202pp.. | |
 | Anna Koch, Home after Fascism: Italian and German Jews after the Holocaust. English, 2023, Indiana University Press, 9780253066961, 318 Pages. | UMSA25 |
 | Kate Korycki, Weaponizing the Past: Collective Memory and Jews, Poles and Communists in 21st Century Poland. English, 2023, Berghahn Books, 978-1-80539-050-3, 232. | |
 | Brydie Kosmina, Feminist Afterlives of the Witch: Popular Culture, Memory, Activism. English, 2023, Palgrave Macmillan, 978-3-031-25291-4, 262. | |
 | Bareez Majid, Towards an understanding of Kurdistani Memory. English, 2023, Palgrave Macmillan, 978-3-03137-513-2, 308. | |
 | David Mwambari, Navigating Cultural Memory: Commemoration and Narrative in Postgenocide Rwanda. English, 2023, Oxford University Press, 9780190942304, 336. | |
 | Sahra Rausch, Emotionen in der postkolonialen Erinnerungspolitik. Deutschland und Frankreich seit den 1990er Jahren. German, 2024, De Gruyter, 9783111018485, 512. | |
 | Chana Teeger, Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools. English, 2024, Columbia University Press, 9780231213417, 206. | |
 | Hajar Yazdiha, The Struggle for the People's King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement. English, 2023, Princeton University Press, 9780691246475, 286. | P328 |