Elizabeth Giorgis PhD ’10 awarded the 2020 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize for her 2019 book Modernist Art in Ethiopia.
The African Studies Association (ASA) presents the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African studies published in the previous calendar. Modernist Art in Ethiopia (Ohio University Press, 2019) was also named a finalist for the annual ASA Book Prize, which recognizes the most important scholarly work in African Studies, published in English and distributed in the United States the previous year. It was also shortlisted for the ASA of the UK’s Oliver and Fage Prize, which is awarded to an author of outstanding original scholarly work published on Africa during the previous two years.
