The University of Virginia Center for Cultural Landscapes invites you to submit publications for this year’s 2025 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize. Detailed descriptions of the eligibility requirements, application procedures, and past winners for each award can be found on the Center for Cultural Landscapes website.
The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize is awarded to a book published in the last three years that has made a significant contribution to the study and understanding of historical landscape studies across scales from the plant to the garden to the region. We are especially interested in books that focus on the landscape as a subject and not merely a context, and that explore new topics or new methods. The prize winner will be invited to give a book talk at the University of Virginia and presented with a monetary award. The application deadline for the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize is May 1, 2025. Please submit all inquiries to Lsibookprize@virginia.edu with the subject heading: 2025 Book Prize Nomination. Include the book title, publisher and author contact name, address, email, and phone number in your email query. We will reply with the jurors’ individual mailing addresses. Please include author and publisher contact information with each of the four individual packages sent to the jurors. This will facilitate the award notification process.
Award recipients will be selected by a jury composed of landscape studies scholars who serve staggered three-year terms. The jury chair and non-voting member is Professor Elizabeth Meyer, founding director of the Center for Cultural Landscapes, University of Virginia. Associate Professor Sarah Lopez, University of Pennsylvania, continues her term. We are joined by two new jurors: 2023 JB Jackson winner and Associate Professor Laura J. Martin, Williams College, and Professor Bradley Cantrell, University of Virginia.
