The Central European History Society is proud to announce the winner of its biennial Annelise Thimme Article Prize, awarded to the best article in the field of Central European history published by a North American scholar. The 2025 prize, which recognizes articles published in 2023 or 2024, is awarded to Spencer Weinreich (currently a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows) for his article, “Why Early Modern Mass Incarceration Matters: The Bamberg Malefizhaus, 1627–31 ,” which appeared in the Journal of Social History, 56/4 (2023): 719-52. Congratulations Dr. Weinreich!

The prize will formally be conferred at the Society’s annual business meeting, to be held from 6:30-7:30 p.m. on Saturday, January 10, 2026 in the Boulevard B Room of the Hilton Chicago Hotel. Following its presentation at this meeting, the prize committee’s laudatio will be published on the CEHS website.