Sowande’ M. Mustakeem has been awarded the Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history from the American Historical Association for Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2016)

“The Wesley-Logan Prize in African diaspora history is jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life & History. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding book in African diaspora history. The AHA Committee on Minority Historians established the prize in 1992 in memory of two early pioneers in the field, Charles H. Wesley and Rayford W. Logan.”

http://blog.historians.org/2017/10/american-historical-association-announces-2017-prize-winners/