2024 Overton Prize Recipients

Michael Bess

Funding to support a book on trade corridors in Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Cory Fischer-Hoffman

Funding to support research of Bethlehem Steel’s global supply chains

Rudy Garbelly

Funding to support a corporate history of the Iowa Interstate Railroad

Yannik Herbert

Funding to help digitize 18th and 19th century transportation networks

Julie King

Funding to support interviews of participants in the Union Pacific – Southern Pacific merger

Olivia Paschal

Funding to support a book on the growth of J.B. Hunt, Tyson and WalMart

Patrick Sheridan

Funding to research the role of the Texas and Pacific in Sunbelt economic development

Ritam Singupta

Funding to research the history of Calcutta tramways

Richard Jay Solomon

Funding to support research the history of New York’s IND subway

Thomas Walter

Funding to support research of the role of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads