German Studies Association

The German Studies Association (GSA) is an international organization of scholars in history, literature, economics, cultural studies, and political science who study Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. The organization began in 1976 as the Western Association for German Studies, and was renamed as the GSA in 1983 after transforming itself into first a North American organization, and then an international one. The association awards several annual awards for books in German and Central European history: the David Barclay Book Prize, the DAAD/GSA Book Prize, the Radomír Luža Prize, and the Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize, as well as the GSA-De Gruyter Dissertation Prize.