Lizabeth Cohen, the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies at Harvard University, has won the Bancroft Prize in American history and diplomacy. The 2020 honor is for her book, Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age.

Cohen’s work, published in October by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, probes the life of Yale-educated lawyer Ed Logue, whose career as a city planner helped reshape and revive a number of declining American cities, including Boston, New Haven, and New York in the decades after WWII. This is Cohen’s second Bancroft Prize.

Bancroft winners are judged by the “scope, depth of research, and richness of interpretation they present,” according to a statement by Columbia University, which administers the prize, which includes an award of $10,000.