AWARDS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Donald Gray Prize
The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History
NACBS Annual Undergraduate Essay Prize
NACBS Undergraduate Essay Prize (Canada)
R.H. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize
Scottish Society for Art History research support grant
The Shaw Society / T F Evans Award
The Trollope Prize
Awards Awarded

MaY

NAVSA’s Donald Gray Prize

for best journal article published in the previous year. Anyone can be nominated, regardless of NAVSA membership. To nominate an essay, please submit by Monday, 9th May 2011 (that's a receipt deadline, not a postmark deadline): (1) a brief cover sheet with complete address and email information for both the essay's nominator and its author, and (2) four hard copies of the essay to the Executive Secretary of NAVSA at the following address:

Meegan Kennedy, English Department, 631 University Way, P.O. Box 3061580, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-1580

Questions may be directed to meegan.kennedy@fsu.edu. You can find more information here:

http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA/Prizes/GrayPrize.cfm

NACBS UNDERGRADUATE ESSAY PRIZE (CANADA)

Each year the North American Conference on British Studies awards ten prizes of $100 each to the best essays on British topics from undergraduates studying in Canadian universities or colleges. Please publicize the contest to professors working in relevant fields and to students who satisfy these criteria.

The guidelines for the contest are as follows:

1. The essay must have been written while the author was enrolled as an undergraduate at a Canadian college or university.

2. The professor who taught the course needs to include a letter nominating the essay, including information about the level of the course and the student's year of study as well as the student's permanent mailing address and email contact information.

3. Essays in any field of British Studies are welcome and they will be judged according to the level of the course and the student's year of study.

4. Essays should be no longer than 25 pages, excluding citations and references (Most theses are too long to be considered).

5. Please submit a copy of the essay and a letter of nomination to EACH of the 3 members of the adjudication committee by 15th May 2011 (3 copies in total).

- Dr Richard Connors, Department of History, University of Ottawa, 155 Seraphin Marion Street, Room 105, Ottawa, On K1N 6N5

- Dr Janelle Jenstad, Department of English, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 3070, STN CSC Victoria, BC V8W 3W1

- Dr Tim Stretton, Department of History, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3C3 (Chair) Contact: tim.stretton@smu.ca

The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for 2011

The American Historical Association Announces The Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for 2011

Established in 1984, this prize, named in memory of Joan Kelly (1928-82), is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly. The prize was established by the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession and the Conference Group on Women's History (now the Coordinating Council for Women in History), and is administered by the American Historical Association.

To be eligible for consideration, submissions shall be books in any chronological period, any geographical location, or in an area of feminist theory that incorporates an historical perspective. Books should demonstrate originality of research, creativity of insight, graceful stylistic presentation, analytical skills, and a recognition of the important role of sex and gender in the historical process. The inter-relationship between women and the historical process should be addressed.

Books published between May 1, 2010, and April 30, 2011, are eligible for the 2011 award. One copy of each entry must be received by each of the following committee members. To be considered for the prize, entries must be postmarked by or on 16th May 2011. Late entries will not be considered.

KARIN ROSEMBLATT 3901 Connecticut Ave. NW apt 303 Washington, DC 20008 JUNE BENOWITZ University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee 8350 N. Tamiami Trail #C263 Sarasota, FL 34243

SHERYL KROEN 716 NE 7th St. Gainesville, FL 32601

KATHERINE FRENCH 918 JFT Dept. of History SUNY-New Paltz New Paltz, NY 12561

MICHELE MITCHELL Dept. of History New York University 53 Washington Square South, 7th Floor New York, NY 10012-1098

Please Note: The deadline for submission of entries is Monday, May 16, 2011. Entries will not be returned. Recipients will be announced at the January 5-8, 2012 AHA Annual Meeting in Chicago.

IMPORTANT! EACH ENTRY MUST BE CLEARLY LABELED "Kelly AWARD ENTRY."

For questions, please contact the Book Prize Administrator< http://www.historians.org/info/contact.cfm?u=aha&Subject=Book%20Prize%20Administrator>, or write to the AHA at the following address (please note that prize entries are not mailed to the AHA; rather, to committee members): American Historical Association, 400 A St., SE Washington, D.C. 20003-3889

june

The Trollope Prize

The Trollope Prize at the University of Kansas is pleased to announce a new partnership with *The Fortnightly Review*.

*The Fortnightly Review* has a storied history and was one of the most influential English-language periodicals of the nineteenth-century. The brainchild of Anthony Trollope, who was inspired by Matthew Arnold’s call for “a current of true and fresh ideas” in his 1864 lecture on “The Function of Criticism,” *The Fortnightly Review* launched on May 15, 1865 under the editorship of George Henry Lewes. The new on-line series of *The Fortnightly Review*, edited by Anthony O’Hear and Denis Boyles, publishes articles on art and literature, philosophy and culture, informed by an awareness of the *Fortnightly*’s archived content.

*The Fortnightly Review* is a natural place to publish the winning graduate essay of the annual Trollope Prize. The Trollope Prize is awarded annually to the best undergraduate and graduate essays in English on the works of Anthony Trollope. The Prize is designed to help promote the study of Trollope in college classrooms and to encourage student engagement with both Trollope's work and Victorian literary history through their own intensive research and writing. Submissions for the prize are accepted from around the world. The deadline is 1st June.

Essays are invited on the topic of "Trollope and His World." Submissions may include essays focusing exclusively on the works of Anthony Trollope; comparative essays on Trollope and other writers; essays examining Trollope's work and career in the larger context of Victorian history, culture and society; historical or literary essays on topics central to Trollope's work and illuminated by his work; or essays on the reception of Trollope's work or on his larger cultural influence.

Beginning in 2011, two prizes will be awarded: one to an essay written by an undergraduate student and one to an essay written by a graduate student. The writers of the winning undergraduate essay will receive a $1,000 award and a hardcover copy of a Trollope novel. The winning undergraduate student's faculty adviser will also receive a $500 award to help support the continued development of curriculum focusing on Trollope's works.

The graduate winner will receive a $2,000 award and a hardcover copy of a Trollope novel. In addition, the winning graduate essay will be published in *The Fortnightly Review* and the winner will receive a modest additional honorarium from the publication.

Visit www.trollopeprize.ku.edu for more information about the Trollope Prize, including submission criteria and guidelines. Visit www.fortnightlyreview.co.uk for more information about *The Fortnightly Review*.

NACBS Annual Undergraduate Essay Prize

The North American Conference on British Studies essay contest in British Studies (rather broadly defined) for undergraduate students enrolled at US universities and colleges awards up to six prizes at $100 each. The essay must have been written while the author was a degree-seeking undergraduate at a U S college or university, it must be nominated by a member of the NACBS & each member can nominate only one essay per year, it should be between 10 and 25 pages, excluding notes, and it can be in any field of British Studies, including, but not limited to, British History, British Literature, British Empire Studies, etc., etc.

Please contact Prof. Peter Hoffenberg at peterh@hawaii.edu if you would like to nominate. The letter of nomination and essay are due no later than 1st June 2011.

Peter H. Hoffenberg Associate Professor of History University of Hawaii, Manoa. 2530 Dole Street, Sakamaki Hall A203, Honolulu, HI 96822-2283 USA.

More information, including a nomination form is available on the NACBS website at http://www.nacbs.org/britstudessayendergrad.html

R.H. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize

The Society for French Studies invites submissions for the R.H. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize from students throughout the UK and Ireland. The prize includes a financial award of £250, consideration for publication in the French Studies Bulletin and expenses-paid attendance at the next annual conference. The deadline for the next round of the R. H. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize is Friday 24th June.

We ask that essays be sent electronically to Professor Michael Syrotinski (e-mail: m.syro@abdn.ac.uk) accompanied by the appropriate coversheet, which is available on the website of the Society for French Studies (www.sfs.ac.uk). Students should fill in the details requested on the coversheet, which also contains instructions regarding essay presentation and the email addresses to which entries should be sent. Essays should be submitted through the students’ Heads of Department, and there is a limit of three entries per Department. (This limit applies to collegiate and non-collegiate universities.) An electronic copy of each essay should be emailed together with an attestation from the Head of Department confirming that the student is an undergraduate student at the institution, the essay’s originality, the date of its first submission, and details of the context and requirements of the essay submitted. The author’s name and institution of study must not appear on the essay itself, but on the coversheet alone.

The winner of the prize will be announced by the Society for French Studies on the ‘SFS News’ page of the French Studies Bulletin and on the Society’s website (www.sfs.ac.uk). We look forward to a continuation of the very high standard set by last year’s winner, Claire Strickett (Glasgow University), in her piece entitled ‘Femmes-démon or victims? Reconsidering the source of the malevolent in Maupassant's contes fantastiques.’

Kate Griffiths, SFS Publicity Officer, k.s.griffiths@swansea.ac.uk

july

The Shaw Society / T F Evans Award

The Shaw Society that meets in London is now offering an award in honor of the late and great T. F. Evans, who himself could do a good imitation of Shaw the writer. Go to http://www.shawsociety.org.uk/ to see the society's homepage and to click on the original link to the award:

The Shaw Society / T F Evans award Could you write like Bernard Shaw? Offered for the first time in 2011, this award in memory of the late T F Evans will be made for a sequel or additional scene for a Shaw play, reflecting not only his literary style but his wit and wisdom An award of £500 will be made for the winning entry, which will also be given a rehearsed reading. The judges for the award will include Sir Michael Holroyd (Shaw’s biographer), Barbara Smoker (ex-president National Secular Society), Sam Walters (Artistic Director, Orange Tree Theatre), Sylvia Syms (film, TV and theatre actor) and Alan Knight (chair of the Shaw Society)

The Shaw Society / T F Evans award is open to all ages, professions and nationalities; there is no charge for entries. Further information and guidance, and details of how to enter, are given below.

The award In the first year, the award will be made for an additional scene (a prequel, a sequel or an inserted scene) for one of the following plays by Bernard Shaw: • Mrs Warren’s Profession • Candida • John Bull’s Other Island • The Doctor’s Dilemma • The Apple Cart The judges will look particularly for entries which reflect both the literary style and the “wit and wisdom” of Shaw. Shaw himself wrote additional scenes for a number of his plays, notably for the film versions of Major Barbara and Pygmalion (including for the latter the Embassy Ball scene, which introduces an entirely new character). He also of course added extensive Prefaces and Postscripts to many plays, which in some cases suggest what any additional scene might be like. An example of an additional scene could be an epilogue to Candida, ten years later, in which Marchbanks returns to the Morell household; or a scene inserted between Acts 3 and 4 of Mrs Warren’s Profession in which Kitty Warren tries to find out from Sir George and Frank Gardner why Vivie has fled back to London. But we would also welcome entries which not simply extend an existing Shaw play but subtly bring it up to date, by making reference to contemporary themes or debates. What might Shaw have written if he were still alive at the beginning of the 21st century? (An example might be an epilogue to John Bull’s Other Island, set a hundred years after the events of the play, reflecting on more recent Irish history.) Entries for the award should be a scene of between 20 and 45 minutes’ playing time. The title page should name the play and where the scene is to be inserted. Since the judges will not be told the names of entrants, please include your name only on the title page or covering email. The closing date is 31 July 2011 and the winner will be notified by 31 October 2011.

Terms and conditions of the Shaw Society / T F Evans award, 2011

1. The Shaw Society / T F Evans award is open to all ages, professions and nationalities.

2. The full specification for entries is as published on the Society’s website: www.shawsociety.org.uk.

3. Entrants may submit one entry only, of between 20 and 45 minutes’ playing time.

4. Entries must be submitted via email to: tfevansaward@shawsociety.org.uk. Please include your email address in the file if submitting as an attachment, or in the email itself. (Alternatively, entries will be accepted as hard copies, but three non-returnable copies must be supplied. Address for posting: Shaw Society / T F Evans award, c/o 22 Selborne Road, London, N22 7TL.)

5. The closing date for entries is 31st July 2011. Entries will not be accepted after that date.

6. The Shaw Society cannot accept responsibility for entries which are not received or which are received after the closing date due to technical failure or for any other reason.

7. The winner of the award will be notified by 31 October 2011 and the result published on the Society’s website.

8. The decision of the award judges will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.

9. The judges reserve the right not to make an award if no entry is considered to be of sufficient quality.

The Shaw Society that meets in London is now offering an award in honor of the late and great T. F. Evans, who himself could do a good imitation of Shaw the writer. Go to http://www.shawsociety.org.uk/ to see the society's homepage and to click on the original link to the award:

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Scottish Society For Art History Research Support Grants

The Scottish Society for Art History promotes scholarship in Scottish art and art located in Scotland.  To facilitate this, the SSAH offers research support grants from £50 to £300 to assist with research costs and travel expenses.  Applicants must be working at a post-graduate level or above and should either be resident in Scotland or doing research that necessitates travel to Scotland.  The SSAH will accept applications throughout the year, awarding grants as funds are available.  Our aim is to handle submissions within three months of receipt.  Recipients will be given a one-year membership in the SSAH and will be asked to write a report for the SSAH newsletter, explaining how the grant was used.

To apply please send:

- a cover letter - a brief project description (300-500 words), specifying how the grant will be used and how it relates to a broader research agenda.

- current curriculum vitae - a budget - the name and e-mail address of one reference

Address applications to: SSAH Research Support Grants, c/o Daniel F. Herrmann, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 75 Belford Road, Edinburgh EH4 3DR.

For further information contact: dherrmann@nationalgalleries.org

AWARDS AWARDED

The Art Libraries Society of North America has just awarded the 2011 Worldwide Books Award for Publications to The Art of American Book Covers 1875-1930 [George Braziller, Inc., 2010]: http://minsky.com/art-american-book-covers.htm

In presenting the award, the co-chairs of the ARLIS Research Awards Committee said "A useful addition to a growing area of study, this volume contains an introductory essay, guide to artists monograms as well as a bibliography. It is also beautifully designed and contains over one hundred illustrated examples of book covers."

This year George Braziller will be issuing The Book Art of Richard Minsky: http://minsky.com/bookart-rm.htm Free PDF previews of either book are available at the above links.

The prize committee for the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize is happy to announce the winner for 2010: The Punch Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London, written by Patrick Leary and published by the British Library. This prize is given "to the book published during the preceding year which made the most significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals." For further information about this annual award, see the website of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals: http://www.rs4vp.org/prizes.html.

Linda H. Peterson, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English Yale University New Haven, CT 06520-8302

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is very pleased to announce the winners of the Curran Fellowship for research to be undertaken in 2011. The Curran Fellowship, made possible through the generosity of Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English at Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research, provides research and travel grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and manuscript sources.

The winners of this year's Curran Fellowship are Priti Joshi, Professor of English at the University of Puget Sound, and Jennifer Tucker, Professor of History at Wesleyan University. Professor Joshi is working on a study of the English-language newspaper, the Mofussilite, published in India between 1845 and 1876. Professor Tucker is carrying out a study of the British press's coverage of the Tichborne Claimant trials, 1871-74.

Details about the next fellowship competition will be circulated later this spring. To learn more about RSVP and the prizes it offers, visit the Society's website at http://www.rs4vp.org/

Business History Conference (BHC) Prizes - 2011

At the Business History Conference annual meeting in St. Louis, Missouri, March 31-April 2, 2011, officers announced the following recipients of BHC prizes and grants.

Lifetime Achievement Award

The award is bestowed every two years to a scholar who has contributed significantly to the work of the Business History Conference and to scholarship in business history.

2011 recipient: Richard Sylla, Stern School of Business, New York University

Hagley Prize The prize is awarded jointly by the Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference to the best book in business history (broadly defined) written in English and published during the two years prior to the award.

2011 recipient: Susan Ingalls Lewis (State University of New York at New Paltz), Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830--1885 (Ohio State University Press, 2009)

Ralph Gomory Book Prize

This prize, made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, recognizes historical work on the effects of business enterprises on the economic conditions of the countries in which they operate.

2011 recipient: Richard John (Columbia University), Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunication (Harvard University Press, 2010).

2011 honorable mention: James R. Fichter (Lingnan University), So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Oxford Journals Article Prize This prize recognizes the author of an article published in Enterprise & Society judged to be the best of those that have appeared in volume previous to the year of the BHC annual meeting.

2011 recipient: Oskar Broberg (Gothenberg University), "Labeling the Good: Alternative Visions and Organic Branding in Sweden in the Late Twentieth Century," Enterprise and Society (2010) 11(4): 811-838.

Mira Wilkins Prize

This prize, established in recognition of the path-breaking scholarship of Mira Wilkins, is awarded to the author of the best article published annually in Enterprise & Society pertaining to international and comparative business history.

2011 recipient: Marcelo Bucheli (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), "Multinational Corporations, Business Groups, and Economic Nationalism: Standard Oil (New Jersey), Royal Dutch-Shell, and Energy Politics in Chile 1913-2005," Enterprise & Society (2010) 11(2): 350-399.

Herman E. Krooss Prize The prize recognizes the best dissertation in business history< http://www.thebhc.org/awards/krooswin.html> written in English and completed in the three calendar years immediately prior to the annual meeting.

2011 recipient: Dan Bouk (Colgate University), "The Science of Difference: Developing Tools for Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry, 1830-1930," (Princeton University, 2009).

K. Austin Kerr Prize The prize recognizes the best first paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Business History Conference by a new scholar (doctoral student or those within three years of receiving their Ph.D). It honors K. Austin Kerr, longtime professor of history at the Ohio State University and former president of the Business History Conference.

2011 recipient: Di Yin Lu (Harvard University), "Shanghai's Art Dealers and the International Market for Chinese Art, 1922-1949."

2011 honorable mention: Kelly Arehart (College of William and Mary), "'To Put a Mass of Putrefying Animal Matter into a Fine Plush Casket': The Development of Professional Knowledge among Morticians, 1880-1920."

The CEBC Halloran Prize in the History of Corporate Responsibility< http://www.thebhc.org/awards/halloran.html>

The prize recognizes a paper presented at the BHC annual meeting that makes a significant contribution to the history of corporate responsibility. It is funded by the Center for Ethical Business Cultures (CEBC) at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business in honor of Harry R. Halloran, Jr.

2011 recipient: Ann-Kristin Bergquist (Umeå University) and Kristina Söderholm (Luleå University of Technology), "The Making of a Green Innovation System The Swedish Institute for Water and Air Protection and the Swedish Pulp and Paper Industry in the mid-1960s to the 1980s."

For more information about these prizes, go to www.thebhc.org/awards/index.html<http://www.thebhc.org/awards/index.html> or contact Roger Horowitz, BHC Secretary-Treasurer, rh@udel.edu<mailto: rh@udel.edu>.

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