The PCCBS invites entries from PhD students for the annual graduate prize. The student and the advisor, or instructor, must be current members of PCCBS. The submitted entry will have been presented at any conference in 2024, if the paper concerns a topic within the scope of British Studies. The submission should be the paper as delivered with the addition of necessary notes and citations, the total to not exceed 18 pages double spaced. Graduate Prize Submission deadline: February 7, 2025. Electronic copies of papers not already submitted should be sent to all three members of the committee, along with a cover letter from the instructor or advisor:
Robin Ganev (University of Regina)
Winners
- 2023-24 Elizabeth Hines (University of Chicago): “Anglo-Dutch Imperial Experiments.”
- 2022-23 Kristen Thomas-McGill (UC Santa Barbara, advised by Erika Rappaport): “Deciphering Professional Interpersonal Relationships and Archival Practices through an Imperial Scandal.”
- 2020-21 Claire Wrigley (University of California, Berkeley), “‘To Sweep Away and Raise Up’: Slum Clearances, Public Housing, and State Surveillance in Britain, 1919-1930.” Advisor: Prof. James Vernon. History Department, University of California, Berkeley, and Brendan Mackie (University of California, Berkeley), “Ringing The Changes: Clubs, Conspicuous Complexity, and the Middle-Class Public in 18th-Century England.” Advisor: Prof. Thomas Laqueur, History Department, University of California, Berkeley.
- 2019 Ken Corbett (University of British Columbia). “Redeeming the Time: Punctuality, Credit, & the Middling Sort”
- 2018 Murphy Temple (Stanford), “Spiritualism, the Body, and ‘Good Death’ in the First World War”; and Honorable Mention to Elizabeth Schmidt (UC Santa Barbara), “Culinary Commonplacing: An Examination of Borders in 18th- and 19th- Century Personal Recipe Collections.”
- 2017 Jon Connolly (Stanford University), “Indentured Free Labor: Legal Ideology in the Era of Emancipation”
- 2016 Sofia Cepeda (University of Arizona), “She Has Got a Husband at Sea: Seamen, Women, and the State, 1792-1815”
- 2015 Catherine L. Chou (Stanford), “Henry Howard and the Popish Parliament”
- 2014 Karin Amundsen (USC), “‘Upon Uncertain Hope of Gain’: Alchemy and Empire in Tudor England”
- 2013 Aidan Forth (Stanford), “Repression and Relief: Civilian ‘Concentration Camps’ in the British Empire, 1871- 1903”
- 2012 Lauren Horn Griffin (UC Santa Barbara), “St. Winefride’s Well Revisited: Confessional Identity & Devotional Practice in Stuart England”
- 2011 Justin Reed (UC Riverside), “Dutch Propaganda and the Repeal of the Test Acts”
- 2010 Caroline Shaw (UC Berkeley), “A Sacred Right of Refuge? The Tension Between the Universal and the Particular in the British Application of the Refugee Category, 1880-1905”
- 2009 Noah Millstone (Stanford), “Evil Counsel: The ‘Propositions to Bridle the Impertinency of Parliament’ and the Crisis of 1629”
- 2008 Rebecca Hughes (University of Washington), “‘Changing Africa’: Representations of Africans in British Missionary Propaganda, 1919-1939”
- 2007 Jeff Hoppes (UC Berkeley), “The Formation of the New Model Army Dragoon Regiment”
- 2005 Tillman Nechtman (University of Southern California), “‘These Fungus’s of Asia’: Nabobs, Metropolitan Fears, and the Indian Empire”