Past Prize Winners
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ASECS ANNIBEL JENKINS BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 1995-97 - Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Layfette in Two Worlds (University of North Carolina Press) and Richard Wendorf, Librarian - Houghton Library and Senior Lecturer on the Fine Arts, Harvard University, Sir Joshua Reynolds (Harvard University Press) 1997-2000 - Nina Rattner Gelbart, Occidental College, The King's Midwife (University of California Press) 2000-2002 - Nicholas Boyle, University of Cambridge, Goethe, The Poet and the Age, Volume II, Revolution and Renunciation, 1790-1803 (Oxford University Press) 2002-04 - George Marsden, University of Notre Dame, Jonathan Edwards A Life (Yale University Press) 2004-06 - Co-winners: Vincent Carretta, Equiano The African: Biography of a Self-Made Man published by the University of Georgia Press and Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits published by the Oxford University Press ASECS CLIFFORD PRIZE RECIPIENTS 1977-78 - Judith Colton, "Merlin's Cave and Queen Caroline: Garden Art as Political Propaganda," Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 1976). 1978-79 - Barbara Maria Stafford, "Toward Romantic Landscape Perception: Illustrated Travels and the Rise of Singularity as an Aesthetic Category," The Art Quarterly (Autumn 1977). 1979-80 - Carole Fabricant, "Binding and Dressing Nature's Loose
Tresses: The Ideology of 1980-81 - Issac Kramnick, "Children's Literature and Bourgeous Ideology: Observations on Culture And Industrial Capitalism in the Later Eighteenth Century," Culture and Politics from Puritanism to the Enlightenment, edited by Perez Zagorin (University of California Press, 1980). 1981-82 - Calvin Seerveld, "Telltale Statues in Watteau's Painting," Eighteenth-Century Studies, (Winter 1980-81). 1982-83 - Joel H. Baer, "'The Complicated Plot of Piracy:' Aspects of English Criminal Law And the Image of the Pirate in Defoe," The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation (Winter 1982) 1983-84 - Frederick Bogel, "Dulness Unbound: Rhetoric and Pope's Dunciad," PMLA (October 1982). 1984-85 - John Barrell, "The Functions of Art in a Commercial Society: The Writings of James Barry," The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation ( ) 1985-86 - Joseph M. Levine, "The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles," Eighteenth-Life (October 1984) 1986-87 - Shared by Syndy McMillen Conger, "The Sorrows of Young Charlotte: Werther's English Sisters 1785-1805," Goethe Yearbook (Spring 1986) and G.S. Rousseau, "The Pursuit of Homosexuality in the Eighteenth Century: 'Utterly Confused Category' and/or Rich Repository?", Eighteenth-Century Life (May 1985). 1987-88 - Terry Castle, "The Female Thermometer," Representations (Winter 1987) 1988-89 - Daniel W. Howe, "The Political Psychology of The Federalist," William and Mary Quarterly (July 1987). 1989-90 - Bernadette Fort, "Voice of the Public: The Carnivalization of Salon Art in Prerevolutionary Pamphlets," Eighteenth-Century Studies (Spring 1989). 1990-91 - William Epstein, "Counter-Intelligence: Cold-War Criticism and Eighteenth-Century Studies" (Spring 1990). 1991-92 - Regina Janes, Beheadings," Representations (Summer 1991). 1992-93 - Dennis Todd, "The Hairy Maid at the Harpsichord: Some Speculations on the Meanings Of Gulliver's Travels," Texas Studies in Literature and Language (University of Texas Press, Summer 1992). 1993-94 - Trevor Ross, "Copyright and the Invention of Tradition," Eighteenth-Century Studies (Fall 1992). 1994-95 - Christie McDonald, "The Anxiety of Change: Reconfiguring Family Relations in Beaumarchais's Trilogy, " Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History (March 1994);Honorable Mention: Linda Merians, "What They Are, Who We Are: Representations of the 'Hottentot' in Eighteenth-Century Britain," Eighteenth-Century Life (November 1993) 1995-96 - Julia Douthwaite, "Rewriting the Savage: The Extraordinary Fictions of the 'Wild Girl of Champagne"' (ECS, Winter 1994-95); Honorable Mention: Michael McKeon, "Historicizing Patriarchy: The Emergence of Gender Difference in England, 1660-1760, Eighteenth-Century Studies (Spring 1995) 1996-97 - Mark Salber Phillips, "Reconsiderations on History and Antiquarianism: Arnaldo Momigliano and the Historiography of Eighteenth-Century Britain" (Journal of the History of Ideas, 1996). 1997 - Holly Brewer, "Entailing Aristocracy in Colonial Virginia: " Ancient Feudal Restraints" And Revolutionary Reform" (William and Mary Quarterly, April 1997) 1998-99 - James Schmidt, "Cabbage Heads and Gulps of Water: Hegel on the Terror" (Political Theory), 26 (1998) 4-32 1999-2000 - John Crowley, "The Sensibility of Comfort" (The American Historical Review), Vol. 104, No. 3, 6/99 2000-01 - Dror Wahrman, "Gender in Translation: How the English Wrote Their Juvenal, 1644- 1815" (Representations 65) 2001-02- A. Roger Ekirch, "Sleep We have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles" (The American Historical Review) 2002-03 - Georgia Cowart, "Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and the Subversive Utopia of the Opera-Ballet" (Art Bulletin) 2003-04 - Gregory S. Brown, “Reconsidering Censorship of Writers in Eighteenth-Century France” (Journal of Modern History) 2004-05 - Mark Blackwell, "Extraneous Bodies: The Contagion of Live-Tooth Transplatation in Late Eighteenth-Century England" (Published by Eighteenth-Century Life) Honorable Mention: Charlotte Sussman, "The Colonial Afterlife of Political Arithmetic: Swift, Demography and Mobile Populations" (Published by Cultural Critique 56, Winter 2004); Jeremy D. Popkin, "Facing Racial Revolution: Captivity Narratives and Identity in The Saint-Dominque Insurrection" (Published by Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 36, no. 4); Michael Kwass, "Consumption and the World of Ideas" (Published by Eighteenth-Century Studies) 2005-06 - Co-winners: Sarah Cohen, “Chardin’s Fur: Painting, Materialism and the Question of Animal Soul” published by Eighteenth-Century Studies and Lynn Festa, “Personal Effect: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century” published by Eighteenth-Century Life. ASECS GOTTSCHALK PRIZE RECIPIENTS 1976-77 - Margaret C. Jacob, The Newtonians and the English Revolution, 1689-1720 (Cornell University Press). 1977-78 - John G.A. Pocock, The Political Writings of James Harrington (Cambridge University Press) 1978-79 - Morris R. Brownell, Alexander Pope and the Arts of Georgian England (Clarendon Press) 1979-80 - James L. Clifford, Dictionary Johnson: Samuel Johnson's Middle Years (McGraw-Hill) 1980-81 - Michael Fried, Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot (University of California Press) 1981-82 - H.C. Robbins Landon, Haydn: A Documentary Study (Rizzoli International Publications) 1982-83- John Sitter, Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England (Cornell University Press) 1983-84 - Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Work, and the Age (Harvard University Press) 1984-85 - David B. Morris, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (Harvard University Press) 1985-86 - Michael Mooney, Vico in the Tradition of Rhetoric ((Princeton University Press) 1986-87 - J.M. Beattie, Crime and the Courts in England, 1660-1800 (Princeton University Press) 1987-88 - John Bender, Imagining the Pentitentiary: Fiction and the Architecture of Mind I Eighteenth-Century England (University of Chicago Press) 1988-89 - Damie Stillman, English Neo-Classical Architecture. 2 Vols. (Zwemmer) 1989-90 -
Shared by Felicity A. Nussbaum, The Autobiographical
Subject: Gender and Ideology in Eighteenth-Century England (JJohn
Hopkins University Press) and 1990-91- J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (W.W. Norton) 1991-93 - Shared by Joseph M. Levin, The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age (Cornell University Press) and Barbara Maria Stafford, Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine (MIT Press) 1993-94 -
Gananath Obeyesekere, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European
Mythmaking in the Pacific (Princeton University Press) 1994-95 - Daniel Vickers, Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850 (The University of North Carolina Press) 1995-96 - Susan Juster, Disorderly Women: Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (University of Michigan) 1996-97 - Steven L. Kaplan, The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700-1775 (Cornell University Press) 1997-98 - Stuart Sherman, Telling Time Clocks Diaries and English Diurnal Form 1660-1785 (The University of Chicago Press) 1998-99 - Adrian Johns, The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making (The University of Chicago Press) 1999-2000 - Mary Poovey, A History of the Modern Fact (The University of Chicago Press) 2000-01 - Rebecca L. Spang, The Invention of the Restaurant: Paris and Modern Gastronomic Culture (Harvard University Press, 2000) 2001-02 - Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country (Harvard University Press, 2001) 2002-03 - Ellen T. Harris, Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas (Harvard University Press, 2001) 2003-04 - Mary Terrall, The Man Who Flattened the Earth (University of Chicago Press) 2004-05 - Dror Wahrman, The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 2004) 2005-06 - David Marshall, The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815, published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. 2006-07 - Martin Brückner, The Geographic Revolution in Early America published by the University of North Carolina Press. Honorable Mention to Michael McKeon, The Secret History of Domesticity: Public, Private, and the Division of Knowledge published by Johns Hopkins University Press. ASECS GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE PAPER PRIZE RECIPIENTS 1988 - Anne Himmelfarb, "Speculative Fiction, the Prose Dialogue" 1990-91 - Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, "Writing the Space of the 'Natural': The Natural History of Selborne 1991-92 - Irene Fizer, "Domesticity Before, During, and After the American Revolution 1992-93 - (None Awarded) 1993-94 - Lee Morrissey, "Reading Stonehenge: Toward an Archaeology of Gray's Elegy" 1994-95 - Irene Fizer, "Animal Husbandry, Hybrid Wives: Emma's Technologies of Breeding and 18th-Century Science" 1995-96 - T. Christopher Bond, "Establishing a Genre: The Scientific Essay in Hans Sloane's Philosophical Transactions 1996-97 - James R. Otteson, "The Recurring 'Adams Smith Problem'" 1997-98 - Wayne Wild, "Doctor-Patient Correspondence in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Change in Rhetoric and Relationship" 1998-99 - Elliott Visconsi, "'Shall we render obedience to such a degenerate race?': Absolutism and English Barbarism in Behn's Oroonoko." 1999-2000 - Geoffrey Turnovsky, "Reconsidering the Literary Underground in France, 1750-1789" 2000-01 - Joanna Stalnaker, "Description and Indefinition: Representational Ambiguity in Buffon's Natural History" 2001-02 - Diana Solomon, "'Wiser Way to Make you Willing': The Restoration Actress's Comic Deliver of Prologues and Epilogues" 2002-03 - No prize was awarded 2003-04 - Nancy W. Collins – “Sociability Transformed: How Le Souper became Le Salon” 2004-05 - Nicole Horejsi - "Exoticizing the English and Domesticating the Foreign: Clara Reeve's Progress of Romance and the Creation of a National Genre" 2005-06 - Co-winners - Christopher Loar “Technology and the Foundations of Government; The Politics of Violence in Gulliver’s Travels” and Guy Tal “Disease and Disbelief in Francesco Goya’s Witchcraft Series 2006-07 - Will Slauter "News and Speculation in the Age of the American Revolution" ASECS GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH ESSAY COMPETITION PRIZE RECIPIENTS 2004-05 - Gefen Bar-On - "True Light; True Method: The Impact of Newtonianism on the Editing of Shakespear in Eighteenth-Century England" 2005-06 - CoWinners – Wing Sze Leung “Perfectibility and Rousseau’s Conceptions of Human Nature and Nature” and Michelle Syba “After Design: Addison’s Critical Pursuit of Beauties” 2006-07 - Crystal Lake "Redecorating the Ruin: Women and Antiquarianism in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall" INNOVATIVE COURSE DESIGN AWARDS 1987 - Volume 1 1988 - Volume 2 1991 - Volume 3 1993 - Volume 4 1995 - Volume 5 1996 - Volume 6 1997-98 - Volume 7 1998-99 - Volume 7 1999-2000 - Volume 8 2000-01 - Volume 8 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 Amy Wolf – “The Coffeehouse Culture of Eighteenth-Century England” 2005-06 Anthony Krupp, “Philosophies of Childhood in the Eighteenth-Century” 2006-07 John Patrick Greene, "Discovering the Exotic in the Eighteenth Century" ASECS MACAULAY PRIZE RECIPIENTS 1991-93 - Charlotte Sussman 1992-94 - Alessa Johns, "Engendering Utopis: Examples from Mid-Eighteenth-Century England" 1993-95 - Rebecca Messbarger, "Masked Resistance: A Woman's Defense of Women's Education in Eighteenth-Century Italy" 1994-96 - Melissa Hyde, "Ambiquities of Gender Identity in Francois Boucher's Pastoral Paintings" 1995-97 - Mary Catherine Moran, "Eighteenth-Century Conduct Literature and Scottish Conjectural History o the Role of Women in the Progress of Mankind" 1996-98 - Elizabeth Child, "Geography, Gender, and Print Culture: [Re]Locating England's Provincial Women Writers" 1997-98 - Lisa Zunshine, "'What door would it open to scandal 'Female Philanthropy and the London Foundling Hospital" 1998-99 - Theresa Ann Smith, "The Proposal for a Female National Dress in Eighteenth-Century Spain" 1999-2000 - Ana De Freitas Boe, "'Neither is It at All Becoming': Edmund Burke's A Philosophic Enquiry, the Beautiful, and the Disciplining of Desire" 2000-01 - Jordana Rosenberg, "The Bosom of the Bourgeoisie" 2001-02 - Andrew Piper, "Lost in Translation: German Women Translators around 1800" 2002-03 - Melissa Ganz, “Moll Flanders and English Marriage Law” 2003-04 - Elizabeth Bennet, "Divergent Paths to Virtue in the Lives and Writings of Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot" 2006-07 - JoEllen DeLucia, "`Beyond the Narrow House': The Ossian Poems, Gender, and Empire" ÉMILE DU CHÂTELET AWARD 2001-02 - Kathleen M. Oliver, "'The Intended Heroine of This Work': The Adolescent Female in Georgian England, 1714-1830" 2002-03 - Lisa Kasmer, "Regendering History: Women and The Genres of History, 1760-1830" 2003-04 - Susan B. Iwanisziw, "Interracial Concubinage in the Long Eighteenth Century: Two Exemplary Women" 2006-07 - Olga E. Glagoleva, "Woman's Honor, or the Story with a Pig: Everyday Life of Noblewomen in the Eighteenth-century Russian Provinces" WOMEN'S CAUCUS EDITING AND TRANSLATION FELLOWSHIP 2004-05 - Orianne Smith, Loyola University of Chicago 2005-06 - Jennifer Keith 2006-07 - Norbert Schürer, "The Correspondence of Charlotte Lennox" SOCIETY OF EARLY
AMERICANISTS AWARD 2001-02 - Laura M. Stevens, "The Anglican Quest for Compassion: American Indians and English Deists in the Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts" 2003-04 - Brycchan Carey, “‘Accounts of Savage Nations’: The Spectator and the Americas” 2004-05 - Anna Mae Duane, “Pregnancy and the New Birth in Charlotte Temple and The Coquette” HECAA DORA WIEBENSON GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE 2001-02 - Michael Yonan, "Imperial Identity and Roman Authority: Pompeo Batoni and the Austrian Habsburgs"
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