ASECS Archive

Graduate Student Research Essay Prize Recipients

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This prize recognizes an outstanding research essay of 15-30 pages that has not been previously published.

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2019

Gabriella Angeloni, University of South Carolina, “The Revolutionary Library of Sarah Izard Campbell”

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2018

Adam Schoene, Cornell University, “Rousseau’s Mute Eloquence”

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2017

Victoria Barnett-Woods, The George Washington University, "Justice on Trial: Obeah and Colonial Law in British Guiana

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2016 (Not Awarded)

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2015 (Not Awarded)

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2014 (Not Awarded)

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2013 (Not Awarded)

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2012 

Devjani Roy, University of Kentucky, "'Thou Proteus!': The Performance of Forgery in Georgiana Cavendish's The Sylph"

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2011 (Not Awarded)

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2010 (Not Awarded)

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2009 

Michelle Granshaw, University of Washington, "General Creole: Jon H. Nichols’s Political Plays in the Early American Republic"

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2008 

Joan G. Gonzalez, "The Modern Trajan: Napoleonic Propaganda in Le Triomphe de Trajan"

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2007 

Crystal Lake, "Redecorating the Ruin: Women and Antiquarianism in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall"

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2006 

Wing Sze Leung, “Perfectibility and Rousseau’s Conceptions of Human Nature and Nature” 

Michelle Syba, “After Design: Addison’s Critical Pursuit of Beauties”

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2005 

Gefen Bar-On, "True Light; True Method: The Impact of Newtonianism on the Editing of Shakespeare in Eighteenth-Century England"