| “‘Canoes of Great Swiftness’: Rivercraft and War in the Northeast” |
Zachary M. Bennett |
Spring 2023 |
| “Land, Fur, and Copper: The Union of Settler Colonialism and Industrial Capitalism in the Great Lakes Region, 1815–1842” |
Gustave Lester
Honorable Mention
|
Winter 2023 |
| “That she shall forever be banished from this country”: Alcohol, Sovereignty, and Social Segregation in New Netherland |
Erin Kramer |
Winter 2022 |
| “Brought from the Palenques”: Race, Subjecthood, and Warfare in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean |
Casey Schmitt
Honorable Mention
|
Fall 2022 |
| Sintsincks to Sing Sing: Empire the War of 1812, and the Transformation of U.S. Prisons |
Lee Bernstein
Honorable Mention
|
Spring 2022 |
| Facing Race: Popular Science and Black Intellectual Thought in Antebellum America |
Rachel Walker |
Spring 2021 |
| Enquire of the Printer: Newspaper Advertising and the Moral Economy of the North American Slave Trade, 1704–1807 |
Jordan Taylor |
Summer 2020 |
| Remembering Napoleon: Americans and the French Emperor in the 1820s and 1830s |
Nadine Klopfer
Honorable Mention
|
Fall 2020 |
| The Constitutional Consequences of Commercial Crisis: The Role of Trade Reconsidered in the “Critical Period” |
Dael Norwood
Honorable Mention
|
Fall 2020 |
| Sailing on Paper: The Embellished Bill of Lading in the Material Atlantic, 1720-1864 |
Hannah Farber |
Winter 2019 |
| Frontiers of Grain: Indigenous Maize, Afroeurasian Wheat, and the Origins of Industrial Food |
Natale Zappia
Honorable Mention
|
Spring 2019 |
| “Your Mother Gave Birth to a Pig”: Power, Abuse, and Planter Linguistics in Baudry des Loziere’s Vocabulaire Congo |
Sara Johnson |
Winter 2018 |
| Inventing an Indian Slave Conspiracy on Nantucket, 1738 |
Justin Pope |
Summer 2017 |
| Timbering and Turtling: The Maritime Hinterlands of Early Modern British Caribbean Cities |
Mary Draper
Honorable Mention
|
Fall 2017 |
| Rediscovering Native North America: Settlements, Maps, and Empires in the Eastern Woodlands |
Chad Anderson |
Summer 2016 |
| “A Laudable Spirit of Enterprise”: Renegotiating Land, Natural Resources, and Power on Post-Revolutionary Long Island |
Jennifer Anderson |
Spring 2015 |
| Toussaint, Gabriel, and Three Finger’d Jack: “Courageous Chiefs” and the “Sacred Standard of Liberty” on the Atlantic Stage |
Jenna Gibbs
Honorable Mention
|
Summer 2015 |
| Rattlesnakes in the Garden: The Fascinating Serpents of the Early, Edenic Republic |
Zachary McLeod Hutchins |
Fall 2011 |
| Spiritual Diplomacy, the Yamasees, and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: Reinterpreting Prince George’s Eighteenth-Century Voyage to England |
Denise Bossy |
Spring 2014 |
| “One Indian and a Negroe, the first thes Ilands ever had”: Imagining the Archive in Early Bermuda |
Heather Kopelson |
Spring 2013 |
| Ecosystems under Sail: Specimen Transport in the Eighteenth-Century French and British Atlantics |
Christopher M. Parsons & Kathleen S. Murphy |
Fall 2012 |
| Rattlesnakes in the Garden: The Fascinating Serpents of the Early, Edenic Republic |
Zachary McLeod Hutchins |
Fall 2011 |
