[Cwgrad-announcements] FW: Prestigious Essay Contests for Scholars

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From: The New England Quarterly
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Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 1:10 PM
To: SUSAN.STRAIGHT at UCR.EDU
Subject: Prestigious Essay Contests for Scholars



Dear Department Chair:

 

The New England Quarterly, a Historical Review of New England Life and
Letters, administers two annual essay contests, one in early American
history (December deadline), and the other in nineteenth- and
twentieth-century New England literary history (June deadline), both
with generous prize awards and the opportunity for publication in NEQ.
Please pass this announcement along to faculty members and graduate
students who may want to participate.

 

Thank you for helping us get the word out about these prize
opportunities.

 

Linda Smith Rhoads, Editor

The New England Quarterly

249 Meserve Hall

Northeastern University

Boston, MA 02115

 


2005 Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Early American History


 

This prize of $2500, sponsored by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
and established in memory of Walter Muir Whitehill, former editor of
publications for the Society, will be awarded for a distinguished essay
on colonial history, with preference being given to New England
subjects. A committee of members of the Colonial Society will act as
judges: Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University; Robert Middlekauff,
University of California, Berkeley; and Edmund Sears Morgan, Yale
University. Submissions for the 2005 prize must be postmarked by 31
December 2005. The prizewinner will be announced in the spring of 2006,
and the winning essay will be published in The New England Quarterly.
For prize specifications, see NEQ's website,
<http://pull.xmr3.com/p/243-720A/11549410/newenglandquarterly.org-whiteh
ill.html> http://www.newenglandquarterly.org/whitehill/. Essays may be
submitted to Whitehill Prize Committee, c/o Linda Smith Rhoads, Editor,
The New England Quarterly, 249 Meserve Hall, Northeastern University,
Boston, MA 02115.

 

 

2006 Herbert Ross Brown Prize in New England Literary History, 1820-2000

 

This prize of $2000, established by the editors of The New England
Quarterly in memory of Herbert Ross Brown, editor of NEQ from 1945 to
1980, will be awarded for a distinguished essay in New England literary
history, 1820-2000. The editors will accept essays discussing New
England literature in the broadest sense-from slave narratives, to
poetry and novels, to political and religious tracts. The judges are
Nina Baym, University of Illinois; Andrew Delbanco, Columbia University;
and James Longenbach, University of Rochester. The prizewinner will be
announced in the fall of 2006, and the winning essay will be published
in NEQ. Submissions for the 2006 prize must be postmarked by 30 June
2006. For prize specifications, see NEQ's website,
<http://pull.xmr3.com/p/243-73BC/11549390/newenglandquarterly.org-brown.
html> http://www.newenglandquarterly.org/brown/. Essays may be submitted
to Brown Prize Committee, c/o Linda Smith Rhoads, Editor, The New
England Quarterly, 249 Meserve Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
02115.

 

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