The Society for Italian Historical Studies, affiliated with the American Historical Association, again offers a prize of $400 for the best unpublished manuscript on the history of Italy, of article or dissertation length. Since the object of the award is to encourage fresh interest in Italian history, the prize is offered for the first or second study in the field by a scholar who has received the Ph.D. since January 1, 2009.
Only essays or doctoral dissertations that are judged worthy of scholarly publication will be considered. Acceptance of a study for publication during the period of competition will not debar it from consideration. Scholars and students regularly resident in the United States or in Canada are eligible for the award. The Society reserves the right to withhold the prize if no manuscript deemed worthy is submitted. Do not send recommendations.
The award will be announced at the January 2011 meeting of the Society for Italian Historical Studies.
One copy of the work, with a brief vita, should be sent to each of the following committee members; they must be received no later than August 1, 2010. Those wishing to have their manuscripts returned should mention it.
Prof. Richard R. Drake, History Department, University of Montanta, Missoula, MT 59812
Eleanor Congdon, 400 Elruth Ct. #136, Girard, OH 44420
Janine Peterson, 326 Ringgold St., Peekskill, NY 10566
A brief vita and the title of the entry should also be sent to the Executive Secretary, to whom all requests for further information should be addressed:
Prof. Alan J. Reinerman, Executive Secretary-Treasurer, SIHS, History Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Past Recipients:
1990 - Geoffrey A. Haywood, Sidney Sonnino and Liberal Italy, 1847-1901 and Paolo Squatriti, Water and Society in Late Antique and Early Italy
1991 - Marla S. Stone, The Politics of Cultural Production: The Exhibition in Fascist Italy, 1928-1942
1992 - Silvana Patriarca, Number and the Nation: The Statistical Representation of Italy, 1820-1871
1993-94 - No Award Given
1995 - Weitse DeBoer, Sinews of Discipline
1996 - Stanislao Pugliese, Socialist Heretic and Humanist: Carlo Roselli in Italy and in Exile
1997 - Victoria M. Morse, A Complex Terrain: Church, Society and the Individual in the Works of Opicino de Canistris
1998 - Stephen C. Soper, A Context for Rule: Associations, Public Life and Liberal Ideology of 19th Century Italy
1999 - David d'Andrea, Civic Christianity in 15th Century Treviso: The Confraternity and Hospital of Santa Maria dei Battuti
2000 - Emyln Eisenach, Marriage, Concubinage and Marriage Dissolution in 16th Century Verona
2001 - Mary Hewlett, Women, Sexual Abuse and Sodomy in Late Renaissance Lucca
2003 - Anne Wingenter, Le veterane del dolore: Mothers and Widows of the "Fallen" in Fascist Italy
2004 - Francesca Trivellato, Trading Diasporas and Trading Networks in the Early Modern Period: A Sephardic Partnership of Livorno in the Mediterranean, Europe, and Portuguese India (ca. 1700-1750)
2005 - Paul A. Garfinkel, Criminal Law and Juridical Culture in Liberal and Fascist Italy
2006 - Emily O'Brien, The Anatomy of an Apology: The War against Conciliarism
2007 - Joshua Arthurs, “A Revolution in the Idea of Rome”: Excavating Modernity in Fascist Italy
2008 - Elizabeth Bernhardt, Genevra Sforza and the Bentivoglio: Family, Politics and Reputation in Renaissance Bologna