The SCBS Charles Perry Graduate Student Prize ($250) is awarded to the best paper presented at the conference by a graduate student. All Graduate Students presenting at the Annual Meeting are eligible and will receive an email with further details of the application process once they have been accepted to the conference.

 

Winner of the 2025 Charles Perry Prize: 

Sam Bisno (Brown University) “‘A Market Almost Unlimited’: The American Civil War, the Lancashire Cotton Famine, and the Industrialization of Irish Linen” 

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Previous Winners of the Charles Perry Prize Include:

Aaron Hoggle (University of Alabama)  "'Satisfie My Urgent Request': A Port Collector's Wife in Late Seventeenth-Century London”

Helen Shears (Duke University) “‘A Caske of Ice’: William Taverner’s Survey of Newfoundland”

Heidi Olson Campbell (Baylor University) 

Nick Sprenger (Rutgers University) “Empire and Its Outrages: Policing, Violence, and the Colonial Archive in Nineteenth Century Ireland”

Ms. Jessica Payne (Louisiana State University) “Charles I and ‘Elizabethanism’.”

Mindy Williams (Purdue University)

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