Book History Essay Prize Winners

Winners of the Book History Essay Prize have been: 

2012 Elizabeth le Roux, "Book History in the African World: The State of the Discipline"

2011 Eva Mroczek, "Thinking Digitally About the Dead Sea Scrolls: Book History Before and Beyond the Book"

2010 Spencer D. C. Keralis, "Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers"

2009 Elizabeth Yale, “With Slips and Scraps: How Early Modern Naturalists Invented the Archive”

2008 Joanne Filippone Overty, “The Cost of Doing Scribal Business: Prices of Manuscript Books in England, 1300-1483”

2007 Matt Miller, “Composing the First Leaves of Grass: How Whitman Used His Early Notebooks”

2006 Melissa Free, “Un-Erasing Crusoe: Farther Adventures in the Nineteenth Century”
         Special citation for a distinguished article by an undergraduate student awarded to Emily Oswald, “Imagining Race: Illustrating the Poems of Paul Lawrence Dunbar”

2005 Priscilla May B. Jurilla, “Florante at Laura and the History of the Filipino Book”

2004 Neil Safier, “‘...To Collect and Abridge…Without Changing Anything Essential’: Rewriting Incan History at the Parisian Jardin du Roi”

2003 Rebecca Rego Barry, “The Neo-Classics: (Re)Publishing the ‘Great Books’ in the United States in the 1990s”

2002 Matt Cohen, “Morton’s Maypole and the Indians: Publishing in Early New England”

2001 Eric Lupfer, “Before Nature Writing: Houghton, Mifflin and Company and the Invention of the Outdoor Book, 1880-1900”