Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize
The Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize is given to the best academic book in American Studies written by a New England scholar or about New England over a two-year period.
Please send an email to neasaawards@gmail.com and attach a PDF of your book or email with our Awards Committee to arrange postage of hard copies from your publisher. Please also include a one page author bio. Submit by April 15th for full consideration. Your book must have been published no earlier than January 2022 to be eligible. The cash prize is $500 for the winning book.
Mary Kelley Prize
The Mary Kelley Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the annual conference by a graduate student or non-tenure track scholar.
Please send an email to neasaawards@gmail.com and attach your essay of no longer than 25 double spaced pages along with a brief bio (250 words) and abstract (250 words) by April 15th for full consideration. You must be presenting the paper at the 2024 conference to be eligible. The cash prize is $250 for the winning essay.
The Lisa MacFarlane Prize (undergraduate)
The Lisa MacFarlane Prize is awarded to the best paper or project written and developed by an undergraduate located in New England on any subject related to American Studies.
Please send an email to neasaawards@gmail.com and attach your essay of no longer than 25 double spaced pages along with a brief bio (250 words) and abstract (250 words) by April 15th for full consideration. The cash prize is $250 for the winning essay.
2024 Award Winners
Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize
The New England American Studies Association is pleased to announce the winner of its 2024 Lois P. Rudnick award, which goes to Brian Micheal Murphy for We are the Dead (University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
The Mary Kelly Prize
The winner of the Mary Kelley prize for the best graduate student or non-tenure track scholar paper presented at the NEASA conference is Astrid Tvetenstrand for her paper “From Canton to Newport: Kingscote, Chinese Art, and the Transnational Circulation of American Taste.” Her work illustrates the close ties between trade, art, architecture, and wealth in nineteenth century Newport, Rhode Island.
The Lisa MacFarlane Prize
This year the winner of the Lisa MacFarlane prize for the best undergraduate project in American Studies is Ryan Doane-Ngyuen for their paper “Empire for Breakfast: Tracing Subtle Violence in Representations of Filipinos by the U.S. Wartime Press.” This work highlights how American newspapers reported on the Philippine-American War of 1899-1902 and how this shaped American views of empire, the Philippines, and Filipino people.