ASECS offers a variety of awards, grants, prizes, and fellowships to support scholars at every stage of their career. Below you can find information about available awards, submission instructions, and past winners.
Please note that many of the application procedures for ASECS awards and prizes change from year to year. Consult the individual pages for each award for up-to-date submission instructions. Thank you.
Please address any questions to: director@asecs.org
Prizes & Awards
Annual Meeting Travel Grants
- Graduate Student Conference (GSC) Support Fund
- Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) Fund
- General Conference (GC) Support Fund
- Arts, Music and Theater (AMT) Fund
- IASECS María Salgado Travel Grant
Book, Article & Essay Prizes
- Louis Gottschalk Prize
- James L. Clifford Prize
- Annibel Jenkins Biography Prize
- George E. Haggerty Prize
- Hans Turley Prize in Queer Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Pilar Sáenz Annual Student Essay Prize
- Srinivas Aravamudan Prize
- Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize
- Graduate Student Research Essay Prize
- Race and Empire Caucus Graduate Student Essay Prize
- Theatre and Performance Studies Graduate Student Essay Prize
- Women’s Caucus – Catherine Macaulay Graduate Student Prize
Service, Mentorship, & Pedagogy Awards
- Graduate Student Caucus Excellence in Mentorship Award
- Innovative Course Design Competition
- Shirley Bill Fund
- Presidential Award for Service
Research Fellowships
- Library Fellowships
- A.C. Elias, Jr. Irish-American Research Travel Fellowship
- Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies
- Women’s Caucus – Editing and Translation Fellowship
- Women’s Caucus – Émilie Du Châtelet Award
- Women’s Caucus Intersectional Prize
Research Travel Grants
2026 Prize Winners
ASECS Louis Gottschalk Prize:
Tie:
Mei Mei Rado, The Empire’s New Cloth: Cross-Cultural textiles at the Qing Court (Yale, 2025)
Dan Edelstein, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin (Princeton, 2025)
James Clifford Prize:
Oliver Wunsch, The Aesthetic Redeption of the Black Body in Eighteenth-Century France Art History 48.1
Annibel Jenkins Prize:
Janis Tomlinson, Goya: A Portrait of the Artist
Srinivas Aravamudan Prize:
Jacob Myers, ” Keeping the Rat-Book: Marly and Visceral histories of Jamaican Agriculture,” (Early American Literature, Volume 60, Number 1, 2025, pp. 21-41)
George E. Haggerty Prize:
Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson (editors): Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century
Innovative Teaching Award:
Taylin Nelson: “Coffee, Sex, and Tobacco in 18th-Century Public Culture.”
Race and Empire Caucus Prize:
Shruti Jain, “Paper Global Abolition and the Assemblages of Slavery in the Eighteenth Century.”
The Graduate Research Essay Prize:
Minji Huh, PhD Candidate in English at SUNY Albany, for “Biopolitics, Racialization, and Frankenstein.”
The Graduate and Early Career Caucus- Excellence in Mentorship Award:
Joseph Roach, Yale University
Ruth Mack, University of Buffalo
Catharine Macaulay Prize (Graduate Student Paper Prize):
Awardee: Faith Barringer, “The Delineated Breast: Race and the Maternal Body in French Eighteenth Century Portraiture”
Editing and Translation Fellowship:
Awardee: Aleksondra Hultquist, who is editing Volume 6 of The Cambridge Edition of the Writings of Aphra Behn on Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister.
Émilie Du Châtelet Award:
Awardee: Karenza Sutton-Bennett, “The Female Intellect: Emerging Counterpublics of Informally Educated Women Reading Periodicals in the Eighteenth Century.”
The Women’s Caucus Intersectional Prize
Awardee: Elena Deanda-Camacho, “Colonial America, Sexuality, and the Centering of the Margins”
2026 Fellowship Winners
Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Travel Fellowship: $500
Donal Thomas, “Native Knowledge from the Western Ghays and the Making of the British Empire”
Robert R. Palmer Research Travel Fellowship: $500
Carole Nataf, “‘Peinture d’histoire naturelle’: Anne Vallayer-Coster and the Making of a ‘Minor’ Genre in Eighteenth-Century France”
Aubrey L. Williams Research Travel Fellowship: $1500
Saar Shahar, ” The ammusement of those that staid at home”: Mai and the Consumption of the Cook Voyages
Richard H. Popkin Research Travel Fellowship: $250
Sara Penn, “Women in Book History: London publisher and bookseller Ann Lemoine”
Theodore E.D. Braun Research Travel Fellowship: $1500
Michael Mulryan, The Bastille as the porte du non-retour in Ancien Régime France: The Cases of the De Peck brothesr (1702-1714) and Aymay Pellissier (1717-1720)
Paula Backscheider Archival Fellowship: $1000
Kristina Gaddy, “The musical life of enslaved and free people of African descent in Barbados form the 1780s-1830s”
ASECS Huntington Library Short-term Fellowship: $3500
Christopher Catanese, “Georgic Ecologies: Nature, Poetry, and Ideology in an Age of Improvement”