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 Gottschalk Prize
Chair, Amelia Rauser, with Logan Connors and Rachel Carnell.
James Clifford Prize
Chair, Masano Yamashito, with Douglas Fordham, Terry Robinson
Annibel Jenkins Prize
Chair David Alff, with Rebecca Haidt and Robert Paulett
Srinivas Aravamudan Prize
Chair, Valentina Tikoff, with Sarah Benharrech and Blanca Missé
George E. Haggerty Prize
Chair: Susan Lanser, with Jason Farr and Kristina Straub
Innovative Teaching
Chair: Steven Thomas, with Juliette Paul and Linda Troost
Race and Empire Caucus Prize
Shruti Jain, “Paper Global Abolition and the Assemblages of Slavery in the Eighteenth Century.”
The Graduate Research Prize
Chair: Jonathan Haddad, with Adam Schoene and Helena Yoo-Roth
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”