John Ben Snow Prize

Mark Hanna (University of California, San Diego) Pirate Nests and the Rise of the British Empire, 1570–1740 (University of North Carolina Press, 2015)

Stansky Prize

Thomas Laqueur (University of California, Berkeley) The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Princeton University Press, 2015)

Walter D. Love Prize

Guy Ortolano (New York University) “The Typicalities of the English? Walt Rostow, the Stages of Economic Growth, and Modern British History,” Modern Intellectual History, 12, 3 (November 2015)

Walter D. Love Prize Honorable Mention

Maria Zytaruk (University of Calgary) “Artifacts of Elegy: The Foundling Hospital Tokens,” Journal of British Studies 54, 2 (April 2015)

NACBS Dissertation Fellowship

Parissa Djangi (Stony Brook University) “Colonial Wives: Gender, Work, and Transcolonial Connections in the British Empire, 1780–1830”

NACBS Dissertation Travel Grants

Sonia Tycko (Harvard University) “Spirited Beyond the Sea: Persuasion and Consent in the Early English Empire”; Sarah Mass (University of Michigan) “At the Heart of the City: The Battle for the British Marketplace, c. 1925–1979”

NACBS/Huntington Library Fellowship

Parissa Djangi (Stony Brook University) “Colonial Wives: Gender, Work, and Transcolonial Connections in the British Empire, 1780–1830”

NACBS Pre-Dissertation Grants

Emily Rutherford (Columbia University) “Friendship, Civic Ideals, and Educational Communities in Britain, 1850–1920”; Kevin Luginbill (Northern Illinois University) “Building an Imperial World: Ideologies of Imperialism and the Tariff Reform Movement in Britain, 1900–1914”

NACBS M.A. Essay Prize

Thomas Bouril (Marquette University) “Forgotten Actors: The Agency of Female Kikuyu in the 1920–31 Kenyan Female Circumcision Controversy”