THE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES ANNOUNCES THE WINNERS OF ITS 2001 PRIZES FOR SCHOLARSHIP
	JOHN BEN SNOW PRIZE (BEST BOOK OF 2000 IN HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES BEFORE 1800)  Keith Wrightson, (Department of History, Yale University) Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
	BRITISH COUNCIL PRIZE (BEST BOOK OF 2000 ON THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES)  Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (Department of History, University of Illinois at Chicago) Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption 1939-1955 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
	Honorable Mention:  Erika Diane Rappaport (Department of History, University of California at Santa Barbara) Shopping for Pleasure: Women in the Making of London's West End (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).
	WALTER D. LOVE PRIZE (FOR THE BEST ARTICLE IN ANY FIELD OF BRITISH STUDIES)  Peter H. Hansen (Department of Humanities and Arts, Worcester Polytechnic Institute), "Confetti of Empire: The Conquest of Everest in Nepal, India, Britain, and New Zealand," Comparative Studies in Society and History 42, 2 (April 2000), 307-322.
	NACBS-DISSERTATION YEAR FELLOWSHIP:  Michelle Wolfe, Department of History, Ohio State University, "'The House of Levi Apart and Their Wives Apart': The Social Transformation of Clerical Wives in Post-Reformation England, 1560-1700"
	Runner-up:  Ariann Chernock, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley, "'Intellect Admits of No Sexual Distinction': Men in British Feminism, 1789-1832"
	NACBS-HUNTINGTON LIBRARY FELLOWSHIP:   Robin Hermann, Department of History, Washington University, "The Crisis of Coin in Early Modern England"
	PCCBS GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE:  At the 28th annual meeting and conference at the Stanford University April 6-8, 2001, the PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES awarded Jason M. Kelly its "PCCBS Graduate Student Prize." His paper, "The Public Sphere in Practice: The Case of the Society of Dilettanti," was delivered to the PCCBS conference held at the University of California, Santa Barbara in April 2000. A student of Professor Anita Guerrini, Mr. Kelly showed in his paper the promise, insight, and historical acuity sought by the prize committee.
	PRIZE COMPETITIONS:
	THE NACBS ANNOUNCES ITS PRIZE COMPETITIONS FOR 2002
	Announcements of 2002 NACBS Prize Competitions will be posted on the NACBS website at http://www.nacbs.org/NACBS/
	PCCBS Graduate Student Prize Competition: The PCCBS calls again for entries, submitted by graduate students, for the prize to be awarded at its annual meeting at Pomona College, Claremont Colleges, 5-7 April 2002. Both the student and the major professor must be members of the PCCBS. The submitted entry will have been presented to the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies at Stanford University in April 2001 or (in the case of a graduate student studying at a university within the PCCBS region) to any conference during the 2001 calendar year. The essay mirroring the oral paper as delivered must be based on original research, meet scholarly standards, and must deal with a topic centering on British studies. Excursive footnotes may be added. The winner will receive a monetary prize and will be recognized at the annual PCCBS Conference, which in 2002 will meet at Pomona College, 5-7 April 2002.  Send essay and a copy of the program by 15 February 2002 to Prof. Robert Woods, Chair PCCBS Prize Committee, Department of History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA 91711. Inquiries to RWoods@Pomona.Edu.  Graduate student membership in the PCCBS is $5.00, while full membership is $10.00. Inquiries to Prof. Douglas Haynes, PCCBS Secretary, Department of History, University of California, Irvine CA 92697-3275.
	Eleventh Annual Walter L. Arnstein Prize Competition For Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies The Midwest Victorian Studies Association annually awards a $1250.00 prize to help underwrite dissertation research in British Victorian studies undertaken by a student currently enrolled in a doctoral program in a US or Canadian university. Proposals may be submitted in literature, history, art history, musicology, or any other field of nineteenth-century studies, and should have a significant interdisciplinary component that will make them of interest to a range of Victorianists. The deadline for submissions for the 2002 award is February 1, 2002. The award will be announced at the Association's 2002 annual meeting, to be held in Chicago on April 19-20, 2002.  For further information and application materials, contact: Michael M. Clarke, Department of English, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, ILLINOIS 60626,  ph: (773)508-2244; fax: 773/508-8696; mclarke@luc.edu.