The official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), the Journal of British Studies, has positioned itself as the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages through the present. Drawing on both established and emerging approaches, JBS presents scholarly articles and books reviews from renowned international authors who share their ideas on British society, politics, law, economics, and the arts. In 2005 (Vol. 44), the journal merged with the NACBS publication Albion, creating one journal for NACBS membership.
NACBS Undergraduate Essay Contest
North American Conference on British Studies Undergraduate Essay Contest 2012
Each year the NACBS awards twelve prizes of $100.00 each to the best essays on British topics submitted by undergraduates studying in American and Canadian universities.
Essays may be from any department –History, English, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, etc–as long as they relate to British Studies and date from 2011/2012.
Essays must have been written while the author was a degree-seeking undergraduate at a U.S. or Canadian college or university.
Essays should be no longer than 25 pages (please, no theses).
Submissions must be accompanied by a nominating letter from the professor who taught the course for which the essay was written. Nominating faculty must be current members of the NACBS. Please include the permanent mailing address and email contact information for the student.
Send a paper copy of the essay and the letter of nomination to EACH of the following 3 members of the adjudication committee by June 15th, 2012 (3 copies in total).
Dr Rich Connors
Department of History
University of Ottawa
155 Séraphin Marion Street
Ottawa, ON
Canada, K1N 6N5
Dr Guy Ortolano
101 Halcyon Hill Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
USA
Dr Lisa Surridge
Department of English
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC
Canada, V8W 3W1
RECENT AWARD WINNERS
Essay Contest Winners (2010)
Bolton, Cherish (California State University, Northridge), "The Curious Case of the 'Lennie' and the 'Caswell:' Mutiny, Xenophobia, and What a Briton is Not," nomina-ted by Prof. Jeffrey Auerbach, Department of History.
Buckwalter, James (Eastern Illinois University), "'A Master's Care and Dilligence Should Never be Over:' The British Government and Slave Shipboard Insurrections," nominated by Prof. Newton Key, Department of History.
Forster, Richard (University of Hawai'i at Manoa), "Mangal Pandey: Drug-crazed Fanatic or Canny Revolutionary?" nominated by Prof. Peter H. Hoffenberg, Department of History.
Pentz, Stephanie (John Carroll University), "Thinking Things and Visions In-carnate: Blake on Cartesian Dualism in 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'," nominated by Prof. John McBratney, Department of English
Roush, Chester (Loyola University of Chicago), "A Comparison of the Holy in Emily Bronte and Gerard Manley Hopkins," nominated by Prof. Micael M. Clarke, Department of English.
Essay Contest Winners (2009)
Auble, Cassie (University of Nebraska, Lincoln),"The Cultural Significance of Precious Stones in Renaissance England," nominated by Carole Levin, Willa Cather Professor of History and Director, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Bonawitz, Elizabeth (Carleton College), "'An Honest Englishman, or Good Plain Sense, of Good Plain Sense and Meaning?' or a 'Robust True-Born Briton?': English Constructions of Englishness, Britishness and Scottishness, 1690-1740," nominated by Susannah Ottaway, Associate Professor of History, Carleton College
Housden, Jessica (University of Virginia), "Labour, Leicester and the Ugandan Crisis: 1972-1979," nominated by Guy Ortolano, former Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia, currently at NYU
Townsend, Christina (Moravian College), "The Edge of Belief: Exploring Apparitions in Witchcraft Debate of Early Modern England Britain," nominated by Sandy Bardsley, Associate Professor of History, Moravian College
Essay Contest Winners (2008)
Croasdaile, Patrick Holman (Lewis & Clark College), "Foundational Principles: The Development of Post-Jacobite Separatism in Nineteenth-Century Scotland"
Gillmeister, Alison (Yale University), "The Incorporation of Travel Accounts into
Political and Religious Arguments: Late Seventeenth Century England"
Gubbins, John (Northern Michigan University), "Dame Juliana Berners: The Case of the Missing Sportswoman"
Su, Christine (Stanford University), "A Work of Its Time? Historical Influences on T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land."
