A Blogroll in Five Acts
Part of the experience of being an early-career researcher includes learning how to transition from graduate student to scholar and peer. While much of the advice about this transition centers around issues of self-presentation, these blogrolls will focus on the changes in how one funds the work. Some of us are lucky to have monetary support from within our home institutions or live in states or provinces with government sponsorships for the Humanities, while others less so. In this five-part series, I list the current funding sources available for scholars of Renaissance literature—with a focus on early modern drama—divided into relative period of a “typical” career trajectory.
Essay prizes and awards for conference papers are third on the list, with selection bias toward ECRs and first publications.
Conference Presentations
- Cambridge University Press Prize, American Society for Theatre Research
- Robert A. Schanke Theatre Research Award, Mid-America Theatre Conference
Essay Prizes
- Barbara Palmer Award for best new essay in early drama archival research, Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society
- Best article on a theatre history topic relying on REED-style records, Early Theatre
- Best article on the interpretation of a topic in early drama, medieval or early modern, Early Theatre
- Best note on any topic, Early Theatre
- Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for a Distinguished Publication on Christopher Marlowe, The Marlowe Society
- Essay or Article Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
- Gerald Kahan Scholar’s Prize, American Society for Theatre Research
- Grace Dudley Prize for Writing on European Culture, NY Review of Books
- Harold Grimm Prize, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
- Isabel MacCaffrey Award, The Spenser Review
- John Neale Prize in Early Modern British History, Institute of Historical Research
- Martin Stevens Award for best new essay in early drama studies, Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society
- Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize, American Society for Theatre Research
- Outstanding Article, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
- Renaissance Studies Article Prize, Society for Renaissance Studies
- Robert B. Silvers Prize for Criticism, NY Review of Books
- RSA–TCP Article Prize in Digital Renaissance Research, Renaissance Society of America
- SCSC Literature Prize, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
- William L. Mitchell Prize, Bibliographical Society of America
- William Nelson Prize, Renaissance Society of America
Editing Recognition
- Award for Excellence in Editing, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
- Collaborative Project Award (Edited Collections of Essays, &c.), Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
- Research Prize for Editing, Theatre & Performance Research Association
This is envisioned as a series that will ultimately end up as a stable annotated bibliography on a web page of its own. So please, if you know of or have yourself won any awards, fellowships, grants or others kinds of support for your research and writing net yet listed here, do let me know and I’ll add them.
- Vol. 1: funding opportunities for graduate (US) or postdoctoral (UK) students
- Vol. 2: general travel, conference, and research grants, including library fellowships
- Vol. 4: monograph research and publishing subventions
- Vol. 5: monograph prizes
