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.
For this final post, a list of prizes for books.
- Barnard Hewitt Award, American Society For Theatre Research
- Beatrice White Prize, University of Leicester
- Biennial Book Prize, Society for Renaissance Studies
- Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
- Book Prize, University English
- David Bevington Award for best new book in early drama studies (non-Shakespearean), Medieval & Renaissance Drama Society
- David Bradby Award, Theatre and Performance Research Association
- DeLong Book History Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
- Diana McVeagh Prize for Best Book on British Music, North American British Music Studies Association
- Elizabeth Dietz Memorial Award, Studies in English Literature 1500–1700
- Herbert Baxter Adams (First Book) Prize, American Historical Association
- Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theater, New York University
- Leo Gershoy Award, American Historical Association
- Morris D. Forkosch Prize, American Historical Association
- National Book Award (US)
- Criticism, National Book Critics Circle (US)
- Oscar G. Brockett Golden Pen Award, Center for Theatre History and Criticism at the University of Texas-Austin
- Outstanding Academic Titles, Choice
- Outstanding Book, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
- Outstanding Article, Association for Theatre in Higher Education
- Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, Renaissance Society of America
- Prize for a First Book, Modern Language Association
- PROSE Award for Excellence in the Humanities, Association of American Publishers
- PROSE Award for Literature, Association of American Publishers
- Roland H. Bainton Prizes, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
- Roma Gill Prize, Marlowe Society of America
- Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award (as of this posting, no website listed)
- Theatre Book Prize, Society for Theatre Research
- William L. Mitchell Prize, The Bibliographical Society of America
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. 3: essay prizes and awards for conference papers, bias toward ECRs
- Vol. 4: monograph research and publishing subventions
