2025 prize winners
book prize
The FEEGI Book Prize committee is pleased to award its prize to Diego Javier Luis (Johns Hopkins University) for his The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024)
In The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History, Diego Javier Luis tells a new history of the early modern Americas: one that centers people of Asian descent and reorients us from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Tracing a 250-year history, Luis examines how free and enslaved Asians moved throughout the Spanish Pacific and colonial Latin America during the era of the galleon trade. In doing so, Luis pays careful attention to terminology, unpacking how the term “chino/a” shaped people’s experiences—and designated them as foreigners—within the New Spanish social order. This careful attention to this terminology enables Luis to recover how race operated in this imperial world centuries long before the conventional starting points of Asian America history. As the galleon trade displaced thousands of free and enslaved Asian peoples, colonial officials collapsed their diverse origins into a single label. Luis’s book traces how this label developed.
The subtitle of the book, A Transpacific History, attests to its expansive archival scope. Luis incorporates sources—often fleeting references—from archives in Spain, Mexico, the Philippines, and the United States. In doing so, Luis restores “the human element” to this imperial world. The book begins in Manila in 1603, where ethnic conflict catalyzed the forced movement of Asian peoples across the Pacific Ocean. It then turns to the Manila galleons bound for Mexico, paying close attention to the experiences of Asian sailors, criados (servants), and enslaved people during this grueling journey. Then it reconstructs how these newly-labeled “chinos” moved across colonial Mexico and navigated its legal and racial systems. Simultaneously expansive and detailed, Luis’s book exemplifies global microhistory at its finest.
Anyone interested in race, mobility, and empire in the early modern era will benefit from reading The First Asians in the Americas. Luis’s engaging prose, archival finds, and astute arguments make for a fascinating read.
FEEGI thanks the committee—Mary Draper (chair), Jakobina Arch, and Faisal Husain—for their hard work.
In The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History, Diego Javier Luis tells a new history of the early modern Americas: one that centers people of Asian descent and reorients us from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Tracing a 250-year history, Luis examines how free and enslaved Asians moved throughout the Spanish Pacific and colonial Latin America during the era of the galleon trade. In doing so, Luis pays careful attention to terminology, unpacking how the term “chino/a” shaped people’s experiences—and designated them as foreigners—within the New Spanish social order. This careful attention to this terminology enables Luis to recover how race operated in this imperial world centuries long before the conventional starting points of Asian America history. As the galleon trade displaced thousands of free and enslaved Asian peoples, colonial officials collapsed their diverse origins into a single label. Luis’s book traces how this label developed.
The subtitle of the book, A Transpacific History, attests to its expansive archival scope. Luis incorporates sources—often fleeting references—from archives in Spain, Mexico, the Philippines, and the United States. In doing so, Luis restores “the human element” to this imperial world. The book begins in Manila in 1603, where ethnic conflict catalyzed the forced movement of Asian peoples across the Pacific Ocean. It then turns to the Manila galleons bound for Mexico, paying close attention to the experiences of Asian sailors, criados (servants), and enslaved people during this grueling journey. Then it reconstructs how these newly-labeled “chinos” moved across colonial Mexico and navigated its legal and racial systems. Simultaneously expansive and detailed, Luis’s book exemplifies global microhistory at its finest.
Anyone interested in race, mobility, and empire in the early modern era will benefit from reading The First Asians in the Americas. Luis’s engaging prose, archival finds, and astute arguments make for a fascinating read.
FEEGI thanks the committee—Mary Draper (chair), Jakobina Arch, and Faisal Husain—for their hard work.
article prize
The prize committee awarded the 2025 FEEGI article prize to Thomas Glesener (Aix Marseille Université) and Daniel Hershenzon (University of Connecticut) for their article “The Maghrib in Europe: Royal Slaves and Islamic Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Spain” published in Past & Present in May 2023. In their winning article, Glesener and Hershenzon reconstruct the history of the hospital–mosque that served royal and arsenal Muslim Maghrebi slaves in eighteenth-century Cartagena Murcia Spain. They make the compelling case that Islamic communal institutions in European Mediterranean ports reshape our understanding of Islam and slavery in early modern Spain and the European Mediterranean more broadly. They creatively use available evidence including archival materials in Spain, and sources of Islamic law and community traditions, to examine unfree Maghrebi Muslims’ reasons for supporting this institution, providing novel insights into their social world. Framing their inquiry in both a Spanish Atlantic and a Mediterranean context puts this fascinating case of the mosque-hospital of the arsenal slaves into a thoughtfully global context that transcends some of our usual historiographical zones.
The prize committee also awarded an honorable mention to John Paul Paniagua (Cal Poly) for his article “Contesting Indigeneity in Colonial Cuba” published in the William and Mary Quarterly in July 2024. Paniagua draws on original archival research to recover the trajectories of two Indigenous pueblos in Cuba — Guanabacoa (outside Havana) and Jiguaní (on the outskirts of Bayamo) to thoughtfully challenge and historicize the myth of Indigenous extinction on the island and in the Greater Antilles. The article reveals why early modern people might have promoted or muted their "Indianness,” and how these choices were shaped by larger, hemispheric politics and processes. Speaking to early modern and modern debates about Indigenous survival in the Caribbean, its implications for the study of Indigeneity are far-reaching.
FEEGI thanks the committee—Kristie Flannery (chair), Madeline McMahon, and Stephanie Hassel—for their hard work.
The prize committee also awarded an honorable mention to John Paul Paniagua (Cal Poly) for his article “Contesting Indigeneity in Colonial Cuba” published in the William and Mary Quarterly in July 2024. Paniagua draws on original archival research to recover the trajectories of two Indigenous pueblos in Cuba — Guanabacoa (outside Havana) and Jiguaní (on the outskirts of Bayamo) to thoughtfully challenge and historicize the myth of Indigenous extinction on the island and in the Greater Antilles. The article reveals why early modern people might have promoted or muted their "Indianness,” and how these choices were shaped by larger, hemispheric politics and processes. Speaking to early modern and modern debates about Indigenous survival in the Caribbean, its implications for the study of Indigeneity are far-reaching.
FEEGI thanks the committee—Kristie Flannery (chair), Madeline McMahon, and Stephanie Hassel—for their hard work.
research travel award
The FEEGI Research Travel Award Committee is pleased to announce that it has awarded two prizes this year.
The first is given to Sydney Sweat-Montoya (William and Mary) to conduct research at the Archivo General de Centroamérica (AGCA) in Guatemala City for her dissertation on illicit logging settlements in the Gulf of Honduras from 1630-1795.
The second prize is awarded to Wenrui Zhao (Cornell University), who will travel to the Netherlands to conduct research in archives and museums for her project “Mining and Medicine between Central Europe and West Sumatra, 1650-1750.”
Thanks to the committee for their hard work: Nathan Marvin (chair), Arianne Urus, and Nicole Gilhuis.
The first is given to Sydney Sweat-Montoya (William and Mary) to conduct research at the Archivo General de Centroamérica (AGCA) in Guatemala City for her dissertation on illicit logging settlements in the Gulf of Honduras from 1630-1795.
The second prize is awarded to Wenrui Zhao (Cornell University), who will travel to the Netherlands to conduct research in archives and museums for her project “Mining and Medicine between Central Europe and West Sumatra, 1650-1750.”
Thanks to the committee for their hard work: Nathan Marvin (chair), Arianne Urus, and Nicole Gilhuis.
2024 prize winners
graduate student paper award
The 2024 prize for best paper presented at the FEEGI conference by a graduate student was awarded to Ursula Rall (Emory University), who presented the paper “Black Womanhood, Identity, and Urban Space in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.”
Thanks to the committee: Matt Romaniello (chair), Carla Pestana, and Ernesto Bassi
Thanks to the committee: Matt Romaniello (chair), Carla Pestana, and Ernesto Bassi
research Travel Award
The FEEGI Research Travel Award Committee is pleased to announce that it has awarded two prizes this year.
The first is given to Micaela Wiehe (Penn State University), for “Making Moves: Indigenous Mobility under Spanish Colonialism in New Spain, 1490-1750.”
The second prize is awarded to Rachel Tils (University of Tennessee), for “Marketing in the System: Policing the Antillean Internal Economy, 1763-1807.”
Thanks to the committee for their hard work: Adrian Finucane, Nate Marvin, and Carla Pestana.
The first is given to Micaela Wiehe (Penn State University), for “Making Moves: Indigenous Mobility under Spanish Colonialism in New Spain, 1490-1750.”
The second prize is awarded to Rachel Tils (University of Tennessee), for “Marketing in the System: Policing the Antillean Internal Economy, 1763-1807.”
Thanks to the committee for their hard work: Adrian Finucane, Nate Marvin, and Carla Pestana.
2023 PRIZE Winners
book prize
The FEEGI Book Prize committee awarded its prize to Tessa Murphy (Associate Professor, Syracuse University) for her The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).
In The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean, Tessa Murphy examines the eastern Caribbean islands that, until the Seven Years’ War, remained outside the sphere of European imperial control.
Murphy’s book is a brilliant examination of the Caribbean that moves beyond individual territories to show a deeply connected region defined by mobility between islands and regions. Diverse inhabitants moved through this watery “borderland world” creating an “interconnected creolized community” that defied European attempts to exert dominion.
In a geography of small, proximate islands, Indigenous Kalingos, free and enslaved Africans and a mix of European settlers used Indigenous technology, the canáoa, to forge connections between islands. Exploring the world shaped by Indigenous maritime technology Murphy emphasizes the “creole” nature of the archipelago, using this framework to underscore the centrality of indigeneity as a site of struggle and creation in the region. In so doing, the book pushes back against “a logic that serves to dispossess, and even disavow the very existence of Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.”
Across the book’s chapters, Murphy provides a new context for thinking about imperial claims to space and the sinew populations who created their lives between imperial claims. The book successfully decenters empire, moving ordinary people’s lives into view for the first time.
Murphy’s book does everything well. It draws from a deep archival base scattered across multiple countries and territories including Martinique, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Grenada, and Dominica. Both expansive and meticulous, The Creole Archipelago breathes new life into a vast array of sources.
FEEGI is delighted to award its 2023 book award to The Creole Archipelago for its groundbreaking examination of “islands beyond empires” and of local/creole and indigenous instrumentality in forging a Creole Archipelago.
Thanks for the committee for their hard work: Jim Tueller (chair), Adam Clulow, and Casey Schmitt.
In The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean, Tessa Murphy examines the eastern Caribbean islands that, until the Seven Years’ War, remained outside the sphere of European imperial control.
Murphy’s book is a brilliant examination of the Caribbean that moves beyond individual territories to show a deeply connected region defined by mobility between islands and regions. Diverse inhabitants moved through this watery “borderland world” creating an “interconnected creolized community” that defied European attempts to exert dominion.
In a geography of small, proximate islands, Indigenous Kalingos, free and enslaved Africans and a mix of European settlers used Indigenous technology, the canáoa, to forge connections between islands. Exploring the world shaped by Indigenous maritime technology Murphy emphasizes the “creole” nature of the archipelago, using this framework to underscore the centrality of indigeneity as a site of struggle and creation in the region. In so doing, the book pushes back against “a logic that serves to dispossess, and even disavow the very existence of Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas.”
Across the book’s chapters, Murphy provides a new context for thinking about imperial claims to space and the sinew populations who created their lives between imperial claims. The book successfully decenters empire, moving ordinary people’s lives into view for the first time.
Murphy’s book does everything well. It draws from a deep archival base scattered across multiple countries and territories including Martinique, the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Grenada, and Dominica. Both expansive and meticulous, The Creole Archipelago breathes new life into a vast array of sources.
FEEGI is delighted to award its 2023 book award to The Creole Archipelago for its groundbreaking examination of “islands beyond empires” and of local/creole and indigenous instrumentality in forging a Creole Archipelago.
Thanks for the committee for their hard work: Jim Tueller (chair), Adam Clulow, and Casey Schmitt.
article prize
The FEEGI Article Prize Committee decided to award its prize to Kristie Patricia Flannery (Australian Catholic University) for her article "Can the Devil Cross the Deep Blue Sea? Imagining the Spanish Pacific and Vast Early America from Below," The William and Mary Quarterly 79:1 (2022). Flannery makes an important contribution to scholarship on the Spanish Empire in the early modern world through the lens of vast early America, but in earnest, her work takes a global approach. She provides a creative reading of the inquisition records of Jose Maria Rodriguez not to relitigate his case but to explore how this impoverished and exploited soldier "imagined the Spanish Pacific" from below.
They also decided to award an Honorable Mention to "Rebecca's Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic Biography," Slavery and Abolition 43:1 (2022), by Randy M. Browne, Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet. Through a careful reading of a record from the Protector of Slaves in Demerara, the authors are able to piece together (with gaps) the life experiences of an enslaved woman named Rebecca from her youth through old age. Her claim offered a rare archival account of sexual exploitation during the middle passage and the legal strategies she used in her pursuit of freedom.
Thanks to the committee: Joanne Janke-Wegner (chair), Benjamin Hurwitz, and Kevin McDonald.
They also decided to award an Honorable Mention to "Rebecca's Ordeal, from Africa to the Caribbean: Sexual Exploitation, Freedom Struggles, and Black Atlantic Biography," Slavery and Abolition 43:1 (2022), by Randy M. Browne, Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet. Through a careful reading of a record from the Protector of Slaves in Demerara, the authors are able to piece together (with gaps) the life experiences of an enslaved woman named Rebecca from her youth through old age. Her claim offered a rare archival account of sexual exploitation during the middle passage and the legal strategies she used in her pursuit of freedom.
Thanks to the committee: Joanne Janke-Wegner (chair), Benjamin Hurwitz, and Kevin McDonald.
2022 RESEARCH TRAVEL AWARD
The FEEGI Research Travel Award Committee is pleased to announce that it has awarded two prizes this year.
The first is given to Ursula Rall (Emory University), for “Unraveling Urban Hierarchy: The Social Networks and Spatial Mobility of Women of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.”
With its important and innovative focus on inter-urban networks of Afro-descended women in colonial Mexico, Rall's dissertation will show how Black women, drawing upon the strengths of their social networks and alliances, worked to undermine the institution of slavery. The prize will enable Rall to travel from Mexico to Spain in order to conduct research at the Archivo General de las Indias.
The second prize is awarded to Casey Price (University of Tennessee), for “Given to This Land: Mapping Settler Colonialism in Kituwah, 1682-1810.”
Centering Indigenous and African voices and contributions, Price's dissertation examines the ways that maps were imagined, made, and circulated in eighteenth-century North America. This prize will take Price to the State Archives of North Carolina for close study of the John Grey Blount Papers.
Thanks to the committee for their hard work: Amanda Herbert (chair), Lauren Beck, and Mark Meuwese
The first is given to Ursula Rall (Emory University), for “Unraveling Urban Hierarchy: The Social Networks and Spatial Mobility of Women of African Descent in Seventeenth-Century Mexico.”
With its important and innovative focus on inter-urban networks of Afro-descended women in colonial Mexico, Rall's dissertation will show how Black women, drawing upon the strengths of their social networks and alliances, worked to undermine the institution of slavery. The prize will enable Rall to travel from Mexico to Spain in order to conduct research at the Archivo General de las Indias.
The second prize is awarded to Casey Price (University of Tennessee), for “Given to This Land: Mapping Settler Colonialism in Kituwah, 1682-1810.”
Centering Indigenous and African voices and contributions, Price's dissertation examines the ways that maps were imagined, made, and circulated in eighteenth-century North America. This prize will take Price to the State Archives of North Carolina for close study of the John Grey Blount Papers.
Thanks to the committee for their hard work: Amanda Herbert (chair), Lauren Beck, and Mark Meuwese
2021 PRIZE WINNERS
The FEEGI Book Prize committee awarded its prize to Céline Carayon (Associate Professor, Salisbury University) for her Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among the French and Indigenous People in the Americas (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
In Eloquence Embodied, Céline Carayon has written a groundbreaking study of non-verbal communication. Her analysis is wonderfully broad and deep, with primary sources from Brazil, Canada, Florida, and the Caribbean. She explores early contacts between a great number of First Nations and a variety of French and other early colonists in both North and South America. Professor Carayon balances the North American core with investigations of the European context, and how communication changed because of the North and South American contacts – making it truly comprehensive. The book also connects to the history of the body, history of the senses, history of emotions, and well as diplomatic history. FEEGI is pleased to award this magnum opus its 2021 book award for its engagement with early-modern empires and its impressive examination of global interaction.
Thanks for the committee for their hard work: Jim Tueller (chair), Jack Bouchard, and Lisa Hellman
The FEEGI Article Prize Committee unanimously decided to award the prize to Elisabeth A. Fraser (Professor of Art History, University of South Florida) for her chapter “The Ottoman Costume Album as Mobile Object and Agent of Contact,” in The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Art of Travel, ed. Elizabeth Fraser (New York: Routledge, 2019): 91-114.
They also decided to award an Honorable Mention to Duygu Yildirim (PhD candidate in History, Stanford University) for “Bevanda Asiatica: Scholarly Exchange between the Ottomans and Europeans on Coffee,” Osmanlı Araştırmaları / The Journal of Ottoman Studies LVI (2020): 25-48.
While discussing an impressive collection of entries the committee felt especially called to reflect FEEGI’s global perspective, and to move away from a focus on the Atlantic World that has characterized most of the (highly deserving) past prize winners. They were particularly impressed by both scholars’ use of non-European sources, attention to the role of the Ottoman empire, emphasis on different aspects of cross-cultural exchange, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to the subject.
Thanks to the committee: Linda Rupert (chair), Jane Hooper, and Asheesh Siddique
The FEEGI Research Travel Award Committee decided to award the grant to Matthijs Tieleman (PhD Candidate in History, UCLA), for his project, “The Patriot Atlantic.”
He will use the funding to support travel to archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland. His project explores the interconnectedness of the American, Dutch, and Irish revolutions.
Thanks for the committee: Troy Bickham (chair), Adrian Finucane, and Erika Monahan
In Eloquence Embodied, Céline Carayon has written a groundbreaking study of non-verbal communication. Her analysis is wonderfully broad and deep, with primary sources from Brazil, Canada, Florida, and the Caribbean. She explores early contacts between a great number of First Nations and a variety of French and other early colonists in both North and South America. Professor Carayon balances the North American core with investigations of the European context, and how communication changed because of the North and South American contacts – making it truly comprehensive. The book also connects to the history of the body, history of the senses, history of emotions, and well as diplomatic history. FEEGI is pleased to award this magnum opus its 2021 book award for its engagement with early-modern empires and its impressive examination of global interaction.
Thanks for the committee for their hard work: Jim Tueller (chair), Jack Bouchard, and Lisa Hellman
The FEEGI Article Prize Committee unanimously decided to award the prize to Elisabeth A. Fraser (Professor of Art History, University of South Florida) for her chapter “The Ottoman Costume Album as Mobile Object and Agent of Contact,” in The Mobility of People and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Art of Travel, ed. Elizabeth Fraser (New York: Routledge, 2019): 91-114.
They also decided to award an Honorable Mention to Duygu Yildirim (PhD candidate in History, Stanford University) for “Bevanda Asiatica: Scholarly Exchange between the Ottomans and Europeans on Coffee,” Osmanlı Araştırmaları / The Journal of Ottoman Studies LVI (2020): 25-48.
While discussing an impressive collection of entries the committee felt especially called to reflect FEEGI’s global perspective, and to move away from a focus on the Atlantic World that has characterized most of the (highly deserving) past prize winners. They were particularly impressed by both scholars’ use of non-European sources, attention to the role of the Ottoman empire, emphasis on different aspects of cross-cultural exchange, as well as an interdisciplinary approach to the subject.
Thanks to the committee: Linda Rupert (chair), Jane Hooper, and Asheesh Siddique
The FEEGI Research Travel Award Committee decided to award the grant to Matthijs Tieleman (PhD Candidate in History, UCLA), for his project, “The Patriot Atlantic.”
He will use the funding to support travel to archives in the United Kingdom and Ireland. His project explores the interconnectedness of the American, Dutch, and Irish revolutions.
Thanks for the committee: Troy Bickham (chair), Adrian Finucane, and Erika Monahan
2020 PRIZE WINNERS
Itinerario Prize
The 2020 Itinerario Prize was awarded to Nicholas Lewis (Saint Louis University) for his paper "Revisiting De Christiana Expeditione as an Artifact of Globalization."
Thanks to the committee:
Carolien Stolte (chair), Kris Lane, and Cyrus Schayegh
The 2020 Itinerario Prize was awarded to Nicholas Lewis (Saint Louis University) for his paper "Revisiting De Christiana Expeditione as an Artifact of Globalization."
Thanks to the committee:
Carolien Stolte (chair), Kris Lane, and Cyrus Schayegh
Graduate Paper Prize
The 2020 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student was awarded to Chad M. Attenborough (Vanderbilt University), who presented on “Revolutionary Poisonings and Punitive Power in Early British Trinidad,” and to Lisl Schoepflin (UCLA) for her paper on "Como Sus Menores y Humildes Vasallos: The Making of Inca Nobility in the Early Chronicle by Martin de Murúa."
Thanks to the committee:
Amanda Herbert (chair), Silvia Mitchell, and David Freeman
The 2020 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student was awarded to Chad M. Attenborough (Vanderbilt University), who presented on “Revolutionary Poisonings and Punitive Power in Early British Trinidad,” and to Lisl Schoepflin (UCLA) for her paper on "Como Sus Menores y Humildes Vasallos: The Making of Inca Nobility in the Early Chronicle by Martin de Murúa."
Thanks to the committee:
Amanda Herbert (chair), Silvia Mitchell, and David Freeman
PAST PRIZE WINNERS
2019
Book Prize
WINNER of the 2019 Book Prize is Elena A. Schneider, for: The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press on behalf of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2018).
Thanks to the committee:
Wim Klooster (chair), Christophe Boucher, and Katherine Grandjean
WINNER of the 2019 Book Prize is Elena A. Schneider, for: The Occupation of Havana: War, Trade, and Slavery in the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press on behalf of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2018).
Thanks to the committee:
Wim Klooster (chair), Christophe Boucher, and Katherine Grandjean
Article Prize
WINNER for the 2019 Article Prize is Chris Evans (with co-author Göran Rydén), for: “‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, its European Origins, and West African Impact,” Past & Present 239:1 (2018), 41-70.
Thanks to the committee:
Sebastian Prange (chair), Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, and Ryan Jones
WINNER for the 2019 Article Prize is Chris Evans (with co-author Göran Rydén), for: “‘Voyage Iron’: An Atlantic Slave Trade Currency, its European Origins, and West African Impact,” Past & Present 239:1 (2018), 41-70.
Thanks to the committee:
Sebastian Prange (chair), Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, and Ryan Jones
Research Travel Award
The 2019 Travel Award is given to Randal Kleiser (Columbia University), for his project on Spain's experiment granting “free trade” rights to the almost unknown Atlantic port of San Fernando de Monte Cristi, on the north coast of today's Dominican Republic.
Thanks to the committee:
Jane Landers (chair), Peter Arnade, and Giorgio Riello
The 2019 Travel Award is given to Randal Kleiser (Columbia University), for his project on Spain's experiment granting “free trade” rights to the almost unknown Atlantic port of San Fernando de Monte Cristi, on the north coast of today's Dominican Republic.
Thanks to the committee:
Jane Landers (chair), Peter Arnade, and Giorgio Riello
2018
Research Travel Award
The 2018 Travel Award was given to Casey Schmitt (College of William and Mary), for her project "Bound among Nations: Labor Coercion in the Early Seventeenth-Century Caribbean."
The 2018 Travel Award was given to Casey Schmitt (College of William and Mary), for her project "Bound among Nations: Labor Coercion in the Early Seventeenth-Century Caribbean."
Graduate Paper Prize
The 2018 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student was awarded to Jack B. Bouchard (University of Pittsburgh), who presented on "Newfoundland and the Problem of Atlantic History in the Sixteenth Century."
The runner-up was Marie Schreier (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen) for her paper "Indigenous Agency as Threat: The Case of Late Seventeenth Century Panama."
The 2018 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student was awarded to Jack B. Bouchard (University of Pittsburgh), who presented on "Newfoundland and the Problem of Atlantic History in the Sixteenth Century."
The runner-up was Marie Schreier (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen) for her paper "Indigenous Agency as Threat: The Case of Late Seventeenth Century Panama."
2017
Book Prize
WINNER of the 2017 Book Prize is Wim Klooster (Clark University), for: The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016)
WINNER of the 2017 Book Prize is Wim Klooster (Clark University), for: The Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Cornell University Press, 2016)
Article Prize
WINNER of the 2017 Article Prize is Marjoleine Kars (University of Maryland - Baltimore County), for "Dodging Rebellion: Politics and Gender in the Berbice Slave Uprising of 1763," American Historical Review 121:1 (Feb. 2016), 39-69.
WINNER of the 2017 Article Prize is Marjoleine Kars (University of Maryland - Baltimore County), for "Dodging Rebellion: Politics and Gender in the Berbice Slave Uprising of 1763," American Historical Review 121:1 (Feb. 2016), 39-69.
Research Travel Award
The 2017 Travel Award was given to Richard Blakemore (University of Reading), for his project "Empires Below Deck: Seafarers, State and Society in Britain and the Atlantic, 1580-1730."
The 2017 Travel Award was given to Richard Blakemore (University of Reading), for his project "Empires Below Deck: Seafarers, State and Society in Britain and the Atlantic, 1580-1730."
2015
Book Prize
WINNER of the 2015 Book Prize is Adam Clulow (Monash University) for: The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University Press, 2014).
WINNER of the 2015 Book Prize is Adam Clulow (Monash University) for: The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (Columbia University Press, 2014).
Article Prize
WINNER of the 2015 Article Prize is Jonathan P. Eacott (UC Riverside), for: "Making an Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Atlantic Colonies, and the Structure of the British Empire.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 69:4 (October 2012), 731-762.
WINNER of the 2015 Article Prize is Jonathan P. Eacott (UC Riverside), for: "Making an Imperial Compromise: The Calico Acts, the Atlantic Colonies, and the Structure of the British Empire.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, 69:4 (October 2012), 731-762.
Research Travel Award
The 2015 Research Travel Award was given to Martha Chaiklin (Zayed University), for her project “Tusks to Treasure: Ivory in Early Modern Asia, 1600-1850.”
The 2015 Research Travel Award was given to Martha Chaiklin (Zayed University), for her project “Tusks to Treasure: Ivory in Early Modern Asia, 1600-1850.”
2013
Book Prize
WINNER of the 2013 Book Prize is Brett Rushforth (Associate Professor of History, William and Mary) for: Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2012).
WINNER of the 2013 Book Prize is Brett Rushforth (Associate Professor of History, William and Mary) for: Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (University of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2012).
Article Prize
WINNER of the 2013 Article Prize is Sebastian Prange (Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia) for:
"A Trade of No Dishonor: Piracy, Commerce, and Community in the Western Indian Ocean, Twelfth to Sixteenth Century,” published in American Historical Review, Volume 116 (2011).
Honorable mention for the Article Prize is awarded to Randy M. Browne (Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University) for his article, “The ‘Bad Business’ of Obeah: Power, Authority, and the Politics of Slave Culture in the British Caribbean,” published in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, Volume 68 (2011).
Graduate Paper Prize
The 2012 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student was awarded to Ernesto Bassi for:"Turning South before Swinging East: Geopolitics and Geopolitical Imagination in the Southwestern Caribbean after the American Revolution"
Ernesto was a grad student in the History Department at UC Irvine when he presented at the April 2012 FEEGI meeting. He has since completed his dissertation and is now an assistant professor at Cornell University.
WINNER of the 2013 Article Prize is Sebastian Prange (Assistant Professor of History, University of British Columbia) for:
"A Trade of No Dishonor: Piracy, Commerce, and Community in the Western Indian Ocean, Twelfth to Sixteenth Century,” published in American Historical Review, Volume 116 (2011).
Honorable mention for the Article Prize is awarded to Randy M. Browne (Assistant Professor of History, Xavier University) for his article, “The ‘Bad Business’ of Obeah: Power, Authority, and the Politics of Slave Culture in the British Caribbean,” published in William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd series, Volume 68 (2011).
Graduate Paper Prize
The 2012 prize for best paper presented by a graduate student was awarded to Ernesto Bassi for:"Turning South before Swinging East: Geopolitics and Geopolitical Imagination in the Southwestern Caribbean after the American Revolution"
Ernesto was a grad student in the History Department at UC Irvine when he presented at the April 2012 FEEGI meeting. He has since completed his dissertation and is now an assistant professor at Cornell University.