The William F. Holmes Award

In honor of Will Holmes' fifteen years of service as Secretary-Treasurer of the SHA, the Executive Council has created the William F. Holmes Award, to be presented every year for the best paper presented at the annual meeting by a graduate student or junior faculty member (anyone who received his or her Ph.D. within three years of the time of presentation).

Papers to be presented at this year's meeting in Richmond are eligible for the prize. To be considered, three copies of a paper should be submitted no later than October 1, 2008 to the office of the Southern Historical Association, Department of History, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1602. The paper should be no longer than fifteen pages of text and must be in the same form as will be delivered at the annual meeting. Each entry should have a cover sheet which includes the author's name, the paper title, and the institution for the Ph.D. with the expected month/year of graduation, or the month/year when the Ph.D. was received. A committee appointed by the president of the SHA will choose the winning paper, which will be announced at the New Orleans meeting and its author presented with a cash award.

2008 COMMITTEE

Dr. Larissa Smith Fergeson
Department of History
Longwood University
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909

Dr. Lacy Ford (committee chair)
Department of History
147 Gambrell Hall
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208-0001