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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 next year's meeting
in Charlotte are eligible for the prize. To be considered, three
copies of a paper should be submitted no later than October 1,
2010 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 Charlotte meeting and its author presented
with a cash award.
2010 COMMITTEE
Dr. Jack Coski (committee chair)
Director of Library & Historian
Museum of the Confederacy
1201 E. Clay Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Dr. Dianne M. Sommerville
Department of History
State University of New York at Binghamton
P. O. Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
Dr. Elizabeth H. Turner
Department of History
University of North Texas
P. O. Box 310650
Denton, TX 76203-0650
Ben Schiller's paper entitled "Selling Themselves: Slavery, Self-Promotion and the Path of
Least Resistance" was the winner of the 2009 Holmes Award.
Past Winners
2000 – Scott Stephan
“Re-Creating Conversion: An Examination of Domestic Devotion in the
Old South”
2001 – Gavin James Campbell
“‘A Pure and Persistent Anglo-Saxon Lineage’: Race and Old Time
Fiddling in Atlanta, 1913–1925”
2002 – Bethany L. Johnson
“‘To Understand the South as She Was’: The Southern History Association
and the Troubled Transition to Scientific History, 1896–1907”
2003 – Judkin Browning
“Conflicting Visions of Freedom and Civilization: Forging New Identities
in Beaufort, NC, during the Civil War”
2004 – Edward Rugemer
“Robert Monroe Harrison, British Abolition, Southern Anglophobia
and Texas Annexation”
2005 – Chandra Manning
“Voting with their Fear: Confederate Soldiers and the 1864 North Carolina
Governor’s Election”
2006 – Benjamin E. Wise
“Traveling South: Will Percy in the World”
2007 – David Silkenat
“‘By His Own Hand’: Suicide in Nineteenth Century North Carolina”
2008 – Robert E. Luckett
“Ole Miss and Radical Reconstruction From James Silver to the Meredith
Movement”
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