C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize
The Southern Historical Association invites
submissions for the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize for
2010 to be presented for the best dissertation in southern history
completed and defended in 2009.
The prize consists of a $3,000 stipend, and is funded by the
Woodward Fund, based on a very generous bequest left to the
SHA by C. Vann Woodward.Author should submit three copies of
the following by May 1, 2010, to the SHA Office:
> cover letter with full contact information
> title page, abstract, and table of contents of the dissertation
> sample chapter of the dissertation
> letter of support from the dissertation advisor
The full dissertation should not be submitted.
Based on the materials described above, the prize committee
will decide which candidates will be invited to submit the full
dissertation for further consideration. Any inquiries regarding
the prize and its guidelines should be addressed to the Secretary-Treasurer
Send submissions to:
The Southern Historical Association
Department of History
111 LeConte Hall
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-1602
2010 COMMITTEE
Dr. John C. Willis (committee chair)
University of the South
Dr. Virginia Gould
Tulane University
Dr. John Sacher
University of Central Florida
2009 C. Vann Woodward Award Winner
Benjamin E. Wise's, Cosmopolitan Southerner: The Life and World of William
Alexander Percy, Rice University, 2008.
Past Winners
2002 – Robert Perkinson
“The Birth of the Texas Prison Empire, 1865–1915” Yale University
2003 – Chandra Miller Manning
“What This Cruel War Was Over: Why Union and Confederate Soldiers
Thought They Were Fighting the Civil War” Harvard University
2004 – Edward J. Blum
“Reforging the White Republic: Race, Protestantism, and American Nationalism,
1865–1898”
University of Kentucky
2005 – Françoise N. Hamlin
“‘The Book Hasn’t Closed, The Story Isn’t Finished’: Continuing Histories
of the Civil Rights Movement” Yale University
2006 – Christopher Myers Asch
“No Compromise: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou
Hamer”
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2007 – Bethany E. Moreton
“The Soul of the Service Economy: Wal-Mart and the Making of Christian
Free Enterprise 1929–1994”
Yale University
2008 – Max Grivno
“‘There Slavery Cannot Dwell’: Agriculture and Labor in Northern Maryland,
1790–1860”
University of Maryland
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