1. Alex Tabor and Shelby Heisler, Slippery Rock University, “We Have had it Up to Here”: Murder, Riot and Civil Rights in a Western Pennsylvania Industrial Town
  2. Alexander Ames, University of Delaware, The Letter and the Spirit: Toward a Qualitative Method for the Study of Pennsylvania German Calligraphy and Manuscript Illumination, c. 1683-1855
  3. James Kopaczewski, Villanova University, William White’s War: An Irish-Philadelphian’s Experiences in the American Civil War