Congratulations to our 2019 Prize Winners

Excellent historical scholarship is predicated on the diligence of talented students and educators. We are appreciative for all those who contributed to our annual awards — the editors, chairs, committee members, and our hosts at Indiana University of Pennsylvania — and especially the participants.

Please join us in congratulating our 2019 prize winners!

Philip S. Klein Pennsylvania History Prize

Michael B. McCoy, “’The High Price of Living’: The Lives of Insolvent Laborers in Jacksonian-Era Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, 1815–1842,” Pennsylvania History 84 (Spring 2017):  171-213.

Robert G. Crist Pennsylvania History Prize

Richard Kent Evans, “’A New Protestantism Has Come’: World War I, Premillennial Dispensationalism, and the Rise of Fundamentalism in Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania History 84 (Summer 2017):  292-312.

Pencak Paper Prize

Jubilee Marshall, “Race and Public Health in Philadelphia’s Burying Grounds, 1750-1792.” (forthcoming publication in Pennsylvania History)

Annual Student Poster Competition

1st Place: Adriana Vagelli (Pennsylvania State University – Abington College), Who was Thomas Weir? 

2nd Place: Nikol Damato (Slippery Rock University), Women and Scholarship: Women in Higher Education in Bellevue, PA, 1904-1914.

3rd Place: Nicole Stepp (Slippery Rock University), The Female Physicians of Bellevue, Pennsylvania in 1914.