Cunningham Prize awarded to Pennsylvania History
Join us in Celebrating another Cunningham Prize!
The American Historical Association has awarded its 2025 Raymond J. Cunningham Prize to an article that appeared in the Spring 2025 (92.2) issue of Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies. The article is “This Popular & Malcontent Temper”: Pennsylvania Currency and Transatlantic Commerce, 1720–1723,” by Claire DeVinney. She wrote the article while a senior at Millersville University and is now a student at the University of Rochester, New York.
The Pennsylvania Historical Association offers its heartiest congratulations to Claire DeVinney in winning this prestigious national award. The article had previously won the Pennsylvania Historical Association’s 2024 William A. Pencak Prize for best paper written by an undergraduate student. Her professor was Dr. Tanya Kevorkian. The article analyzed Pennsylvania’s political controversies over currency and trade from 1720 through 1723.
AHA established the prize in memory of Raymond J. Cunningham, who was an associate professor of history at Fordham University. It is awarded to the best paper by an undergraduate appearing in a history journal.
This is third Cunningham Award won by the Pennsylvania Historical Association in six years. The previous two were:
- Jubilee Marshall, “Race, Death, and Public Health in Early Philadelphia, 1750–1793,” 87.2 (Spring 2020).
- Jacqueline Wu, “The Chinese Labor Experiment: Contract Workers in the Northeastern United States, 1870–1880,” 90.2 (Spring 2023).