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2024 RSVP Prizes and Award Winners

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is delighted to announce the following prizes and awards. We offer our congratulations to all winners, we thank all who applied, and we offer our deepest gratitude to all who served on the award committees, including: Alison Chapman, Julie Codell, David Finkelstein, Jennifer Hayward, Melisa Klimaszewski, Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee, Michael de Nie, Christopher Pittard, Michelle Smith, Clare Stainthorp, Richard Scully, Fariha Shaikh, Margaret D. Stetz, Caroline Sumpter, Marianne Van Remoortel, Minna Vuohelainen, Candace Ward, and Russ Wyland.

Colby Book Prize

The Colby Prize is intended to honor original book-length scholarship about Victorian periodicals and newspapers, of the kind that Robert and Vineta Colby themselves produced during their careers. The annual prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press.

This year's Colby Book Prize winner is W. Hamish Fraser for The Edinburgh History of Scottish Newspapers, 1850–1950 (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). The award committee noted that the book was "comprehensive, meticulously researched and argued, and impressively wide in scope."

In addition, the award committee singled out Graham Law's The Periodical Press Revolution: E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media (Routledge, 2023) for honorable mention. [End Page 692]

Mitchell Dissertation Prize

The Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize was established in 2020 to honor Sally Mitchell, a longstanding and highly valued member of RSVP who served on the organization's board and its senior advisory committee. The prize is awarded annually to the best PhD dissertation, defended in the previous calendar year, that explores the nineteenth-century British periodical press (including magazines, newspapers, and serial publications of all kinds) as an object of study in its own right, not as a source of material for other historical topics.

The winner of the 2024 Mitchell Dissertation Prize is Ellen Packham for her dissertation, "Literary Constructions: British Engineers and their Journals, c. 1760–c. 1860."

The committee also singled out Charlotte Lauder's dissertation, "Popular Scottish Magazine Culture, 1870–1920: Press, Print, Nation," for honorable mention.

Leary Field Development Grant

The Patrick Leary Field Development Grant is named for long-time RSVP supporter, board member, and former president Patrick Leary. Created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College, the grant is intended to support a researcher or team in creating resources that will facilitate the work of other scholars in their studies of nineteenth-century British newspapers and periodicals.

This year, there are two winners of the Leary Field Development Grant. Congratulations to Françoise Baillet, Clare Horrocks, and Sonja Lawrenson for their project, Punch's Pocket Book Archive, and Julie Sorge Way for her project, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine: An Open-Access Index. [End Page 693]

Peterson Fellowship

Named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP board member and vice president, the Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable them to conduct a research project on the nineteenth-century British periodical and newspaper press.

The 2024 Peterson Fellowship is awarded to Hannah Hudson for her project, "Magazines, Romanticism, and Imperial Knowledge: Identity, Commodity, Miscellany." [End Page 694]

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