The Albert C. Outler Prize
The Albert C. Outler Prize is an award of $1500 to the author of the best monograph, biography, critical edition, or bibliography published in the two previous calendar years or in manuscript, in ecumenical church history broadly conceived. "Ecumenical" includes topics relating to the quest for a fuller understanding or unity within Christianity or between Christianity and other religions. Up to an additional $2500 is also available, contingent on the recipient's need as determined by the Research Committee, for manuscript revision or printing subvention. Nominations must be received by March 1 in even-numbered years.
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The Philip Schaff Prize
The Philip Schaff Prize is an award in the amount of $1500 to the author of the best book published in the two previous calendar years, originating in the North American scholarly community, which presents original research on any period in the history of Christianity, or makes a significant synthesizing scholarly contribution. Nominations must be received by March 1 in odd-numbered years.
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The Jane Dempsey Douglass Prize
is an annual award in the amount of $250 for the author of the best essay published during the previous calendar year on any aspect of the role of women in the history of Christianity. Nominations or submissions, accompanied by a copy of the article, must be received by August 1.
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The Sidney E. Mead Prize
offered annually, is an award in the amount of $300 for the author of the best unpublished essay in any field of church history written by a doctoral candidate or recent graduate whose manuscript stems directly from doctoral research. The manuscript will be published in Church History, contingent upon incorporating revisions stipulated by the review committee. Entries must be submitted by July 1.
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Authors must have their work nominated for all the prizes listed above. To make a nomination, please send an email including the author's name, contact information, and the title of his or her manuscript to asch@churchhistory.org.

TO THOSE WHO SUMBIT OR NOMINATE:

Manuscripts, articles, or books may be submitted or nominated for one prize only, and will not be accepted in successive years for the same or different prizes.

2009 PRIZE WINNERS

Brewer: Randoph Ferguson Scully, George Mason University, Religion and the Making of Nat Turner's Virginia: Baptist Community and Conflict, 1740-1840 (Virginia, 2008)

Outler: Sidney H. Griffith, Catholic University of America, The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) (Princeton, 2007)

Douglass: Fiona J. Griffiths, “The Cross and the Cura monialium: Robert Arbrissel, John the Evangelist, and the Pastoral Care of Women in the Age of Reform,” Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (April 2008), 303-330.

Mead: Kyle T. Bulthuis, Metropolitan State College of Denver, “Preacher Politics and People Power: Congregational Conflicts in New York City, 1810-1830.”

2008 PRIZE WINNERS

Brewer: Heather Curtis, Tufts U, Faith in the Great Physician: Suffering and Divine Healing in American Culture, 1860-1900

Schaff: Harry S. Stout, Yale U, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CHURCH HISTORY DISTINGUISHED CAREER AWARD RECIPIENTS

2009 George M. Marsden
2008 John F. Wilson
2007 Andrew F. Walls
2006 William R. Hutchison
2005 Caroline Walker Bynum
2004 Robert Kingdon
2003 Elizabeth Clark
2002 Edwin Gaustad
2001 Martin Marty
2000 Robert Handy
1999 Jaroslav Pelikan

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS

A limited number of Student Travel Grants are available to student members participating in an ASCH conference.

To apply, Print this application form and send it to:

American Society of Church History
Department of History
Baylor University
One Bear Place #97306
Waco, TX 76798

Any inquiries may be directed to: asch@churchhistory.org.

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Research Fellowships will be announced.