Prizes
A list of the prizes awarded to researchers in the School over the past five years.
2012
| Prize | Awarding Body | Recipient | Reason |
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| Best Article | Conference on Latin American History | Dr Camillia Cowling | “Funding Freedom, Popularizing Politics: Abolitionism and Local Emancipation Funds in 1880s Brazil,” co-authored with Celso Castilho, Luso-Brazilian Review (University of Wisconsin Press), 47:1 (Spring 2010): 89-120. |
| Beltane Senior Prize for Excellence in Public Engagement | Royal Society of Edinburgh | Prof Tom Devine | |
| Joint-third prize in Savings Banks Academic Awards | World Savings Banks Institute | Dr Eoin McLaughlin | |
| Book prize | 2012 British Association for American Studies | Dr Paul Quigley | For book "Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865" |
| Jefferson Davis Prize | Museum of the Confederacy | Dr Paul Quigley | For book "Shifting Grounds: Nationalism and the American South, 1848-1865" |
| Inaugural Sir Walter Scott > Senior Medal for Excellence in the Humanities and Creative Arts | Royal Society of Edinburgh | Prof Tom Devine | |
2011
| Prize | Awarding Body | Recipient | Reason |
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| Jeremiah Dalziel Prize | | Dr Tawny Paul | |
2010
| Prize | Awarding Body | Recipient | Reason |
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| Fellowship | Royal Society of Edinburgh | Professor Edgar Peltenburg | |
| By-Fellowship | Churchill College, Cambridge | Dr Jeremy Crang | |
| Hume Brown Senior Prize for ‘the best first book on any aspect of Scottish history’ | | Dr Gordon Pentland | |
| P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award | American Schools of Oriental Research | Prof Edgar Peltenburg | |
2009
| Prize | Awarding Body | Recipient | Reason |
|---|
| Visiting Professor | Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris | Professor Richard Rodger | |
| David Berry Prize for 2008 | Royal Historical Society | Dr Gordon Pentland | Betrayed by Infamous Spies - The Commemoration of Scotland's 'Radical War' of 1820 |
| Anniversary Fellowship for 2009-10 | Economic History Society | Ms Amy Lloyd | British perceptions of emigration 1870-1914 |
| Visiting Scholarship | St John's College Oxford | Dr Francesca Locatelli | Eritrean borderlands with Sudan and Ethiopa 1890 to 1952 |
| 'Choice' Outstanding Academic Title 2008 | American Library Association | Dr Martin Chick | For 'Electricity and Energy Policy in Britain, France and The United States since 1945' |
| First winner of the Teaching Prize | Economic History Society | Dr Martin Chick | |
| Winner of the Ratcliff Prize for ‘an important contribution by an individual to the study of Ethnology in Great Britain' | | Dr Wendy Ugolini | |
2008
| Prize | Awarding Body | Recipient | Reason |
|---|
| Caird Senior Research Fellow | National Maritime Museum | Dr Nuala Zahedieh | Jamaica and the Atlantic economy, 1655-1720 |
| R D W Connor Award | Historical Society of North Carolina | Dr Mark Newman | "Toward 'Blessings of Liberty and Justice': The Catholic Church in North Carolina and Desegregation, 1945 - 1974" |
| British Academy Senior Research Fellowship | British Academy | Professor Alvin Jackson | |
| Visiting Fellow | Zentrum fur Zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam, Germany | Dr Pertti Ahonen | |
| David Berry Prize for the best published scholarly journal article or essay on a subject dealing with Scottish history | Royal Historical Society | Dr Gordon Pentland | |
This article was published on Feb 14, 2013
