NJSAA Graduate Student Research Project in New Jersey Studies Award

Established in 2012, the NJSAA Graduate Student Award recognizes excellence in graduate research projects including writings about New Jersey Studies. It is presented to a graduate student that best represents significant research and writing about any aspect of New Jersey history.  The winning author will receive a prize of $200 and the paper will be published in New Jersey Studies.

Evaluators are historians chosen for the breadth and depth of their knowledge of New Jersey and American history, including members of the editorial staff of New Jersey Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal. The NJSAA Graduate Student Paper Award Committee Chair is Carla Cevasco. 

Criteria for the award are listed here.  

Nominations for the NJSAA Graduate Student Research Project in New Jersey History Award are due September 30. 

Past recipients of the NJSAA Graduate Student Research Project Award are:

2015

Jonathan Cohen, University of Virginia, “This is Your Hometown: Collective Memory, Industrial Flight, and the Fate of Freehold, New Jersey."

2013

Jarrett M. Drake, University of Michigan School of Information. “Off the Record: The Production of Evidence in 19th-Century New Jersey." 

2012

Steven Elliott, Federated Department of History, Rutgers-Newark/New Jersey Institute of Technology, “Sustaining the Revolution: Civil-Military Relations, Republicanism, and the Continental Army’s 1780 Morristown Encampment.”  

Laurie Lahey, American Studies, George Washington University, “Too Much Singing: Christianity and the Limitations of Nonviolence in the Ghetto.”

Established in 2012, the NJSAA Graduate Student Award recognizes excellence in graduate research projects including writings about New Jersey Studies. It is presented to a graduate student that best represents significant research and writing about any aspect of New Jersey history.  The winning author will receive a prize of $200 and the paper will be published in New Jersey Studies.

Evaluators are historians chosen for the breadth and depth of their knowledge of New Jersey and American history, including members of the editorial staff of New Jersey Studies: an Interdisciplinary Journal. The NJSAA Graduate Student Paper Award Committee Chair is Carla Cevasco. 

Criteria for the award are listed here.  

Nominations for the NJSAA Graduate Student Research Project in New Jersey History Award are due September 30. 

Past recipients of the NJSAA Graduate Student Research Project Award are:

2015

Jonathan Cohen, University of Virginia, “This is Your Hometown: Collective Memory, Industrial Flight, and the Fate of Freehold, New Jersey."

2013

Jarrett M. Drake, University of Michigan School of Information. “Off the Record: The Production of Evidence in 19th-Century New Jersey." 

2012

Steven Elliott, Federated Department of History, Rutgers-Newark/New Jersey Institute of Technology, “Sustaining the Revolution: Civil-Military Relations, Republicanism, and the Continental Army’s 1780 Morristown Encampment.”  

Laurie Lahey, American Studies, George Washington University, “Too Much Singing: Christianity and the Limitations of Nonviolence in the Ghetto.”