The Barbara J. Blaszak Prize is given annually to the best paper presented at the conference by a graduate student. Established in 2015, the award is given in honor of Barbara Blaszak, Professor Emerita of History at Le Moyne College. In recognition of our 75th anniversary, the 2025 prize carries a $500 cash award along with complimentary registration at next year’s meeting.
Past Winners
2024: Jeffrey Baron, University of Rochester. “The Lure of Fortune: Treasure-hunting and Migration in the Early Modern Hispanic.”
2023: Jessica Hogbin, Syracuse. “Death in Cortona: Debate on Proper Medical Care in Seventeenth Century Tuscany.”
2022: Jeffrey Baron, University of Rochester. “The Legality and Morality of Colonial American Grave Robbing.”
2021: Tanya G. Blakeley-Clark, University at Buffalo. ““But Did She Fyte?”: Sexual Violence, Consent, and the Law in Early Modern England.”
2019: Tyson Luneau, University at Albany. “Building the Empire: The Rise and Fall of Railway Construction in French Africa, 1879-1945.”
2018: Máire Fox, St. John’s University. “Anatomy as Visual and Performance Art in Victorian Britain.”
2017: Elżbieta Kwiecińska, European University Institute. “The Concept of the ‘Civilizing Mission’ and German, Polish, and Ukrainian Orientalism in a Global Perspective (1841-1918).”
2016: Sarah Patterson, University at Albany. “Chloroform, Clinics and Caps: The Medicalization of Reproduction in the United States and Great Britain.”
2015: Diana Moore, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. “A New Apostolate: Transnational Protestant and Mazzinian Women in Italian State-Building.”
Submission Guidance
Any paper submitted for consideration should be a serious academic work no longer than 15 pages, formatted in accordance with Chicago Turabian guidelines, and containing all applicable citations.
Attendees can only win the Blaszak Prize once but may be considered for other organization prizes in the future.
The winner is blind chosen by a committee of judges who are members of the NYSAEH Executive Board, based solely on the quality of the submission.
Submissions must be received by 26 September 2025. Email to tblakeleyclark@buffaloschools.org
**Please note that in order to be eligible for the prize, you must be registered for the conference.**
