The SEA's Annual ESSAY PRIZE
Call for Papers
Deadline:  September 30, 2003

In our capacity as the Americanist affiliate of ASECS, the interdisciplinary American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the SEA honors the entry judged the year's best paper on an early American topic, broadly conceived, at the ASECS conference or that of one of its affiliates during that academic year.

By "Americanist topic, broadly conceived" we mean simply that this annual competition is open to papers that address America in terms of both the long and the wide (i.e., circumatlantic) eighteenth century.

To see the current call for papers, click here. The officers of the SEA appoint the panel of judges each year. During the competition's first three years, each winner has graciously agreed to serve on the committee that will consider entries during the following year.

Awards to date:

 presented April 10, 2003, at the SEA Conference in Providence:

Vincent Carretta,
University of Maryland
for
"Who Was Francis Williams?"

presented April 5, 2002, at the Colorado Springs ASECS:

       Laura M. Stevens,
       University of Tulsa,
          for
"The Anglican Quest for Compassion: American Indians
  and English Deists in the Sermons of the Society for
   the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts"

presented April 20, 2001, at the New Orleans ASECS:

Michael Zuckerman,
University of Pennsylvania,
for
"Some Asiatic Prince: Pride, Patriarchy, and the Problem
of Generational Succession in the Early South"

presented April 14, 2000, at the Philadelphia ASECS:

Eric Slauter,
Stanford University,
for
"Manners and Taste in the Making of the Constitution"

This project originated under the auspices of the Society for Eighteenth-Century American Studies, the SEA's predecessor as ASECS's early Americanist affiliate.