The Race and Empire Caucus invites submissions for the 2022 ASECS Race and Empire Caucus Graduate Student Essay Prize. The Caucus welcomes essays that are revised versions of papers read at the regional and national conferences of ASECS and its affiliates (including the Society of Early Americanists, Early Caribbean Society, SHARP, NABMSA, etc.) between July 1, 2021 and June 30, 2022.

The prize-winning essay will be considered for publication in the 2022-2023
volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and the prize will be awarded at the 2023
ASECS meeting.

The competition is open to papers on any topic that combines the multifarious legacy of post-colonial and/or critical race studies with the analysis of eighteenth-century literature and culture.

The deadline for submission is July 1, 2022. Essays should be double-spaced, maximum 5000 words in length, with the following information appearing only on the cover sheet: your name; institutional mailing address and e-mail address; name of conference, panel title; chair’s name; and date of presentation. Please send submissions in word document format to Kimberly Takahata (kimberly.takahata@villanova.edu) and Eugenia Zuroski (zuroski@mcmaster.ca). 

Past Winners

2020: Julia Hamilton

2019: Olivia Carpenter

2018: Kimberly Takahata