About RSVP-related awards & fellowships
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2026 Robert & Vineta Scholarly Book Prize! The Colby Book Prize recognizes book-length scholarship published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century press of Britain and its empire. The committee has shortlisted the following three books for their excellent scholarship on periodicals of the long nineteenth century. The winner will be …
The Forget Me Not for 1825 and 1833 – RSVP is excited to welcome Katherine D. Harris to our next Pick-a-Periodical digital event on Friday, March 6. In a talk entitled “The Racial Anxieties of Polite Culture in the Forget Me Not British Literary Annual,” they will walk us through two volumes of the periodical: 1825 and 1833. The Forget Me Not, a literary annual title that first appeared …
Did you know that the first black newspaper editor in Britain lived in Victorian times? And that he was famous in his day, publishing hundreds of thousands of words and speaking before tens of thousands of audience members on key social and philosophical issues of his day? This figure was …
Update Your Calendars!To accommodate the significant planning and substantial lead time often required by awardees of the Peterson Fellowship, RSVP has slightly adjusted the Peterson application period to occur earlier in the academic year. To balance the award schedule, the application period for the Curran fellowships has been pushed back […]
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 VPR Prizes! Expanding the Field into Indian Children’s Periodicals This year’s Expanding the Field Prize goes to Nilkantha Pal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) for his essay “Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and Vernacular Publishing, […]
We are happy to announce nine RSVP Curran Fellows for 2024. The projects on which the Curran Fellows are working demonstrate the ongoing expansion and development of our fields of inquiry and objects of study. We very much look forward to hearing more about their work. Congratulations to: Ongoing Support […]
