Awards News Archives – RSVP https://rs4vp.org/category/awards/ The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:46:47 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://rs4vp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/faviconR.jpg Awards News Archives – RSVP https://rs4vp.org/category/awards/ 32 32 Announcing the Colby Prize Shortlist https://rs4vp.org/2026-colby-prize-shortlist/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 05:02:00 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=12793

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 ...

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]]> Pick-a-Periodical with Katherine D. Harris https://rs4vp.org/pick-a-periodical-with-katherine-harris/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:08:40 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=12106

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 ...

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]]> New Work on Britain’s First Black Newspaper Editor https://rs4vp.org/new-work-on-first-black-british-editor/ Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:42:00 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=11429

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 ...

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]]> Revised RSVP Award Deadlines https://rs4vp.org/revised-rsvp-award-deadlines/ Thu, 12 Sep 2024 10:03:00 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=9114

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 […]

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]]> 2024 VPR Prize Winners Announced! https://rs4vp.org/2024-vpr-prize-winners-announced/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:35:00 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=9012 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, […]

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]]> Congratulations to our 2024 Curran Fellowship Winners! https://rs4vp.org/congratulations-to-our-2024-curran-fellowship-winners/ Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:15:45 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=4770 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 […]

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]]> Congratulations to Our 2023 Award Winners! https://rs4vp.org/congratulations-to-our-2023-award-winners/ Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:05:06 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=4599 image for Awards & Prizes

RSVP is pleased to announce the winners of our 2023 grants, fellowships, and prizes! Our Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize Winner We are very happy to announce that the winner of our third-ever Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize is Mila Daskalova for her dissertation, “Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum”! […]

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]]> Congratulations to Our 2023 Curran Fellows https://rs4vp.org/congratulations-to-our-2023-curran-fellows/ Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:04:38 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=4559 Our 2023 Curran Fellows have been chosen! RSVP received many strong proposals for this year’s Curran Fellowship competition. The Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible […]

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]]> 2023 Colby Scholarly Book Prize Winner Announced https://rs4vp.org/2023-colby-scholarly-book-prize-winner-announced/ Wed, 29 Mar 2023 19:41:18 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=4552 The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is delighted to announce the Winner of the2023 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded annually to the book,published in the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century press. The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of […]

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]]> Congratulations to Our 2022 VPR Prize Winners! https://rs4vp.org/congratulations-to-our-2022-vpr-prize-winners/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 16:45:54 +0000 https://rs4vp.org/?p=4403 Having been officially announced at our annual conference, congratulations to our 2022 winners of our Victorian Periodicals Review awards, the Rosemary VanArsdel Prize and our first-ever Expanding the Field Prize! VanArsdel Prize Winner The winner of this year’s VanArsdel Prize is Alycia Gilbert (University of Washington) for her essay “‘Her Speech Betrayeth Her’: […]

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