Recent Bradford-Delaney Dissertation Prize Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n(2026) “Port of Call to Arms: New Orleans and the Frustrations of Empire in the Greater Caribbean, 1835-1920.” Kyle Jackson (PhD, History, UC Berkeley), Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri.<\/p>\n
(2025) \u201cReconstruction through Rifles: The Role of Violence in Black Americans\u2019 Fight for Liberty in the Postemancipation Era.\u201d J. Jacob Calhoun (PhD, History, University of Virginia), Postdoctoral Fellow, Nau Center for Civil War History, UVA; Associate Professor, Wabash College.<\/p>\n
(2024) “Nativism and Conciliation: Border South Unionists and the Road to Civil War” Jesse George-Nichol (PhD, History, University of Virginia), Postdoctoral Fellow at the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia<\/p>\n
(2023) “\u2018Secession\u2019s Moving Foundation\u2019: Fugitive Slave Rendition and the Politics of American Slavery.\u201d Evan Turiano (PhD, History, Queens College, CUNY), 2023 Walter O. Evans Fellow at Yale University<\/p>\n
(2022) “‘Building the White Right of Textile Work:’ Dan River Mills and the Development of Schoolfield Village, 1882-1931.\u201d Ina Dixon (PhD, American Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Pubic Scholar, Storied Capital<\/p>\n
(2021) \u201cMass Incarceration in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation: Fugitive Slaves, Poor Whites, and Prison Development in Louisiana, 1805 \u2013 1877\u201d John K. Bardes (PhD, History, Tulane University), Assistant Professor of History, Louisiana State University<\/p>\n
(2020) “Reclaiming Appalachia: Mountain Reform and the Preservation of White Citizenship, 1890-1929.” Tina A. Irvine (PhD, History, University of Pennsylvania), Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Indiana University<\/p>\n
(2019) \u201cPlanters\u2019 Plots to Backlot Stewpots: Food, Race, and Labor in Charleston, South Carolina, 1780-1850.\u201d Kelly Kean Sharp (PhD, History, UC-Davis), Assistant Professor of Africana Studies & History, Luther College (IA)<\/p>\n
(2018) \u201cThe Man Who Started the Civil War: Southern Honor, Emotion, and James Chestnut, Jr.\u201d Anna Koivusalo (PhD, History, University of Helsinki)<\/p>\n
(2017) \u201cMarried to the Confederacy: The Emotional Politics of Confederate Widowhood.\u201d Angela Esco Elder (PhD, History, University of Georgia), Post-Doctoral Fellow at Virginia Tech Department of History & Virginia Center for Civil War Studies<\/p>\n
(2016) “Aesthetic Activism: Race, Ethnicity, Literary Experimentalism, and the U.S. South.” Chad Jewett (PhD, History, University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n
(2015) “‘A Second Degree of Slavery’: \u00a0How Black Emancipation Freed the Deep South’s Poor Whites.” Keri Leigh Merritt (PhD, History, University of Georgia)<\/p>\n
(2014) “Murder in the Shenandoah: Commonwealth v. John Crane and Law in Federal Virginia.” Jessica Lowe (PhD, History, Princeton University)<\/p>\n
(2013) “Gaslights, Progress, and the Old South, 1801-1865.” Phillip (Jay) Richardson, Jr. (PhD, History, University of South Carolina)<\/p>\n
(2012) “Georgia Imagined, Georgia Illustrated: Reading the Landscape, 1717-1859.” Christopher Lawton (PhD, History, University of Georgia)<\/p>\n
(2011) “Intellectual Manhood: Becoming Men of the Republic at a Southern University, 1795-1861.” Tim Williams (PhD, History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill)<\/p>\n
(2010) “The Builders of a New South: Merchants, Capital, and the Remaking of Natchez, 1865-1914.” Aaron Anderson (PhD, History, University of Southern Mississippi)<\/p>\n
(2009) “Executing, and Not Executing Criminals in North Carolina History.”
\nSeth Kotch (PhD, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)<\/p>\n
(2008) “Creating ‘a truly Democratic Party’ \u2013 Georgia Loyalists in the 1960s.” Tim Boyd (PhD, History, Vanderbilt University)<\/p>\n
(2007) “Merchants and the Political Economy of Nineteenth- Century Louisiana: New Orleans and Its Hinterland.” Scott Marler (PhD, History, Rice University)<\/p>\n
(2006) \u201cSuperfluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism and the South.” Jay Langdale (PhD, University of Florida)<\/p>\n
(2005) “‘They Have Made a Nation\u2019: Confederates and the Creation of Confederate Nationalism.” Ian Bennington (PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne)<\/p>\n
(2004) “The Fire Spread: The Origins of the Southern Holiness and Pentecostal Movements.” Randall J. Stephens (PhD, University of Florida)<\/p>\n
(2003) “Conjure in African-American Society.” Jeffrey Elton Anderson (PhD, University of Florida)<\/p>\n
(2002) “To ‘Cure Her of Her Pride and Boasting’: The Gendered Implications of Sherman’s March.” Lisa Tendrich Frank (PhD, University of Florida)<\/p>\n
(2001) “‘A succinct and formal violence’: The function of the duel in Southern fiction, 1825-1950.” Bradley Johnson (PhD, University of Connecticut)<\/p>\n
(2000) “Music and the Making of a Jim Crow Culture, 1900-1925.” Gavin James Campbell (PhD, University of North Carolina)<\/span><\/p>\n(1999) “Fictive Mastery: Slaveholding Widows in the American Southeast, 1790-1860.” Kirsten E. Wood (PhD, University of Pennsylvania)<\/p>\n
(1998) “‘The Projecting Spirit’: Social, Economic, and Cultural Change in Post-Revolutionary Northern Virginia.” A. Glenn Crothers (PhD, University of Florida)<\/p>\n
(1997) “Another Southern Renaissance: Sexual Otherness in Mid-Twentieth Century Southern Fiction.” Gary Neal Richards (PhD, Vanderbilt University)<\/span><\/p>\n(1996) “Rebuilding Zion: The Religious Reconstruction of the South, 1863-1877.” Daniel W. Stowell (PhD, University of Florida)<\/span><\/p>\n(1995) “The Political Economy of Time in the American South: The Evolution of a Southern Time-Consciousness, 1700-1900.” Mark M. Smith (PhD, University of Birmingham, UK)<\/span><\/p>\n(1994) “Raising Cane: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana’s Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880.” John C. Rodrigue (PhD, Emory University)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. George Tucker Society, an interdisciplinary scholarly organization dedicated to the study of the American South, seeks submissions for the Bradford-Delany Dissertation Prize. Honoring Melvin E. Bradford and Theodore C. Delaney, the prize recognizes the best dissertation written on the American South. The Melvin E. Bradford & Theodore C. Delaney Dissertation Prize was established […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}