Announcement of the 11th Annual Arnstein Prize Competition
The Midwest Victorian Studies Association awards annually a $1250.00 prize to help underwrite dissertation research in British Victorian studies undertaken by a student currently enrolled in a doctoral program in a US or Canadian university.
Proposals may be submitted in literature, history, art history, or musicology and should have a significant interdisciplinary component that will make them of interest to a range of Victorianists.
Arnstein Prize proposal forms may be requested from:
Micael M. Clarke
Associate Professor of English
Loyola University--Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Phone: (773) 508-2240
Fax: (773) 508-8696
For additional information contact
Micael Clarke by e-mail: mclarke@luc.edu.
The deadline for application submission is February 1, 2003.
Previous Arnstein Prize Winners and their Research Topics
2003: Deb Gettelman, Harvard
University (English) - "Reading and Reverie: The Art of Dreaming in
Victorian Psychology and Fiction"
2002: Narisara Murray, Indiana University (History and Philosophy of Science) - "From Native Places to Displayed Cages: On Becoming an Exotic Natural History Specimen in the London Zoological Gardens, 1851-1897"
2001: Amy Woodson-Boulton, University of California at Los Angeles (History) - "Temples of Art in Cities of Industry: Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham, 1880-1914"
2000: Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, Texas Christian University (English) - "'The Prose and the Passion': The New Woman and Gender Politics in the British Novel, 1880-1930"
1999: Kristin Brandser, University of Iowa (English) - "In Contempt: Women, Law, and the Victorian Novel"
1998: Lydia Murdoch, Indiana University (History) - "Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, the Home, and Child Welfare in England, 1871-1918"
1997: Nadja Durbach, Johns Hopkins University (History) - "'The Parliamentary Mark of the Beast': Anti-Vaccination in Victorian Britain, 1853-1898"
1996: Susan Paton Pyecroft, Central Michigan University (Architecture and History) - "The Social Meaning of City Halls in Glasgow, Manchester, Chicago, and Philadelphia"
1995: W.R. McKelvy, University of Virginia (English) - "Gladstone's Homer: Epic Theory, Nationalism and the Western Question"
1994: Brenda Assael, University of Toronto (History) - "The Rise of the Respectable Victorian Circus in Britain"
1993: Martha Stoddard Holmes, University of Colorado (English) - "Fictions of Affliction: Victorian Constructions of Physical Disability"
1992: Anne Helmreich, Northwestern University (Art History) - "Contested Grounds: Garden Painting and the Invention of National Identity in England, 1880-1914"