SHGAPE Graduate Student Essay Prize

The Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era offers a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize open to graduate students of history whose research concerns any topic during the Gilded Age and/or Progressive Era. Essays will be evaluated based on their scholarly contributions to the field, originality, research, and prose. The winner receives $250 and a chance at publication in SHGAPE's peer-reviewed journal, the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. The winner will be announced at the annual SHGAPE Luncheon during the Organization of American Historians conference. Submissions should be no longer than 10,000 words and must use standard Chicago Manual of Style formatting following the submission guidelines of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Essays should not be previously published nor under consideration for publication, and applicants must be SHGAPE members at the time of submission.