About This Award
The Carl S. Meyer Prize, named for the co-founding editor of The Sixteenth Century Journal and one of the founders of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, professor of historical theology at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, as well as executive director of the Center (Foundation) for Reformation Research, is awarded annually for the best paper delivered at the yearly meeting by a scholar who is still in graduate school or has earned the Ph.D. in the last five years. The winning paper is chosen by a committee of three conference members appointed by the president who shall designate the chair as well. The committee shall be named by 1 January of each year.
Criteria for selection include:
- quality and originality of research
- methodological skill and/or innovation
- development of fresh and stimulating interpretations or insights
- literary quality
Papers placed in competition for the Meyer Prize cannot have been delivered at other conferences.
To be considered for the prize, presenters must give three copies of the paper as read at the conference to the Executive Director of the SCSC, who shall forward the copies of the paper to the prize committee members by April 1. The committee shall make its decision by August 15. The chair shall then submit the top-ranked paper to an expert in the field of the paper's topic. If the reader determines the work is not of prize-winning caliber, the second-ranking paper shall be submitted by the chair to an expert reader, and so on, until the winner is selected.
When the committee has arrived at the final decision, the winner will be reported to the Executive Director of the SCSC who in turn shall notify the winner. The winner must be present at the annual meeting to receive the award, which will be announced by the chair of the prize committee along with the presentation of the $500.00 prize. The Sixteenth Century Journal shall have first right to accept the paper for publication, once it has been revised from an oral presentation to an article appropriate for a scholarly journal. It is not necessary that the Meyer Prize be awarded each year. An announcement of the winner will appear in The Sixteenth Century Journal.
SCSC Administrator
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Previous Winners
- 2016 - William Keene Thompson, “Conflict and Compromise in an English Parish: Long Melford Under Edward VI” presented at SCSC Vancouver 2015.
- 2015 - Christina Squitieri, “O Loyal Father?: Aumerle, treason, and Feudal Law in Shakespeare's Richard II” presented at SCSC New Orleans 2014.
- 2014 - Amy Newhouse, “Bodies as Boundaries: Corporal Jobs and Contagious Disease in 16th Century Nuremberg” presented at SCSC Puerto Rico 2013.
- 2013 - Patrician McKee, “Scorning the Image of Virtue” presented at SCSC Cincinnati, 2012.
- 2012 - Michael Tworek, "Patavium virum me fecit: Study Abroad and Renaissance Humanism from Poland to Italy and back in the Sixteenth Century," presented at the SCSC Annual Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas, 2011.
- 2011 - Adam Asher Duker, "The Hermeneutics of Emotional Restraint: Calvin's Pastoral Theology of Imprecation in Comparative Context," presented at the SCSC Annual Meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Oct 15, 2010.
- 2010 - Prize is not awarded
- 2009 - Jacob Baum, "Incense and Idolatry: The Reformation of Olfaction in Late Medieval German Christian Ritual," presented at the SCSC Annual Meeting in St. Louis, 2008.
- 2008 - Anastasia C. Nurre, "Among the Philippists: The Identification of a Magdeburg Patrician in a Lutheran Confessional Epitaph"d Presented at the SCSC annual meeting in Minneapolis, 2007.
- 2007 - Adam G. Beaver, "A Holy Land for the Catholic Monarchy: Spanish Reconstructions of Palestine, 1469-1598" (presented at the 2006 SCSC)
- 2006 - Jonathan Reid, "Caught between Confessional Fronts"
- 2005 - John Frymire, "Rites of Appeasement: Suffering and the Defense of Catholic Ritual in Early Modern Germany"
- 2004 - John Frymire, "Rites of appeasement: Suffering and the Defense of Catholic Ritual in Early Modern Germany"
- 2003 - Robert Christman, "Literacy and Self-Determination: Confessions of Belief Composed by the Common Man in Central Germany c. 1575"
- 2002 - Suzanne Jablonski, "Neutralizing Violence: Images of the Hunt at the Court of Phillip IV"d(San Antonio, October 2002)
For more information click "Further official information" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
http://sixteenthcentury.org/prizes/meyer/