Hines Prize 2019 Call for Entries--Deadline for Submissions, May 15th, 2019

Simon Lewis Announcement
Location
South Carolina, United States
Subject Fields
African History / Studies, American History / Studies, Atlantic History / Studies, Black History / Studies, Slavery

HINES PRIZE 2019 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The Hines Prize is awarded to the best first book-manuscript relating to any aspect of the Carolina Lowcountry and/or the Atlantic World. The prize carries a cash award of $1,000 and preferential consideration by the University of South Carolina Press for the Carolina Lowcoountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) Program’s book series.

If you have a manuscript on a topic pertaining to the Carolina Lowcountry and/or Atlantic World, please send a copy to CLAW Director Simon Lewis at lewiss@cofc.edu before May 15, 2019. If you have graduate students with potential manuscripts that could contend for the Prize, please make sure that they know of this biennial opportunity.

Previous Hines Prize winners include:

2017 – Dr. Michael Schoeppner – Regulating Moral Contagion: Black Atlantic Sailors, Citizenship, and Diplomacy in Antebellum America

2015 – Dr. Huw David – The Atlantic at Work: Britain and South Carolina’s Trading Networks, c. 1730 to 1790

2013 – Dr. Tristan Stubbs – The Plantation Overseers of Eighteenth-Century Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia

2011 – Dr. Michael D. Thompson – In Working on the Dock of the Bay: Labor and Life along Charleston’s Waterfront, 1783-1861

2009 – Barry Stiefel – Jewish Sanctuary in the Atlantic World: A Social and Architectural History

2007 – T.J. Desch-Obi – Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Art Traditions in the Atlantic World

2005 – Nicholas Michael Butler – Votaries of Apollo: The St. Cecilia Society and the Patronage of Concert Music in Charleston, South Carolina, 1766-1820

2003 – Bradford Wood – This Remote Part of the World: Regional Formation in Lower Cape Fear, North Carolina, 1725-1775

For a full listing of the books in the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World USC Press Series, see https://claw.cofc.edu/usc-press/

Contact Information

Simon Lewis, Director

CLAW Program

College of Charleston

66 George Street

Charleston, SC 29424-0001

Contact Email
lewiss@cofc.edu