MVSA: Walter L. Arnstein Prize

The Walter L. Arnstein Prize
for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies

Midwest Victorian Studies Association
The Midwest Victorian Studies Association announces the Seventeenth Annual Walter L. Arnstein Prize For Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies, a prize of $1,500 for dissertation research in British Victorian Studies undertaken by a student currently enrolled in a doctoral program in a U.S. or Canadian university. Proposals may be submitted in literature, history, art history, or musicology but should have a significant interdisciplinary component that will render them of interest to scholars studying Victorian Britain across a range of disciplines, approaches, and subfields.

Applicants must submit the cover sheet, a statement on their research, a current CV, and two letters of reference. Please see specific instructions in the application materials below.

Application forms:

  • Announcement
  • Cover sheet
  • Statement on research
  • Referee form

    The deadline for applications is 1 February 2008. The award will be announced at the Association’s 2008 annual meeting, to be held in Chicago, 18-20 April.

    Additional information may be requested by sending an email to arnsteinprize@midwestvictorian.org.

    The Association reserves the right not to make an award in a given year if, in the opinion of reviewers, submissions do not justify it.

    Previous Arnstein Award winners:

  • Anne Helmreich (Art History), Northwestern University, 1992
  • Martha Stoddard Holmes (English), University of Colorado, 1993
  • Brenda J. Assael (History), University of Toronto, 1994
  • William R. McKelvey (English), University of Virginia, 1995
  • Susan Paton Pyecraft (History), Central Michigan University, 1996
  • Nadja Durbach (History), Johns Hopkins University, 1997
  • Lydia Murdoch (History), Indiana University, 1998
  • Kristin Brandser (English), University of Iowa, 1999
  • Elizabeth MacLeod Walls (English), Texas Christian University, 2000
  • Amy Woodson-Boulton (History), University of California at Los Angeles, 2001
  • Narisara Murray (History & Philosophy of Social Science), Indiana University, 2002
  • Debra Gettelman (English), Harvard University, 2003
  • Anna Henchman (English), Harvard University, 2004
  • Robert Bell (English), McMaster University, 2005
  • Danielle L. Coriale (English), Brandeis University, 2006
  • Christopher Ferguson (History), Indiana University, 2007

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