J.G. Turner, They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth…

J.G. Turner, They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and the Contest for American Liberty (Yale UP).

Congrats to the authors! 😄🏆👏👏👏👏👏👏

The panel was also v impressed with 3 books who made the short list: @ncecire, Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge (Johns Hopkins UP); @simonhallwriter, Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s (Faber) and…

And now… drum roll… we’re proud to announce that the 2021 BAAS Book Prize award went to….🥁🥁🥁 Prof Kate Dossett for “Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal” (The University of North Carolina Press).

Congratulations @kmdossett ! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

And here’s a cheer to our Founders’ research assistance award winners:

Dr Aurélie Basha i Novosejt (Kent)

Dr Themis Chronopoulos (Swansea)

Prof Simon Hall (Leeds)

Dr Mark Shanahan (Reading)

Our ECR research assistance winners, Eleanor Bird & James Baxter, also deserve a round of applause 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 !

Congrats to our PGR research assistance award winners 🏆👏👏👏👏👏including @TimGalsworthy @VictoriaMShea @EmilyDHull @heymorguegirl @emma_rhodes

Next up: our recently reconfigured “research assistance awards”. They can be used to fund travel to the US OR to hire a research assistant and work remotely (thus decreasing our field’s carbon footprint and making it easier on people with caring duties/disabilities).

BAAS is also proud to celebrate our GTA winners who will be studying tuition-free for an MA in American studies in the US (with graduate teaching stipend).

Esther Adeyemo will be off to the University of Wyoming and Elliott Lelaure to the University of New Hampshire

Georgia Walton @LeedsUniAHC also earned an honorable mention for her essay “‘It was only the darkened house that could contain her’: Containing Forms in The Scarlet Letter”

Our PGR Essay Prize went to Elsa van Helfteren @EvHelfteren @SussexUni for her essay entitled “Lorraine Hansberry and Visual Solidarity” 🏆👏👏👏👏