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About RSVP-related awards & fellowships

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Revised RSVP Award Deadlines

Update Your Calendars!To accommodate the significant planning and substantial lead time often required by awardees of the Peterson Fellowship, RSVP has slightly adjusted the Peterson application period to occur earlier in the academic year. To balance the award schedule, the application period for the Curran fellowships has been pushed back slightly. The new deadlines for these awards are below:New Peterson Fellowship DeadlinesSeptember 15 – The application period opensNovember 15 – The application period closesNovember 22 – Recommendation letters are dueNew Curran Fellowship DeadlinesNovember 15 – The application period opensJanuary 15 – The application period closesJanuary 22 – Recommendation letters are […]

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2024 VPR Prize Winners Announced!

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 VPR Prizes! Expanding the Field into Indian Children’s Periodicals This year’s Expanding the Field Prize goes to Nilkantha Pal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) for his essay “Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and Vernacular Publishing, ca. 1880-1920.” This work impressed the judges “with its erudition, its broad scope of reference, and its nuanced application of Robert Darnton’s circulation model of print culture to a colonial context.” The Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and […]

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Congratulations to our 2024 Curran Fellowship Winners!

We are happy to announce nine RSVP Curran Fellows for 2024. The projects on which the Curran Fellows are working demonstrate the ongoing expansion and development of our fields of inquiry and objects of study. We very much look forward to hearing more about their work. Congratulations to: Ongoing Support for Periodicals Research The Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and […]

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Congratulations to Our 2023 Award Winners!

RSVP is pleased to announce the winners of our 2023 grants, fellowships, and prizes! Our Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize Winner We are very happy to announce that the winner of our third-ever Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize is Mila Daskalova for her dissertation, “Printing and Periodical Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum”! The dissertation examines periodicals printed in mental asylums in the United States and Britain between 1836 and 1878, and was described by the adjudicating committee as “exemplifying periodical scholarship of the highest tier. […] It generates a rich new understanding of how such periodicals operated in the asylum context—as a […]

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Congratulations to Our 2023 Curran Fellows

Our 2023 Curran Fellows have been chosen! RSVP received many strong proposals for this year’s Curran Fellowship competition. The Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually. Join us in congratulating the successful applications of: Congratulations to all!

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2023 Colby Scholarly Book Prize Winner Announced

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is delighted to announce the Winner of the2023 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded annually to the book,published in the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century press. The Colby Book Prize was endowed in 2006 in memory of Robert Colby by his wife, VinetaColby, both distinguished scholars and long-time members of RSVP. In 2011, following Vineta’sdeath, the Board of Directors of RSVP unanimously voted to re-name the prize to honorboth Robert and Vineta Colby for their many fine contributions to the study of Victorianperiodicals and their long commitment […]

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