Philip Gleason Prize for the best published article by a graduate student in History

The prize is semi-annual. (During 2018–21, it was awarded annually.)

The prize honors Professor Emeritus J. Philip Gleason (1927–), a leading scholar of American Catholic history and more generally US social and intellectual history, who taught at Notre Dame from 1959 until his retirement in 1996.

2023

Jorge Puma Crespo

Assistant Professor of History, Hope College, Holland MI

“The Nazas-Aguanaval Group: Radical Priests, Catholic Networks, and Maoist Politics in Northern Mexico,” The Americas 79, no. 2 (April 2022): 291–320.

2021

Mihow McKenny

Visiting lecturer, University of Florida, Gainesville FL

“The Art of Salvation: Sacramental Penance in Dante’s Commedia, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd series, vol. 13 (2016 [2019]): 71–139.

2020

Sejoo Kim

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Studies Education, Gyeongin National University of Education, Incheon, South Korea

“‘With All Your Heart’: American Missionaries and the State in Mission Fields,” Diplomatic History 45, no. 1 (January 2021): 162–185.

2019

John Nelson

Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University

“The Ecology of Travel on the Great Lakes Frontier: Native Knowledge, European Dependence, and the Environmental Specifics of Contact,” Michigan Historical Review 45, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 1–26.

2018

Jorge Puma Crespo

Assistant Professor of History, Hope College, Holland MI

“Small Groups Don’t Win Revolutions: Armed Struggle in the Memory of Maoist Militants of Política Popular,” Latin American Perspectives 44, no. 6 (November 2017): 140–155.

2015

Belen Vicens Saiz

Associate Professor, Salisbury University, Salisbury MD

“Swearing by God: Muslim Oath-Taking in Late Medieval and Early Modern Christian Iberia,” Medieval Encounters 20, no. 2 (2014): 117–51.

2013

Michael T. Westrate

Assistant Vice Provost, Graduate Education & Research, Villanova University, Villanova PA

“The Self against the State: Valery Abramkin and the Destruction of Dissident Identity,” Acta Slavica Iaponica, International and Interdisciplinary Journal of the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia 31 (January 2012): 105–21.

2011

Heath W. Carter

Associate Professor, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton NJ

“Scab Ministers, Striking Saints: Christianity and Class Conflict in 1894 Chicago,” American Nineteenth Century History 11, no. 3 (2010): 321–49.

2009

Michael Lee

Associate Professor, Templeton Honors College at Eastern University, St. Davids PA

“Higher Criticism and Higher Education at the University of Chicago: William Rainey Harper’s Vision of Religion in the Research University,” History of Education Quarterly 48, no. 4 (November 2008): 508–33.

Earlier winners:

2007

Sarah C. Davis-Secord

Associate Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM

2005

Matthew J. Grow

Director of Publications, Church History Department, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Brigham Young University, Provo UT

2003

David C. Mengel

Professor and Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Xavier University, Cincinnati OH

2001

David S. Bachrach

Professor, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH

1999

Angela Gugliotta (deceased)