Past Winners:

In memory of Charlie Crouch (1954-2010) and Katherine Aaslestad (1961-2021), longtime friends and board members, the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era awards a prize to the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting.

Winners of the Charlie Crouch/Katherine Aaslestad Prize receive $500 from the Consortium and their registration fees for the following year’s conference are waived.

2020

Killian Harrer (University of Wisconsin – Madison) "Elusive Grace: Miracles, Pilgrimage, and State Repression in Revolutionary France."

Honorable mention: Kelly Brignac (Harvard University) "Freedom Debt: The Forced Indenture of Africans after the 1817 Abolition of Slaving in Sainte Marie, Madagascar." 

2019

Erik de Lange (Utrecht University) “No Security, Except in Destruction”: Transnational Threats, International Anxieties and the French Invasion of Algiers”

Honorable mentions:  Richard Siegler (Florida State University) “The French Revolution and the Leasing of Public Power to the Private Sector” and Anna Vincenzi (University of Notre Dame) “Messenger of Revolution? An Alternative Look on Filippo Mazzei and the Role of Cultural Brokers in the Age of Revolutions”

2018

Ross Nedervelt (Florida International University) "Geopolitical Security, Spheres of Influence, and the Border-Sea in the American Revolution."

Honorable mentions:  Glauco Schettini (Fordham University) "Geographies of Revolution: Italy, Europe, and the Mediterranean in the Age of the French Revolution," Erik de Lange (Utrecht Univesity) “The Restoration of Legitimate Violence. Piracy at the Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, 1818-1819,” and Philip Baltuskonis, (University of Mississippi) " 'These indisputable Precepts of the Rights of Man': Revolutionary Wives and Their Petitions in Late Colonial New Granada."

2017

Andrew Kettler (University of South Carolina) “‘The Sweet Smell of Vengeance’:  Carnivalesque Olfactory Resistance Within African Diasporic Medical Traditions of the Atlantic Era.”

Honorable mention: Katlyn Carter (Princeton University) “The Politics of Publicity: Constructing Representative Governments in 1789.”