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Mission
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| The awards honor Rita Lloyd Moroney, who began conducting historical research for the Postmaster General in 1962 and then served as Historian of the U.S. Postal Service from 1973 to 1991. These prizes are designed to encourage scholarship on the history of the American postal system and to raise awareness about the significance of the postal system in American life.
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Eligibility
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| Topics: The prizes are intended for scholarship on any topic on the history of the American postal system from the colonial era to the present—including the history of the imperial postal system that preceded the establishment of the American postal system in 1775. Though submissions must be historical in character, they can draw on the methods of disciplines other than history—e.g., geography, cultural studies, literature, communications, or economics. Comparative or international historical studies are eligible if the American postal system is central to the discussion.
Junior Prize: This prize is for scholarship written or published by undergraduates or graduate students. Submissions can take the form of a journal article, a book chapter, a conference paper, an M.A. thesis, or a Ph. D. dissertation. Submissions are eligible if they were originally written when the author was a student even if they were subsequently revised for publication. All submissions must include a signed statement from the author attesting to his or her status at the time when the initial work was completed. Individuals may win the junior prize just once but are eligible to receive the senior award the next year.
Senior Prize: This prize is for scholarship published by faculty members, independent scholars, public historians and other non-degree candidates. Submissions may take the form of a journal article, a book chapter, or a book. Senior award winners are not eligible to win again for three years.
Restrictions: Submissions must have been published, accepted (in the case of theses and dissertations), or presented (in the case of conference papers), in a three-year period prior to the application deadline. Submissions that do not receive a prize may be re-submitted the following year if they fall within these restrictions.
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Selection Criteria
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| In evaluating submissions, the prize committee will rely on the following criteria:
• What is its significance for our understanding of the history of the American postal system and its role in the American past?
• How original is its argument?
• How imaginative is its use of primary sources (e.g., archival materials, trade and professional journals, or visual imagery)?
• How effectively does it engage existing scholarship?
• How well is it written?
The committee reserves the right not to award any prize during an award year if no submissions are deemed suitable.
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Deadline and Submission Procedure
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| Submissions for the 2011 prize must be postmarked by December 1, 2010. No late entries will be accepted.
Authors must submit three copies of each submission along with a cover letter in which the author attests that the submission meets the eligibility requirements. Submissions will not be returned.
Send all materials to:
Professor Richard Kielbowicz
Department of Communication
Box 353740
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
Decisions will be announced in April 2011.
Please direct all questions to Professor Kielbowicz at the above address or to kielbowi@u.washington.edu
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Winners
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| 2010 Senior Award--Allison Marsh, "Greetings from the Factory Floor: Industrial Tourism and the Picture Postcard." Professor Marsh’s article was published in the October 2008 issue of Curator: The Museum Journal. She teaches in the Department of History, University of South Carolina, Columbia.
2010 Junior Award-—Sheila A. Brennan, "Stamping American Memory: Stamp Collecting in the U.S., 1880s-1930s." Ms. Brennan wrote the paper in 2009 while a graduate student at George Mason University, as her Ph.D. dissertation.
2009 Senior Award--Anuj Desai, “The Transformation of Statutes into Constitutional Law: How Early Post Office Policy Shaped Modern First Amendment Doctrine,” and “Wiretapping Before the Wires: The Post Office and the Birth of Communications Privacy.” Professor Desai’s articles were published in the March 2007 Hastings Law Journal and the November 2007 Stanford Law Review. He teaches at the University of Wisconsin Law School.
2009 Junior Award--Philip Glende, "Victor Berger's Dangerous Ideas: Censoring the Mail to Preserve National Security During World War I" (paper presented at the 2007 conference of the Economic and Business Historical Society and published in Essays in Economic and Business History, Volume 26, 2008). Mr. Glende wrote the paper while a Ph.D. student in the University of Wisconsin’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
2008 Senior Award--David A. Gerber, Authors of Their Lives: The Personal Correspondence of British Immigrants to North America in the Nineteenth Century (New York: New York University Press, 2006). Professor Gerber teaches in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
2008 Junior Award--Ryan Ellis, "Binding the Nation Together: The Politics of Postal Service." Mr. Ellis was a University of California San Diego graduate student when he wrote the paper.
2007 Senior Award--David M. Henkin, The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006). Professor Henkin teaches in the Department of History, University of California-Berkeley.
2007 Junior Award--Jesse Vogler, “‘Correct and Perfect’: Post Office Design Guidelines and the Standardization of the National Postal Landscape” (paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Vernacular Architecture Forum 2006). Mr. Vogler was a student in the Master of Architecture program at the University of California-Berkeley when he wrote the paper.
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