NASSH GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE

1985-2004

2007 Winner

Matthew P. Llewellyn, Penn State University
"A Nation Divided: Great Britain and the Pursuit of Olympic Excellence, 1912-1914"

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2006 Winner

Carly Adams, University of Western Ontario
"Negotiating a Place on the Team: The Story of Pauline Scriven, from Montreal to London, 1926-51"

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2005 Winner

David Mizener, York University
"The State, the Agrarian Press, and the Ontario Plowman's Association: Competitive Plowing and Agriculture in Twentieth-Century Ontario"

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2004 Winner

Jamie Schultz, University of Iowa
"'A Wager Concerning A Diplomatic Pig': Remembering and Forgetting in the Iowa-Minnesota Football Contests, 1934-1935 "

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2003 Winner

Kenneth Cohen , University of Delaware
"The Case for Space: Billards and American Sub-Cultures "

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2002 Winner

Jennifer Guiliano, Miami University of Ohio
"Sports Mascots as Illegitimate Identities: A Case Study of Miami University's Redskins"

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2001 Winner

Matthew Andrews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Equal Suffrage as Fas as Prizefighters Go: Gender, Pugilism, and Public Space in Turn-of-the-Century San Francisco"

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2000 Winner

Greg Gillespie, The University of Western Ontario
"Wickets in the West: Cricket, Culture and Constructed Images of Nineteenth Century Canada"
 
Annmarie Jutel, University of Otago
"Morality and Medicine: Sylvester Graham's Doctrine of Healthy Living Revisited "

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1999 Winner

Brad Austin, Ohio State University
"Playing for Keeps: The Politization of Intercollegiate Athletics During the Great Depression"

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1998 Winner

Susan L. Forbes, University of Western Ontario
"Defining Practices: Female Employees' Leisure at Eaton's"

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1997 Winner

Dan Mason, University of Alberta
"The International Hockey League and the Professionalism of Ice-Hockey, 1904-1907"

Selection Committee:

Debbie Cottrell
Kevin Wamsley
University of Calgary
Robin Lester
Columbia College


1996 Winner

Stacy Lorenz, University of Alberta
"'A Lively Interest on the Prairies': Western Canada, the Mass Media, and a 'World of Sport,' 1870-1939"

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Larry Gerlach
University of Utah
Tina Parratt
University of Iowa
Kevin Wamsley
University of Calgary


1995 Winner

R. Gregg Bennett, Auburn University
"Top of the 1st: Baseball from Reconstruction Through the 1890s at Four Southern Intercollegite Athletic Conference Colleges"

Selection Committee:

John Dewar
University of Saskatchewan
Larry Gerlach
University of Utah
Paula Welch
University of Florida


1994 Winner

Patrick Trimble, Penn State University
"Babe Ruth: The Media Construction of a 1920s Personality"

Selection Committee:

Mary McElroy
Kansas State University
Richard McGehee
Southeastern Louisiana State
Don Morrow
University of Western Ontario


1993 Winner

Robert Rinehart, University of Illinois, Urbana
"Fists Flew and Blood Flowed: Cultural Resistance, Hungarian Water Polo, and International Response, 1945-1956"

Selection Committee:

George Kirsch
Manhattan College
Vicky Paraschak
University of Windsor
John Schlippi
University of Dayton


1992 Winner

Dennis Gildea, Penn State University
"Counterpunch: The Morrissey-Heenan Fight of 1858 and Frank Queen's Attack on the 'Respectable Press'"

Selection Committee:

Nancy Bouchier
Kansas State University
Don Kyle
University of Texas, Arlington
Morris Mott
Brandon University


1991 Winner

Jack Davis, Brandeis University
"Baseball's Reluctant Challenge: Desegregating Major League Spring Training"

Selection Committee:

Joan Hult
University of Maryland
June Kennard
Towson State University
Charles Korr
U. of Missouri-St. Louis


1990 Winner

Barbara S. Pinto, University of Western Ontario
"Ain't Misbehaving: The Montreal Shamrock Lacrosse Club Fans, 1868-1884"

Selection Committee:

Steve Hardy
University of New Hampshire
Joan Paul
University of Tennessee
Randy Roberts
Purdue University


1989 Winner

Mark Dyreson, University of Arizona
"The Emergence of Consumer Culture and the Transformation of Physical Culture: American Sport in the 1920s"

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1988 Winner

Stephen Wenn, University of Western Ontario
"A Tale of Two Diplomats: George S. Messersmith and Charles H. Sherrill on Proposed American Participation in the 1936 Berlin Olympics"

Selection Committee:

William Baker
University of Maine, Orono
Allen Guttmann
Amherst College
John A. Lucas
Penn State University


1987 Winner

James Coates, University of Maryland
"The Racial Segregation of Baltimore Public Parks System, 1890-1917"

Selection Committee:

Melvin Adelman
Ohio State University
Don Morrow
University of Western Ontario
Roberta Park
U. of California, Berkeley


1986 Winner

Jan Todd, University of Texas at Austin
"Bernarr Macfadden: Reformer of Feminine Form"

Selection Committee:

Jack W. Berryman
University of Washington
Joan Chandler
U. of Texas at Dallas
Larry Gerlach
University of Utah


1985 Winner

Catriona Beaton Parratt, University of Windsor
"Sport and Hegemony: Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 1895-1929"

Selection Committee:

Richard Crepeau
University of Central Florida
Harry Jebsen, Jr.
Capital University
Nancy Struna
University of Maryland
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