Previous winners of the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize

Previous winners of the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize

Previous winners of the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize

2024

Prize winner:
Graham Moore, University of Reading, ‘Mutiny at the Edge of the World: Seafarers. Social Networks, and Shipboard Community during Hudson’s 1610 North West Passage Expedition’.

Honourable Mentions:
Helen Hawken, Birkbeck, University of London, for ‘White Ladyes of the Pole: Nineteenth-Century British and American Women Travellers in the Arctic’Samuel Cheney, University of Edinburgh, for ‘Exhausting the Ears: Aural Discomfort as Epistemological Disruption in British Travel Writing on China, c. 1860–c. 1911’.

2023

Prize-winner:
Harry Lewis,
University of Edinburgh, ‘St Malo to Callao: Maritime imperial conflict the Jacobites and the Viceroyalty of Peru 1701-1725’.

Honorable Mention:
Dan Brooks, Trinity College, Cambridge, for ‘Where is my Countryman’? James Fraser’s “Triennial Travels” and the British Diasporas in Europe, 1657-60′.

2022

Prize winner:
Hannah Kaemmer, Harvard University, “Greatness,” Ancient Ruin: Writing Ottoman Architecture in England, 1580-1680

Honourable Mention:
Jane McCrae Campbell, University of York, ‘The Self-Image of the Coloniser as Hero: Sir William Vaughan and The Golden Fleece (1626) of Newfoundland’

2021

Prize winner:
Nat Cutter, University of Melbourne, ‘Grateful Fresh Advices and Random Dark Relations; Maghrebi News and Experiences in British Expatriate Letters, 1660-1710’.

2020

Prize winner:
Dr Katie Bank (University of Sheffield) ‘Truth and Travel: The Principal Navigations and “Thule, the Period of Cosmographie”’.

Honourable mention:
Ellen Smith (University of Leicester) ‘Crafting Traditional Families in the British Empire: The Biography of Caroline Cuffley Giberne, 1803-1885

2019

Prize-winner:
James Taylor (City, University of London) ‘Gift-Giving, Reciprocity and the Negotiation of Power in European Encounters with Southeast Asia, c.1500-1824

Honourable mention:
Lior Blum (University of Southampton), ‘Foundations Made of Wood, a Roof Made of Gold: the Influence of the Camwood Trade on the History of English Activity in West Africa in the Seventeenth Century

2018

Joint prize-winners:
Darren Smith (University of Sydney), ‘Ex Typographia Savaraiana: Franco-Ottoman Relations and the First Oriental Printing Press in Paris
and
Witney Robles (Harvard University), ‘“A Different Species of Resistance”: When Corals became Animals and Animals had History

2017

Prize-winner:
Annemarie McLaren (Australian National University), ‘Neither “Middle Ground” nor “Native Ground”: Reading the life of Goggey, an Aboriginal Man on the Fringes of Early Colonial Sydney

Honourable mention:
Cameron B. Strang (University of Nevada),‘Coacoochee’s Borderlands. A Native American Explorer in Nineteenth-Century North America

2016

Prize-winner:
Nailya Shamgunova (University of Cambridge), ‘European Conceptualisations of Southeast Asian Sexual Diversity, c.1590-1640

2015

Prize-winner:
Owain Lawson (Columbia University), ‘Constructing a Green Museum: French Environmental Imaginaries of Syria and Lebanon’.

Honourable mentions:
Amy Bowles (Girton College, Cambridge), ‘Sea Changes: The Manuscript Circulation of Sir Henry Mainwaring’s A Brief Abstract, Exposition and Demonstration of all Parts and Things belonging to a Ship and Practique of Navigation
and
Katherine Parker (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Circling a Paper World: the Global Process of Producing Pacific Travel Accounts in the Long Eighteenth Century