List of ISCH Prize winners

ISCH Prize Winners from 2023:

The winner of the 2025 ISCH Prize for the best conference presentation at the annual ISCH conference in Rovaniemi is Johanna Johannsdottir Damaris (University of Gothenburg, Sweden, link) with the presentation titled ‘Rulers of the Air: Understanding Weather in English Demonological Writings’.

The winner of the 2024 ISCH Prize for the best conference presentation at the annual ISCH conference in Potsdam is Maximilian Tarik Orliczek (University of Graz, Austria, link) with the presentation titled ‘Archaeokinetics: Research-Historical, Theoretical, and Methodological Considerations on Reconstructing Ancient Athletics’.

The winner of the 2023 ISCH Prize for the best conference presentation at the annual ISCH conference in Singapore is Srishti Guha (University of Newcastle, Australia) with the presentation titled ‘Gaze returned: Picturing female Aboriginal domestic servants in colonial photographs 1860-1950’.

Essay Prize Winners 2010-2022:

The winner of the 2022 essay prize is Marika Ahonen (University of Turku) with the article titled ‘Sirens, Narrative Ethics, and Christina Rosenvinge’s Mi Vida Bajo el Agua’. The article was published in Cultural History 12.1 (April 2023), pp. 120-138.

In 2021, the essay prize was not awarded.

The 2020 essay prize was awarded to Anna Brunton (University of Oxford) for the article ”Still may these Attic Glories Reign’: How eighteenth-century Whig taste was shaped by a political metaphor’. The article was published in Cultural History 11.1 (April 2022), pp. 94-109.

In 2019 Alexandra Szabó (Brandeis University) won the essay prize for the article ‘The Changing Memories of the Jewish Budapest: Pre- and Post-Holocaust Representations of a City’. The article was published in Cultural History 10.1 (April 2021), pp. 133–149.

In 2018, the essay prize went to Anil Paralkar (University of Heidelberg) for the article on ‘Trade, Exoticism and the English Appropriation of South Asian Pickles, c. 1600–1750’. The article was published in Cultural History 9.1 (April 2020), pp. 106–122.

The 2017 essay prize was awarded to Abril Liberatori (York University) for the article ‘Rock’n’Roll, Tango, & Italian Boogie-Woogie: Transnational Music and Immigrant Life in Post-World War II Buenos Aires’. The article was published in Cultural History 7.1 (April 2018), pp. 76–97.

The 2016 winning article for the essay prize was given to Mónica García-Fernández (University of Oviedo) for the article titled ‘Gender Metaphors in Representations of the Biological Body: An Analysis of Popular Medical Literature Published in Franco’s Spain’. The article was published in Cultural History 6.2 (October 2017), pp. 209–226.

In 2015 the essay prize was not awarded.

The 2014 essay prize has been awarded to Agnes Andeweg (University of Maastricht) for the article titled ‘Manifestations of the Flying Dutchman. On materialising ghosts and (not) remembering the colonial past’. Please go to the related post for more Information, and read the article in Cultural History 4.2 (2015), pp. 187-205.

The 2013 Essay prize was awarded to Soile Ylivuori (University of Helsinki), for the essay titled ‘A Polite Foucault? Eighteenth-Century Politeness as a Disciplinary System and a Practice of the Self’. The article was published in Cultural History 3.2 (2014), pp. 170-189.

In 2012 the essay prize was not awarded.

The 2011 prize was awarded to Erin Sullivan (the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, England) for the essay titled ‘The Watchful Spirit: Religious Anxieties toward Sleep in Seventeenth-Century England’. It was published in the first issue of Cultural History 1.1 (2012), pp. 14-35.

The 2010 prize was awared to Kirsi Kanerva (University of Turku) for the essay titled ‘Ogoefa (misfortune) as an Emotion in Thirteenth-Century Iceland’.