The WMQ New Voices Prize Winners
The WMQ New Voices Prize recognizes exceptional achievement by a Quarterly author who was a graduate student at the time of first submission. The annual prize is a selection of books from the OI’s list.
| Year of Award | Article | Issue | |
| 2024 | Leila K. Blackbird, “‘It Has Always Been Customary to Make Slaves of Savages’: The Problem of Indian Slavery in Spanish Louisiana Revisited, 1769-1803” | July 2023 | |
| 2022 | Elise Mitchell, “Morbid Crossings: Surviving Smallpox, Maritime Quarantine, and the Gendered Geography of the Early Eighteenth-Century Intra-Caribbean Slave Trade” | April | |
| 2022 | Honorable Mention to Emily Clark, “‘Their Negro Nanny Was With Child By A White Man’: Gossip, Sex, and Slavery in an Eighteenth-Century New England Town” | October | |
| 2019 | Bradley J. Dixon, “‘His one Netev ples’: The Chowans and the Politics of Native Petitions in the Colonial South” | January | |
| 2018 | Lauren Duval, “Mastering Charleston: Property and Patriarchy in British-Occupied Charleston, 1780–82” | October | |
| 2018 | Honorable Mention to Adam Lebovitz, “An Unknown Manuscript on the Terror, Attributed to Thomas Paine” | October | |
| 2017 | Katherine Smoak, “The Weight of Necessity: Counterfeit Coins in the British Atlantic World, circa 1760–1800” | July | |
| 2016 | Keith Pluymers, “Atlantic Iron: Wood Scarcity and the Political Ecology of Early English Expansion” | July | |
| 2015 | Nicholas Radburn, “Guinea Factors, Slave Sales and the Profits of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in Late Eighteenth-Century Jamaica: The Case of John Tailyour” | October | |
| 2014 | Christopher Steinke, “Here is my country”: Too Né’s Map of Lewis and Clark in the Great Plains | October | |
| 2013 | Cameron Strang, “Indian Storytelling, Scientific Knowledge, and Power in the Florida Borderland” | October | |
| 2012 | Glenda Goodman, “‘But they differ from us in sound’: Indian Psalmody and the Soundscape of Colonialism, 1651–75” | October | |
| 2011 | Randy M. Browne, “The ‘Bad Business’ of Obeah: Power, Authority, and the Politics of Slave Culture in the British Caribbean” | July | |
| 2009 | Nathan R. Perl-Rosenthal, “‘The ‘divine right of republics’: Hebraic Republicanism and the Debate over Kingless Government in Revolutionary America” | July | |
| 2008 | Brian Phillips Murphy, “‘A very convenient instrument’: The Manhattan Company, Aaron Burr, and the Election of 1800” | April | |
| 2007 | William A. Pettigrew, “Free to Enslave: Politics and the Escalation of Britain’s Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1688–1714” | January | |
| 2006 | Heidi Bohaker, “Nindoodemag: The Significance of Algonquian Kinship Networks in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600–1701” | January | |
| 2005 | Susan Kern, “The Material World of the Jeffersons at Shadwell” | April | |
| 2004 | Margot Minardi, “The Boston Inoculation Controversy of 1721–1722: An Incident in the History of Race” | January | |
| 2003 | Brett Rushforth, “‘A Little Flesh We Offer You’: The Origins of Indian Slavery in New France” | October | |
| 2002 | Robert E. Desrochers, Jr., “Slave For Sale Advertisements and Slavery in Massachusetts, 1704–1781” | July | |
| 2001 | Sara Stidstone Gronim, “Geography and Persuasion: Maps in British Colonial New York” | April | |
| 2000 | None | ||
| 1999 | Thomas A. Foster, “Deficient Husbands: Manhood, Sexual Incapacity, and Male Marital Sexuality in Seventeenth-Century New England” | October | |
| 1998 | Douglas L. Winiarski, “‘Pale Blewish Lights’ and a Dead Man’s Groan: Tales of the Supernatural from Eighteenth-Century Plymouth, Massachusetts” | October | |
| 1997 | Susan Scott Parrish, “The Female Opossum and the Nature of the New World” | July | |
| 1996 | Jenny Hale Pulsipher, “Massacre at Hurtleberry Hill: Christian Indians and English Authority in Metacom’s War” | July | |
| 1995 | Evan Haefeli (co–author with Kevin Sweeney), “Revisiting The Redeemed Captive: New Perspectives on the 1704 Attack on Deerfield” | January | |
| 1994 | None | ||
| 1993 | Richard Cullen Rath, “African Music in Seventeenth-Century Jamaica: Cultural Transit and Transmission” | October | |
| 1992 | None | ||
| 1991 | Thomas N. Ingersoll, “Free Blacks in a Slave Society: New Orleans, 1718–1812” | April | |
| 1990 | J. David Lehman, “The End of the Iroqouis Mystique: The Oneida Land Cession Treaties of the 1780s” | October | |
| 1989 | Stephen R. Grossbart, “Seeking the Divine Favor: Conversion and Church Admission in Eastern Connecticut, 1711–1832” | October | |
| 1988 | None | ||
| 1987 | Lisa Wilson Waciega, “A ‘Man of Business’: The Widow of Means in Southeastern Pennsylvania, 1750–1850” | January | |
| 1986 | Leigh Eric Schmidt, “‘A Second and Glorious Reformation’: The New Light Extremism of Andrew Croswell” | April | |