Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize Winners
The purpose of the Hay-Nicolay Dissertation Prize is to recognize and encourage young scholars to conduct research on Abraham Lincoln and his times. An annual prize of $5,000 is underwritten by the Lincoln Institute and the Lehrman Institute. The Abraham Lincoln Association and the Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc. select the recipients. The first year, both organizations selected recipients. The award alternates between each organization from year to year. A panel of five scholars representing each entity serves as the jury. Past winners are:
2010
Jonathan W. White, To Aid Their Rebel Friend: Politics and Treason in the Civil War North
2007
Russell McClintock, Shall it be Peace or an Accord? Northern Political Culture and the Crisis of Secession, 1860-1861, Clark University
2006
David Work, Lincoln's Political Generals, Texas A & M University
2005
Jennifer Weber, The Civil War and Northern Society, Princeton University
2004
Matthew Parks, Self-Evident No More: American Political Thought, 1820-1850, Boston University
2003
Graham Peck, The Social and Cultural Origins of Sectional Politics: Illinois from Statehood to Civil War, Northwestern University
2002
Brian Dirck, Mystic Chords: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, American Imagined Community, 1808-1860, University of Kansas
2001
Stewart Winger, Lincoln's Religious Rhetoric: American Romanticism and the Antislavery Impulse, University of Chicago
Deren Kellogg, The Lincoln Administration and the Southwestern Territories, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
