Previous winners of the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize Posted By: Richard Hakluyt Hakluyt Society Essay Prize and Grants 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’
