The American Society of Church History fosters and honors
outstanding scholarship through five prestigious prizes.
For information about the prize nomination process, see the main prize page.
Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize – $2,500
The Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize annually honors outstanding scholarship in the history of Christianity by a first-time author.
Deadline for Nominations: April 15.
Dr. Katie Ann-Marie Buygis (University of Notre Dame), The Care of Nuns: The Ministries of Benedictine Women in England during the Central Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 2019)
The Albert C. Outler Prize -- $2500
The Albert C. Outler Prize annually honors the best book, published in the prior calendar year, that illumines the diversity of global Christianity, issues of Christian unity and disunity (doctrinal, cultural, institutional), and/or the interactions between Christianity and other religions, in any period and area of the history of Christianity.
Deadline for Nominations: April 15.
Dr. Erin Kathleen Rowe (Johns Hopkins University), Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Philip Schaff Prize – $5,000
This prize annually honors the best book in the history of Christianity by a North American scholar published in the prior calendar year.
Deadline for Nominations: April 15.
Dr. David D. Hall (Harvard Divinity School), Puritans: A Transatlantic History (Princeton University Press, 2019)
Sidney E. Mead Prize – $500 and publication in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture
The Sidney E. Mead Prize is granted to an advanced graduate student or recent PhD for the best unpublished article stemming from dissertation research that contributes significantly to its field and to the history of Christianity more broadly. The article will be published in Church History.
Deadline for Nominations: July 12.
Dr. Christopher Bonura (UC Berkeley), "Eusebius of Caesarea and the Birth of Byzantine 'Imperial Eschatology': A Reevaluation of the Primary Sources."