Dissertation Prize
Awarded yearly to the most successful use of DH in a dissertation
Nominees for this year's Prize must have defended their dissertation (FPO) between January 1, 2026 and December 31, 2026. The deadline for nominations is June 1, 2027. The prize carries an award of $2,000. To learn more and apply, click here.
The Center for Digital Humanities is pleased to announce that we are accepting nominations for the Digital Humanities Dissertation Prize, which recognizes exceptional doctoral work with a digital humanities component by recipients of Princeton PhDs. Applicants may self-nominate, as long as they secure a letter of recommendation from a Princeton faculty member.
Previous winners
| Year | Name | Department | Dissertation |
|---|---|---|---|
2025 |
Kate Clairmont |
English |
Magical Elsewheres: Setting and Place in the Nineteenth-Century British Fairy Tale |
2023 |
East Asian Studies |
Aural Texts and the Association of Sound and Meaning in Early China |
|
2022 |
Lucas McMahon |
History |
Information Transmission and the Byzantine State: Geography, Logistics, and Geopolitics, 600-1200 |
2021 |
Lizabel Mónica |
Spanish & Portuguese |
Literatura por otros medios: tecnología digital y campo literario en la Cuba contemporánea |
2021 |
English |
Doorstep Moments: Close Encounters with Minor Characters in the Victorian Novel |
|
2019 |
History |
Ocean Fever: Water, Trade, and the Shaping of the Terraqueous Pacific Northwest |
|
2018 |
Philip Gleissner |
Slavic |
Through Thick and Thin: The Social Life of Journals Under Late Socialism |
