Eligible entries are written by students enrolled in archival studies classes at either the master’s or doctoral level. A faculty member or instructor associated with the archival studies program must submit the entry to verify that the student paper was written within the context of an archival studies program from June 1 of the previous year to May 31 of the current year. A faculty member or instructor in an archival studies program may submit more than one entry per award cycle.
Entries should be unpublished manuscripts of 5,000–8,000 words, must include an abstract, and should conform to the stylistic guidelines described in the editorial policy of the American Archivist. Submit only the title with the paper. The name of the author, the program, or the faculty member or instructor must not appear on the manuscript.
1988: Greg Kinney (University of Michigan), "The
Records of Land District Offices of the U.S. General Land Office for
the States of the Northwest Territory"
1989: Maureen A. Jung (California State University, Sacramento), "Documenting
19th-Century Quartz Mining in Northern California"
1990: Luke J. Gilliland-Swetland (University of Michigan), "The
Provenance of a Profession: The Permanence of the Public Archives and
Historical Manuscripts Traditions in American Archival History"
1991: Not awarded
1992: Roy Schaeffer (University of British Columbia), "Transcendent
Concepts: Power, Appraisal, and the Archivist as >Social Context'"
1993: Not awarded
1994: Anke Voss-Hubbard (State University of New York
at Albany), "No Documents--No History: Mary Ritter Beard and the
Early History of Women's Archives"
1995: Judith Panitch (State University of New York at
Albany), "Liberty, Equality, Posterity?: Some Archival Lessons
from the Case of the French Revolution"
1996: Shauna McRanor (University of British Columbia), "A
Critical Analysis of Intrinsic Value"
1997: Karen Collins (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill), "Providing Subject Access to Images: A Study of User Queries"
1998: Not awarded
1999: Kathleen Feeney (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill), "Retrieval of Archival Finding Aids Using World
Wide Web Search Engines"
2000: Kristin
E. Martin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Analysis
of Remote Reference Correspondence at a Large Academic Manuscripts
Collection"
2001: James
M. Roth (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Serving
Up EAD: An Exploratory Study on the Deployment and Utilization of
Encoded Archival Description Finding Aids"
2002: Reto
Tschan (University of British Columbia), "A Comparison of
Jenkinson and Schellenberg on Appraisal"
2003: Glenn
Dingwall (University of British Columbia), "Trusting Archivists:
The Role of Archival Ethics Codes in Establishing Public Faith"
2004: Catherine
O'Sullivan (New York University), "Diaries, Online Diaries,
and the Future Loss to Archives; or Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers
Who Blog Them"
2005: Ian
Craig Breaden (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill), “Sound Practices: Online Audio Exhibits and the
Culture Heritage Archive”
2006: Ben Blake (University of Pittsburgh), “A Call for a New American Labor Archives: History, Theory, Methodology and Practice”
2007: Elizabeth Snowden (Middle Tennessee University), “Our Archives, Our Selves: Documentation Strategy and the Re-Appraisal of Professional
Identity”
