Endnotes

2012 VanArsdel Essay Prize

VPR is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 VanArsdel Prize: Jude Piesse, a doctoral student at the University of Exeter. Her essay, "Dreaming across Oceans: Emigration and Nation in the Mid-Victorian Christmas Issue," will appear in the Spring 2013 issue. She is also the recipient of a $300 cash award. We offer her our warmest congratulations!

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of RSVP whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The deadline for next year's award competition is May 1, 2013.

Curran Fellowship for Research on the Victorian Press

Curran Fellowship awards are made possible through the generosity of pioneering scholar Eileen Curran. These annual grants are intended to aid scholars studying nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources.

The Curran Fellowship is awarded annually in the form of two grants of $2,500 each. The deadline for the fifth annual Curran Fellowship competition is October 15, 2012. The projected research may involve study of the periodical press in any of its manifold forms and may range from within Britain itself to the many countries within and outside of the empire where British magazines and newspapers were bought, sold, and read during the long nineteenth century (ca. 1780-1914).

Applications for the Curran Fellowship for research to be undertaken in 2013 must be submitted in electronic form and sent to curranfellowship@rs4vp.org. Applicants should send a CV, the names and contact information of two scholars who are familiar with the applicant and his or her research goals, and a description of the project to which these funds would be applied. Any queries about the application may be sent to the same address.

Applicants will be notified by January 15, 2013. Successful applicants will be required to submit a brief report describing the results of their research to RSVP at the conclusion of the funded portion of their project and are asked to acknowledge the fellowship in any published work based on that research.

The full call for applications may be found on the RSVP website at http://www.rs4vp.org/prizes.html.

A set of additional guidelines for applicants may be found at http://www.rs4vp.org/curran_fellowship_guidelines.pdf.

Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize

RSVP is pleased to announce the annual Robert and Vineta Colby Prize for the scholarly book that most advances understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper and/or periodical press. All books exploring periodicals of the period are eligible (including single-author monographs, edited collections, and editions) so long as they have an official publication date of 2012. The winner will receive a monetary award of up to $2,000 and will be invited to speak at the RSVP conference in Manchester (July 2013). The prize is made possible by a generous gift by Vineta Colby in honor of Robert Colby, a longtime, devoted member of RSVP and a major scholar in the field of Victorian periodicals.

To nominate a book, please email the chair of the prize committee, Linda Hughes (l.hughes@tcu.edu), by December 1, 2012. You or your press will be asked to supply the committee with five copies of the book by mid-December, 2012. Self-nominations are welcome.

Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media

RSVP is pleased to announce the fourth annual Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship, made possible by the generosity of Gale/Cengage Learning. This prestigious award supports research that makes substantial use of full-text digitized collections of nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers. A prize of $1,500 will be awarded along with with one year's subscription to selected digital collections from Gale, including 19th Century UK Periodicals and 19th Century British Library Newspapers.

The purpose of the Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship is two-fold: (1) to support historical and literary research that deepens our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press in all its rich variety...