Winners

2025 Palmer Award for Best New Essay

Award: 
Barbara Palmer Award
Award Year: 
2025

Brazil, Sarah. “Playing the Victim: Mockery, compassion, and racialization in premodern English Buffeting plays.” postmedieval 15.1 (2024): 49–86. DOI: 10.1057/s41280-023-00301-2.

2025 Stevens Award for Best New Essay

Award: 
Martin Stevens Award
Award Year: 
2025

Rivkin, Nat. “‘Lely-wyte, clene with pure virginyté’: The N-Town 'Nativity', the Virgin Mary, and Trans Misogyny.” Early Theatre 27.2 (2024). DOI: 10.12745/et.27.2.5846.

2025 Sponsler Award for Best First Book

Award: 
Claire Sponsler Award
Award Year: 
2025

Kuhn, John. Making Pagans: Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024.