On behalf of the Society for U. S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) and the editors of Modern Intellectual History, we are pleased to announce the recipient of the MIH/S-USIH Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize, for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the 2023 annual meeting in Denver: Harry Devoe, “Dirt, Debt, and Dependency: Southern Agricultural Periodicals and the Politics of Self-Sufficiency, 1866-1899.” We are grateful to the prize committee (Brandon R. Byrd. Amy Kohout, Benjamin E. Park) for their thoughtful service.
The committee writes: “We are pleased to announce Harry DeVoe as this year’s best graduate student paper prize from the 2023 USIH conference. The committee found his paper, which examines the paradoxes of “self reliance” found throughout nineteenth-century southern agricultural periodicals, to be provocative and persuasive. Devoe exhaustively dissects an understudied set of primary sources while also speaking to broader historiographical issues. It is well-researched, impressively ambitious, and compellingly argued—all hallmarks for the field of intellectual history.”
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