The Society for U.S. Intellectual History is excited to announce the winner of the 2026 Dorothy Ross prize, Dr. Meagan Wierda for “Statistics ‘in Relation to Themselves’: African American Activists, the Census of 1840, and the Radical Potential of Quantification” (published in the Journal of the Early Republic).This award goes to an emerging scholar, defined as a current graduate student or a scholar within five years of receiving the PhD. The article must have appeared in an academic journal in the 2023 calendar year and may be submitted by the author, editor, or others. The winner receives $500. Many thanks Read more