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Émilie Du Châtelet Award Winner for 2022: 
Kimary Fick: ‘Gedanken über die Musick’: Duchess Anna Amalia (1739–1807) as Enlightened Musikkennerin”

Dr. Kimary Fick’s project examines concepts of taste and culture in relation to ideologies of the Enlightenment and the female connoisseur. Bringing to light the personal writings of Duchess Anna Amalia of Weimar, a figure who is usually overshadowed by the male writers and thinkers of her circle, will serve to expand our understanding of the gendered aspects of culture during this complex period. Fick analyzes for the first time Anna Amalia’s personal papers, musical notebooks, and musical compositions, thereby investigating the female musical connoisseur as well as notions of ideal womanhood and female identity in this period.
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Émilie Du Châtelet Award
Deadline for submission: January 15, 2023
The Émilie Du Châtelet Award is an annual prize of $500 made by the Women's Caucus of ASECS to support research in progress by an independent or adjunct scholar on a feminist or Women's Studies subject. The award is open to the members of ASECS who have received the PhD and who do not currently hold a tenured, tenure-track, or job-secure position in a college or university, nor any permanent position that requires or supports the pursuit of research. Faculty emeritae are not eligible. The award is meant to fund works in progress, commensurate in scope with a scholarly article or book chapter, for which some research is already under way. 

To be eligible for the prize, projects must advance understanding of women's experiences and/or contributions to eighteenth-century culture or offer a feminist analysis of any aspect of eighteenth-century culture and/or society. Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a 1-3 page research proposal outlining the project and the candidate's plans for using the funds, and any evidence of progress on this project (i.e. an accepted conference paper, a related publication, an essay submitted for publication, etc.).The winner will be asked to submit a brief written report on the progress of the project one year after receiving the award, and wherever possible, will serve on the Award committee in the following year. The winner will be announced at the Women's Caucus Luncheon and during the annual meeting.

The prizewinner will be announced at the ASECS annual meeting. Submissions for the Émilie Du Châtelet Prize must be sent directly to the ASECS office and be received by January 15 for consideration. 

Send FIVE COPIES of eligible proposals to:
ASECS
(Emilie Du Chatelet Prize)
SUNY Buffalo State College
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asecsoffice@gmail.com
716-878-3405

​Past Winners
  • 2021: Sarabeth Grant​,  "Frightful Extravagancies: Passion, Society, and the Self in Eliza Haywood"
  • 2020: Cristina Martinez, "Jane Hogarth: The Untold Story of an 18th-Century Printseller and Defender of Copyright Law"
  • 2019: Freya Gowerly, "Collage before Modernism? Periodization, Gender and Eighteenth-Century Women's Collage"
  • 2018: Kristin O'Rourke, Toilettes
  • ​2017: Nicole Garret, "'Alter'd Courses of Action': Maternal Grief and Radical Change on the Eighteenth-Century English Stage"
  • ​2016: No prize given.
  • ​2015: Dr. Anna Ezekiel, Karoline von Günderrode
  • 2014: No prize given.
  • 2013: No prize given.
  • 2012:  A. L. Gust, “Portraits of Exile: ‘civilisation’ and the conceptualization of belonging, c. 1765-1830”
  • 2011: Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, “When Fashion Sets Sail: Maritime Modes in Pre-Revolutionary France”
  • 2010: No prize given.
  • 2009: Emily Bowles-Smith, "Mixed-gender Bodies and Mixed Genders: The Role of the 'Female Husband' in Eighteenth-Century Prose Narratives by Women"
  • 2008: No prize given.
  • 2007: Olga E. Glagoleva, "Women's Honor, or the Story with a Pig: Everyday Life of Noblewomen in the Eighteenth-Century Russian Provinces"
  • 2006: No prize given.
  • 2005: No prize given.
  • 2004: Susan B. Iwanisziw, "Interracial Concubinage in the Long Eighteenth Century: Two Exemplary Women"
  • 2003: Kathleen M. Oliver, "'The Intended Heroine of this Work': The Adolescent Female in Georgian Society, 1714-1830"
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  • About
    • Board
    • Past Caucus Chairs
    • Past Caucus Panels
    • Women's Caucus History
  • Announcements
    • ASECS Town Hall
    • ASECS Policies on Sexual Harassment and Professional Conduct
  • Prizes and Awards
    • Émilie Du Châtelet Award
    • Women's Caucus Editing and Translation Award
    • Catherine Macaulay Graduate Student Prize
    • Women's Caucus Intersectional Award
  • Publications
    • CFPs
  • Members
    • Past Members of the Month
  • Mentoring
    • Invisible Service
  • Donors
  • Contact Us