Women's Caucus Intersectional Prize Winner for 2023:
Kelly Kaelin: Convert, Migrant, Missionary: Religion, Gender, and Race in the Early Modern Caribbean
Kaelin’s transnational, multilingual, and intersectional book project centers race and gender in the religious history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. While current studies of the Caribbean tend to emphasize English or French empires, a focus on the German Moravian church brings to light understudied dimensions of European and Afro-Caribbean women’s lives. Religion forms a productive axis for approaching the violent entanglement of race and gender and represents a key stage on which some women were able to exercise agency. Kaelin’s careful and creative mining of Black women’s fragmented presence at once identifies and counters historical erasures at play in the church archive. The ASECS Intersectional Prize will support research in Saxony for the development of a chapter on Afro-descendant women’s contradictory positions as both congregants and property in the Caribbean and Pennsylvania. Kaelin’s book project promises to contribute important insights to understandings of women’s diverse lived experiences, social positions, and cultural contributions during the global eighteenth century.
Kelly Kaelin: Convert, Migrant, Missionary: Religion, Gender, and Race in the Early Modern Caribbean
Kaelin’s transnational, multilingual, and intersectional book project centers race and gender in the religious history of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. While current studies of the Caribbean tend to emphasize English or French empires, a focus on the German Moravian church brings to light understudied dimensions of European and Afro-Caribbean women’s lives. Religion forms a productive axis for approaching the violent entanglement of race and gender and represents a key stage on which some women were able to exercise agency. Kaelin’s careful and creative mining of Black women’s fragmented presence at once identifies and counters historical erasures at play in the church archive. The ASECS Intersectional Prize will support research in Saxony for the development of a chapter on Afro-descendant women’s contradictory positions as both congregants and property in the Caribbean and Pennsylvania. Kaelin’s book project promises to contribute important insights to understandings of women’s diverse lived experiences, social positions, and cultural contributions during the global eighteenth century.
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Women's Caucus Intersectional Prize deadline: February 1, 2024
The Women’s Caucus Intersectional Prize is an annual award of $1000 made by the ASECS Women’s Caucus to encourage and recognize excellent intersectional scholarship on gender, race, and any additional intersectional dimensions with a focus on women in the eighteenth-century. The prize is open to all members of ASECS for projects-in-progress. Winning projects must advance an intersectional analysis of gender and race in the eighteenth century. A required element of this intersectional approach includes a focus on women, gender fluid and/or non-binary persons. Additional intersectional lenses such as indigeneity, empire, sexuality, or class are encouraged and welcomed. Projects typically fall within the period of 1660-1820 though projects spanning a longer time period will also be considered. Applications must include a 2-page CV with items relevant to the project submitted for prize consideration; a 3-4-page proposal outlining the project; a 2-page bibliography of pertinent works; and a budget explaining the candidate’s plan for using the funds for the project. The prize winner will be asked to submit a brief report on the progress of the project one year after receiving the prize, and whenever possible, will serve on the prize committee in the following year. Prize winners will be requested to acknowledge this grant’s support in the publication(s) that result(s) from the project. Submissions for the Women’s Caucus Intersectional Prize must be uploaded to this Google Form. |
Past Winners
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