Nelson R. Burr Prize
2012 Award Winner, Jacob M. BlosserEach year the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church awards the Nelson R. Burr Prize to recognize the article published in the Society's quarterly journal, Anglican and Episcopal History, that best exemplifies excellence and innovative scholarship in the field of Anglican and Episcopal history.
This prize honors the scholar whose two-volume "A Critical Bibliography of Religion in American" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961) and other bibliographic works constitute landmarks in the field of religious historiography.
Recent Award Recipients
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Publication |
Author |
Title |
| 2012 | Jacob M. Blosser | "John Tillotson’s Latitudinarian Legacy: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy, and the Pursuit of Happiness" |
| 2011 | Karen A. Keely | "’Let the Children Have Their Part’: The Young Christian Soldier and the Domestic Missionary Army" |
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2008 |
William C. Barnhart |
"Anglican Volunteerism, Ecclesiastical Politics, and the Bath Church Missionary Association Controversy, 1817-1818" |
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2007 |
Nicholas M. Beasley |
“Domestic Rituals: Marriage and Baptism in the British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780” |
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2006 |
Harvey Hill and |
“In Christ There is No Gay or Straight?: Homosexuality in the Episcopal Church.” |
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2005 |
Joan R. Gundersen |
"Building An Episcopal Church in a Lutheran Town: Women and the Founding of St. John's Episcopal Church, Mt. Prospect" |
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Peter Iver Kaufman |
"Putting Elizabethan Puritans in 'The New Paradigm'" |
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2004 |
Scott A. Wenig |
"John Jewel and the Reformation of the Diocese of Salisbury, 1560-1571" |
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2003 |
Craig D. Townsend |
"Episcopalians and Race in New York City's Anti-Abolitionist Riots of 1834:The Case of Peter Williams and Benjamin Onderdonk" |
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2002 |
Barbara Brandon |
"'The Best School for Blacks in the State': St. Mark's Academic and Industrial School, Birmingham, Alabama, 1892-1940" |
| 1999 | Ken R. MacMillan | "Zurich Reform and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559" |
| 1998 | John W. Houghton | "No Bishop, No Queen: Queens Regnant and the Ordination of Women" |