Award

The ESSHC has established The Professor Jan Lucassen Award,  a prize for the best paper at the ESSHC by a PhD student.

Entry requirements

The papers should be written by a PhD student, in English, and has to be accepted in the ESSHC program.

The paper should be based on original research, innovative and should explicitly strive to explain historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. Papers with an international comparative approach are preferred. The maximum length of the paper should be no more than 8,000 words, excluding notes and bibliography.

How to apply

After you have registered for the conference, you can send an email to esshc@iisg.nl to apply for the award selection.

Your paper, accompanied by a short letter of recommendation by the PhD supervisor, needs to be submitted by 15 January 2025. You can send your paper to the conference secretariat for distribution to the jury members.

Jury

 

  • Jan Lucassen (chair), IISH
  • Andrea Caracausi, University of Padua
  • Anne Gerritsen, Warwick 
  • Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Utrecht University
  • Silke Neunsinger, Labour Movement Archives and Library, Sweden
  • Andrea Peto, CEU

Award

The ESSHC has a cash prize of € 1000 available for the winning paper. 

And an encouragement prize of € 250 for an honorary mention