Nelson R. Burr Prize

     Each year the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church awards the Nelson R. Burr Prize to the author of the most outstanding article published in 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.

Publication Year

Author

Title

2008

William C. Barnhart

"Anglican Volunteerism,

Ecclesiastical Politics,

and the Bath Church

Missionary Association

Controversy, 1817-1818"

2007

Nicholas M. Beasley

“Domestic Rituals: 

Marriage and Baptism

in the British Plantation

Colonies,  1650-1780,”

2006

Harvey Hill and Jennifer Watson

“In Christ There is No Gay

or Straight?:  Homosexuality

in the Episcopal Church.”

2005 co-award

Joan R. Gundersen

"Building An Episcopal Church

in a Lutheran Town:

Women and the Founding of

St. John's Episcopal Church,

Mt. Prospect"

2005 co-award

Peter Iver Kaufman

"Putting Elizabethan Puritans

in 'The New Paradigm'"

2004

Scott A. Wenig

"John Jewel and the Reformation

of the Diocese of Salisbury, 1560-1571

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"

2002

Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg

"'The Best School for Blacks in the State': 

St. Mark's Academic and

Industrial School, Birmingham, Alabama,

1892-1940"