Congratulations to Edward Green (PSU PhD 2025) who received the SHEAR Robyn Lily Davis Dissertation Prize for his project – Captains and community: Interdependency, Diplomacy, and the Development of ‘Quotidian Power’ in the Choctaw Nation, 1729-1860!! 🔥👏🎉

SHEAR’s Dissertation Prize, originally called the Manuscript Prize, has long served an important goal: it helps emerging scholars publish their work. Their current arrangement with the University of Virginia Press provides the winner with a book contract as well as an intensive, in-person manuscript workshop with leading scholars at an early stage to help the author produce the best possible book. Together with the colleagues at the Press and the Jefferson Scholars Foundation, they have also provided travel funds to help the winner attend the SHEAR conference to receive the award.