Winners of the ANZAMEMS Publication Prizes for 2025 and 2026

2025 Anne M. Scott Parergon Prize

The Anne M. Scott Parergon Prize is awarded to an emerging scholar for the best article-length scholarly work accepted to be published in Parergon within the previous two years.

The 2025 Parergon Prize was awarded to Dr Nat Cutter (The University of Melbourne), for ‘Morocco Leather in Early Modern Britain: Towards a Transcultural History of Fine Leather Bookbindings’. Parergon 41.2 (2024): 103–32. https://doi.org/10.1353/pgn.2024.a946927.

 

2025 Chris Jones Book Prize

The Chris Jones Book Prize is awarded to the best first book published in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval, early modern, or medievalism studies published within a set date range (1 January 2024–31 July 2025).

The winner of the 2025 Chris Jones Book Prize is Dr Jason Crow (McGill University/Monash University), for A New Material Interpretation of Twelfth-Century Architecture: Restoring the Abbey of Saint-Denis, Knowledge Communities Series Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
https://www.routledge.com/A-New-Material-Interpretation-of-Twelfth-Century-Architecture-Reconstructing-the-Abbey-of-Saint-Denis/Crow/p/book/9781041175056

 

2026 Constant Mews Early Career Publication Prize

The Constant Mews Early Career Publication Prize is awarded to an Early Career Researcher (ECR) for the best article-length scholarly work in Constant’s broad areas of scholarly interest: the medieval history of religions, intellectual history, and textual editing and translation, within a set date range (1 September 2023–1 May 2025).

The winner of the 2025 Constant Mews Early Career Publication Prize is Dr Jonathan Chung-Yan Lo (Monash University), for ‘Beyond Text to God: Bonaventure's transformation of exegetical method from his Breviloquium to Itinerarium mentis in Deum (1257–1259).’ Scottish Journal of Theology 77.3 (2024): 232–44. https://doi:10.1017/S0036930624000267.

 

2025 Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize

The Patricia Crawford Postgraduate Publication Prize is awarded to a postgraduate student for the best article-length scholarly work in any discipline or topic falling within the scope of medieval and early modern studies, published within the set date range (1 September 2023–1 May 2025).

The winner of the 2025 Patricia Crawford Publication Prize is Dr Anna-Rose Shack (University of Freiburg), for ‘“I walked out”: Perambulatory Poetics, Authorial Independence, and Isabella Whitney’s Poetic Voice in A Sweet Nosgay”.’ Women’s Writing 31.1 (2024): 83–100. https://doi.org/10.1080/09699082.2024.2284053.

 

2025 Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize

The Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize is awarded to an Early Career Researcher (ECR) for the best article-length scholarly work in any discipline/topic falling within the scope of medieval and early modern studies, published within the set date range (1 September 2023–1 May 2025).

The winner of the 2025 Philippa Maddern ECR Publication Prize is Dr Susannah Lyon-Whaley (University of York), for ‘Contesting Catholic Motherhood: Mary Beatrice of Modena, the ‘Glorious Revolution’, and Queenly Agency.’ In Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage, edited by Eilish Gregory and Michael Questier (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), pp 121–48. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38813-2_6.