Many thanks to all of you who entered the 2007 Graduate Essay Prize.
The final results are listed below (and are also available as a PDF). Winners and runners-up will be published in History Compass, with winners also receiving $200 / £100 of free Blackwell books.
Winners
Falsified by History: Menzies, Asia and Post-Imperial Australia
Mads Clausen, University of Copenhagen (Australasia & Pacific Prize)
How far is the ‘rhetoric of inclusion; reality of exclusion’ argument applicable to the relationship of Afro-Latin Americans to the nation-state?
Helen Creighton, University College London (Caribbean & Latin America Prize)
To what extent have historians exploited monster literature for their own ends?
Anna Dunthorne, Swansea University (Europe Prize)
Scholars and the Sea: a historiography of the Indian Ocean
Sebastian Prange, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (World Prize)
The Asia Prize will be confirmed later in February 2008.
No Africa, Britain & Ireland, Middle & Near East or North America Prizes were awarded this year.
Runners-up
The Jews in the Medieval Polish Economy: Some Thoughts on the Historiography of the Twentieth Century
Jolanta Komornicka, Boston University (Europe)
