JA Hawgood Travel Award
Thanks to the generosity of the Hawgood family, we have established the annual J A Hawgood Travel Award for American History Postgraduate Research. This annual award of £1200 provides travel assistance for a postgraduate researcher to carry out research into any field of American History.
It has been set up in memory of John Arkas Hawgood (1905-1971), Professor of American History at the University of Birmingham, and was constituted on the occasion of the centenary of his birth -- 20 November 2005. Professor J A Hawgood obtained his BA from the University College London, a D.Phil Heidelberg, a D.Litt from London, and was a Fellow of University College London.
He was Professor of Modern History (1946-1964), and later of American History (1964-1971) at the University of Birmingham.
He was the author of Modern Constitutions Since 1787 (1939; rpt. Littleton: Rothman, 1987), Citizen and Government (1947), First and Last Consul (Paolo Alto: Pacific Books, 1970), The Tragedy of German America (New York: Arno, 1970) and The American West. In the USA this book was entitled America's Western Frontiers (New York: Knopf, 1967) and won a prize from its publisher, Knopf).
He was also Editorial Director of Europa Publications
Applications
The deadline for applications in the 2024/25 academic year is 17:00 on Friday 31 January.
J A Hawgood Travel Award application form [DOCX, 17 KB]
The successful applicant will on their return from the USA need to complete a report on the progress of their research. Please direct any queries to Dr Rona Cran and Dr John Munro.
Previous winners
2024/25
Ian G. Jenkins, Full Circle: The emergence of US Counter Terrorism policy post-Watergate 1975-1988
Montgomery Simus, Water Cultures in Conflict at Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska: A Historical Examination of the ‘Wicked Problem’ of Whether Critical Battery Mineral Extraction, Fisheries, Indigenous Culture, and Nature Can Co-Exist in Our Clean Energy Future
2021/ 2022
Emily Vincent, Confronting Child Loss: Spiritualism, Ocular Science and Domestic Architecture in Women’s Late-Victorian Supernatural Fiction
2019/20
Benoit Leridon, The Idealism of South Carolina Gentlemen and the French Revolution, 1789-1801
2018/19
Lorna Chigwende Gangaidzo, A comparative analysis of performativity of race, gender and nationhood in the plays of Danai Gurira and debbie tucker green
2017/18
Rob Fitt, Teaching Vietnam: The cultural, sociopolitical, and economic construction of collective memory in the pedagogy of American history