A Description of the Awards & Prizes of the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch: Award Descriptions

Award Recipients

The 2023 Grail Award for Lifetime Achivement Award for Exceptional Service to the International Arthurian Society

Recipient: Joan Tasker Grimbert

Presenter: Joseph M. Sullivan

June 2023

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The 2023 Dhira B. Mahoney Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Arthurian Studies

Recipient: Joseph M. Sullivan

Presenter: Kathy Krause

June 2023

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The 2022 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient: Kathryn M.M. Walton and Fiona Tolhurst

Presenter: Frank Brandsma

June 2023

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The 2022 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient: P. J. Zaborowski

Presenter: Molly Martin

June 2023

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The revised paper was published in Arthuriana 33.1.

The 2022 James Randall Leader Essay Prize in the ‘Fair Well-Known’ Category

Recipient: Joan Tasker Grimbert and Andrew Lynch

Presenter: Kevin S. Whetter

June 2023

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The 2022 Inaugural Dhira B. Mahoney Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Arthurian Studies

Recipient:  Ann Howey

Presented by: Nicole Clifton

June 2022

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The 2021 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Louis J. Boyle

Presented by: K.S. Whetter

June 2022

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The 2021 James Randall Leader Essay Prize in the new 'Fair Well-Known' Category

Recipient:  Jean Blacker

Presented by: K.S. Whetter

June 2022

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The 2021 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient:  Robyn Thum-O'Brien
Presented by: Molly Martin 
June 2022

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The revised paper was published in Arthuriana 32.1.

2020-2021 Award Celebration on Zoom, May 23, 2021

Click on the above image to watch the video recording of the 2020-2021 IAS-NAB Award Celebration. Apologies for having had to reduce the file size which always comes with a bit of loss of quality. 

The 2021 Grail Lifetime Achievement Award for Exceptional Service to the International Arthurian Society 

Recipient: Bonnie Wheeler 

Presented by: David F. Johnson
May 2021

The 2021 Norris J. Lacy Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement in Arthurian Studies 

Recipient: Bonnie Wheeleer

Presented by: David F. Johnson

May 2021

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The 2020 Norris J. Lacy Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement in Arthurian Studies 

Recipient: Kevin J. Harty

Presented by: David F. Johnson

May 2021

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The 2020 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Usha Vishnuvajjala

Presented by: K.S. Whetter

May 2021

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The 2020 James Randall Leader Essay Prize in the new 'Fair Well-Known' Category

Recipient:  D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.

Presented by: K.S. Whetter

May 2021

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The 2020 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient:  Jenny Fast
Presented by: Usha Vishnuvajjala
May 2021

The revised paper was published as "They ‘Laȝed . . . Þoȝ Þey Lost’: Laughter in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in Arthuriana 31.1.

The 2019 Norris J. Lacy Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement in Arthurian Studies 

Recipient: Nigel Bryant

Presented by: David F. Johnson

May 2019

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The 2019 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Frank Brandsma

Presented by: K.S. Whetter

May 2021

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The 2019 James Randall Leader Essay Prize in the new 'Fair Well-Known' Category

Recipient:  Donald L. Hoffman

Presented by: K.S. Whetter

May 2021

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The 2019 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient:  Christopher Jensen
Presented by: Usha Vishnuvajjala
May 2021

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The 2018 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Fiona Tolhurst & K.S. Whetter

Presented by: David F. Johnson
May 2019

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The 2018 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient:  Ellie Crookes
Presented by: Usha Vishnuvajjala
May 2019

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The 2017 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Kristina Hildebrand

Presented by: David F. Johnson
May 2019

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The 2017 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient:  Aubry Morris
Presented by: Usha Vishnuvajjala
May 2018
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The 2017 Norris J. Lacy Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement in Arthurian Studies 

Recipient: E. Donald Kennedy

Presented by: Kevin Whetter

July 2017

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The 2016 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Richard H. Godden
Presented by: Kevin Whetter
May 2017
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The 2016 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient:  Christopher Lee Pipkin
Presented by: Usha Vishnuvajjala
May 2017
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The 2016 Norris J. Lacy Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement in Arthurian Studies 

Recipient: William Kibler  

Presented by: Norris J. Lacy

May 2016

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The 2015 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient: Jennifer Bartlett
Presented by Usha Vishnuvajjala
May 2016
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The 2015 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Kathleen Coyne Kelly 

Presented by: Molly Martin
May 2016 
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The 2014 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Eve Salisbury

Presented by: Molly Martin
May 2015

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The 2014 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Recipient: David Eugene Clark

Presented by: Usha Vishnuvajjala, Brandy Brown and Dorsey Armstrong
May 2015

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The 2014 Grail Lifetime Achievement Award for Exceptional Service to the International Arthurian Society 

Recipient: Norris J. Lacy 

Presented by: Joan Gimbert
May 2014

The 2014 Norris J. Lacy Prize for Outstanding Editorial Achievement in Arthurian Studies 

Recipient: David F. Johnson  

Presented by: Norris J. Lacy in the absence of Kevin Whetter
May 2014

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The 2013 Fair Unknown Award for best paper on an Arthurian topic presented by a graduate student at the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo

Inaugural Award Recipient: Usha Vishnuvajjala 

Presented by: Brandy Brown and Dorsey Armstrong
May 2014

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The 2013 James Randall Leader Essay Prize

Recipient:  Robert Rouse

Presented by: Marco Nievergelt
May 2014

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