ASTR sponsors or coordinates several awards, grants, fellowships, and prizes to support and recognize outstanding scholarship in theatre and performance studies.
Paige McGinley
Paige McGinley '08 PhD was named as the winner of the Erroll Hill Award for Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism, Duke University (2014). The Errol Hill Award is given in recognition of outstanding scholarship in African American theater, drama, and/or performance studies, as demonstrated in the form of a published book-length project (monograph or essay collection) or scholarly article.
McGinley also received Honorable Mention for the Barnard Hewitt Award for the same title. The Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History is awarded each year to the best book in "theatre history or cognate disciplines" published during the previous calendar year.
Pannill Camp
Pannill Camp '09 PhD received Honorable Mention for the Cambridge University Press Prize for Arts of the Brotherhood: French Masonic Ritual ad Sentimental Dramaturgy in Eighteenth-Century France. The Cambridge University Press Prize is a newly constituted award funded by Cambridge University Press and administered by the American Society for Theatre Research. The prize is given for an ASTR conference plenary paper written by a first-time plenary presenter.
Ioana Jucan
Ioana Jucan was awarded a Thomas Marshall Graduate Student Award. Each year ASTR awards three grants in honor of the late Thomas F. Marshall, a distinguished theatre scholar and founder of ASTR, who took particular interest in the encouragement and support of promising students in the field of theatre research. The purpose of the grants is to encourage students to become active members of the Society by helping them to meet the expenses of attending the ASTR annual meeting in November. ASTR conference registration fees will be waived for grant winners.