2025
Adam Behan, “Rock Music and Masculinity in Ireland, 1975–85”
Honorable Mention: Ellen Scheible, “Bildung and the Non-reproductive Female Body in Contemporary Irish Women’s Writing”
2024
Tom Hulmes, “Queering family history and the lives of Irish men before gay liberation”
Honorable Mention: Annabel Barry, “How to Do Things While Saying Nothing: Illocutionary Dissimulation in Milkman“
2023
Bridget English, ” ‘The sick body has its own narrative impulse’: contemporary Irish illness narratives and institutions of care”
2022
Tiffany Thompson, “A ‘Proletarian Protest’ in Parliament: Bernadette Devlin and the Memory of Bloody Sunday”
2021
Shinjini Chattopadhyay, “Towards a New Cosmopolitanism: Stranger Fetishism in the Works of Twenty-first Century Migrant Writers of Color in Ireland”
Honorable Mention: Samantha Haddad, “‘Dark Beauties and Spicy Roses’: Race, Gender, and Cultural Production in the Rose of Tralee Pageant”
2020
Kelsey Rall, “Borderland Body: Liminal Spinsterhood and Anglo-Irish Anxiety in The Real Charlotte“