New Professional Award

Two $500 travel grants to encourage new professionals, practicing public history for no more than three years, to attend the 2025 Annual Meeting in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

2025 Winners

Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA) New Professional Travel Award Winner
Alyssa Moore, Intrepid Museum

NCPH New Professional Travel Award Winner
Noah G. Price, World Heritage USA

2025 Submission Guidelines

The National Council on Public History offers two $500 travel grants to encourage new professionals to attend the NCPH 2025 annual meeting. (New professionals are individuals, such as recent graduates of public history programs, who have been working within the public history profession for less than three years.) Each award recipient will be presented with a certificate and a cash award during the awards breakfast at the annual meeting. One of the New Professional Awards is underwritten each year by Historical Research Associates, Inc. Award winners receive complimentary registration for the awards breakfast.

Eligibility

Applicants must be members of NCPH, must have been practicing public historians for no more than three (3) years, and must have no institutional travel support to attend the annual meeting. We strongly encourage recipients attend the annual meeting.

Award Criteria

Applicants should submit this form, a current CV or resume, and a letter explaining how attendance at the annual meeting would be professionally beneficial. Applications will be judged on the strength of the CV and the persuasiveness of the letter.

Submission Process

Fill out the form (the form is closed for the 2025 award).

The form includes a file upload for your CV or resume and a file upload for supplemental material (such as your letter). Both documents should be uploaded as a Word document or PDF. Once submitted the form will be sent to each of the New Professional Award Committee members.

Nominations must be received no later than December 1, 2024. Late submissions will not be considered.

Questions?  [email protected]; (317) 274-2716

Past New Professional Award Winners

Since 2004, two awards are given, one of which is underwritten by Historical Research Associates, Inc.

2024

  • Augusta “Gus” Rudnick, City of Greeley Museums
  • Roman Cain, The Ohio State University
  • Honorable Mention – Karina Gomez, National Museum of American History

2023

  • Onyx Montes, Define American
  • Hannah Fradkin, The Claremont Colleges Library

2022

  • Laurel Overstreet, Luci Creative
  • Joel Zapata, Oregon State University

2021

  • Cheryl Dong, University of Northern Iowa
  • Jacqueline Hudson, Bowling Green State University

2020

  • GVGK Tang, Independent Scholar
  • Carys O’Neill, International Museum of Surgical Science

2019

  • Porsha Dossie, National Park Service, Park History Program
  • Sonya Laney, Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum and North Carolina State Historic Site

2018

  • Kimber J. Heinz, Bull City 150, Duke University
  • Shakti Castro, BOOM!Health

2017

  • Lily Anne Welty Tamai, Japanese American National Museum & University of California, Los Angeles
  • Alyssa Constad, General Federation of Women’s Clubs

2016

  • Erendina A. Delgadillo, LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
  • William F. Stoutamire, The Frank House, University of Nebraska at Kearney

2015

  • Rebecca Onion, Slate.com
  • Abby Curtin, Cleveland Restoration Society

2014

  • Susan C. Hall, Brea Museum & Heritage Center
  • Ricardo Santhiago, Universidade Federal Fluminense

2013

  • Claire Jerry, Curator, Paul Findley Archives, Illinois College
  • Caroline Muglia, Archivist, American Council of Learned Societies, Library of Congress

2012

  • Lauren Brincat, Museum of the City of New York
  • Julia Brock, University of California Santa Barabara

2011

From 2003-2011, New Professional Award winners wrote an article for the Summer/June issue of the NCPH newsletter,Public History News. Please see the links and pages below.

  • Erik Christiansen, Rhode Island College (pg 10)
  • Nicole Annette Moore, Culture and Heritage Museums in Rock Hill, North Carolina (pg 10)

2010

  • Alisha Cromwell, Living City Preservation (pg 14)
  • Laura McDowell, The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, the Newberry Library, and the Edgewater Historical Society (pg 14)

2009

  • Meghan Bishop, Tyron Palace Historic Sites and Garden (pg 11)
  • Santi Thompson, Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina (no article available)

2008

  • Peter Friesen, Godiah Spray Tobacco Plantation at Historic St. Mary’s City (pg 8)
  • John Dickinson, Georgia Historical Society and Costal Oral History Project (pg 8)

2007

  • Leigh Cutler, Historical Research Associates, Inc. (pg 19)
  • Lee Wittmann, Independent Historian (pg 14)

2006

  • Stephen Light, Columbia County Historical Society (pg 9)
  • Kate Navarra Thibodeau, Wistariahurst Museum (pg 9)

2005

  • Kris Woll, Gotham Center for New York City History (pg 6)
  • Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, NASA Johnson Space Center (pg 6)

2004

  • David Cline, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (pg 6)
  • Allison Marsh, National Museum of American History (pg 6)

2003

  • Brian Buff, Albany County Historical Association (pg 7)

2002

  • Edward Salo, Geo-Marine, Inc.

2001

  • James Holton, Polk County Historical Museum

2000

  • Michael Kelleher, Building Conservation Associates

1999

First year presented

  • Douglas Dodd, California Department of Transportation