New Professional Award

Two $500 travel grants to encourage new professionals, practicing public history for no more than three years, to attend the 2027 Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. NCPH acknowledges the generous support of Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA) for underwriting one of these awards.

2025 Winners

New Professional Travel Award Winner, funded by Historical Research Associates, Inc. (HRA)

Sara Shaffer-Henry, Illinois State Museum – Dickson Mounds

New Professional Travel Award Winner, funded by NCPH

Caroline Hugh, Georgia Humanities

Submissions will reopen for 2027 Awards in summer 2026

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Past New Professional Award Winners

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

2025

Alyssa Moore, Intrepid Museum
Noah G. Price, World Heritage USA

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)