Robert M. Kingdon Award
Deadline for applications:August 15, 2025
The Executive Committee of the Sixteenth Century Society is pleased to invite applications for the Robert M. Kingdon Award. Robert McCune Kingdon, 1927 – 2010, was the Hilldale Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, where he taught from 1965 to his retirement in 1998. Kingdon was a prolific scholar and the author of numerous books and scores of articles. He was one of the founders of the Sixteenth Century Society and the Sixteenth Century Journal.
Mentoring and supporting graduate students were among Bob Kingdon’s greatest passions. The Sixteenth Century Society has a reputation for being welcoming to graduate students in large part because of the many ways in which he modelled encouragement and offered support wherever and whenever he could. One did not need to be a Kingdon student to benefit from his kindness.
The Kingdon Prize honors Bob’s legacy by offering grants to help graduate students attend and present at the Society’s annual conference. Graduate students must have a paper accepted for presentation to apply.
To apply, please click here.
Applications are due by 15 August.
Graduate students are eligible to receive this award more than once and may apply in any year in which they will be presenting a paper at the Sixteenth Century Society’s annual conference. The award is based on need. In 2025, the award will take the form of up to two free room nights at the conference hotel (with a maximum value of $500). Up to 10 awards are made each year.
Questions about the prize should be directed to the Executive Director: director@sixteenthcentury.org.