Graduate Student Paper Award Winners

Previous recipients of the
Society of Historians of Scandinavia's
Award for best graduate student paper in history
presented at the annual SASS meeting are

Year Recipient Institution Title

2003 Dean Bennett University of Washington "Our Goths: Sweden's Myth of National
Origin and the Political Rhetoric of
Legitimacy, Legality, and
Liberty, 1598-1632."

2004 Glenn Kranking Tartu University,
Estonia "Where is My Homeland? Repatriation
of Ethnic Swedes in the Early
Twentieth Century"

2005 No Award
No Paper was selected for the 2005 Graduate
Student Paper Award

2006 1st Prize:
J. Laurence Hare, Jr. University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill "When the Germans Ran Wild in Denmark:
Archeology and Identity During the
German Danish Wars, 1848-1865."

2nd Prize:
Glenn Kranking The Ohio State University "The Swedish Identity Crisis and Colonial Sweden:
19th Century Neocolonial Expansion and the
Swedish Diaspora in the Russian Empire."

2007 Daniel Riches University of Chicago "Bengt Skytte's Plan for an International
Scholarly Community at Tangermünde"

2008 1st Prize:
Jeff Hartman University of Minnesota "Deforestation and Driftwood:
Icelandic Timber Imports in Light of
the Archaeology of Dwelling Construction"

2nd Prize:
Glenn Kranking The Ohio State University “Jumping Through Windows and the Antichrist:
The Absurd Foundations of the
Estonian-Swedish Cultural Awakening”

2009 1st Prize:
Karl Aspelund, Boston University "Defining National Culture by Stealth and Design:
ow a 19th Century Artist and Secret Society Defined
20th Century Icelandic Culture"

2nd Prize:
Lori Talcott University of St. Thomas "The Norwegian Bolesølje: A Microcosm of
Medieval Aesthetics and Belief"

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Year	Recipient	Institution	Title
2003	Dean Bennett	University of Washington	"Our Goths: Sweden's Myth of National Origin and the Political Rhetoric of Legitimacy, Legality, and Liberty, 1598-1632."
2004	Glenn Kranking	Tartu University, Estonia	"Where is My Homeland? Repatriation of Ethnic Swedes in the Early Twentieth Century"
2005	No Award		No Paper was selected for the 2005 Graduate Student Paper Award
2006	1st Prize: J. Laurence Hare, Jr.	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	"When the Germans Ran Wild in Denmark: Archeology and Identity During the German Danish Wars, 1848-1865."
	2nd Prize: Glenn Kranking	The Ohio State University	"The Swedish Identity Crisis and Colonial Sweden: 19th Century Neocolonial Expansion and the Swedish Diaspora in the Russian Empire."
2007	Daniel Riches	University of Chicago	"Bengt Skytte's Plan for an International Scholarly Community at Tangermünde"
2008	1st Prize: Jeff Hartman	University of Minnesota	"Deforestation and Driftwood: Icelandic Timber Imports in Light of the Archaeology of Dwelling Construction"
	2nd Prize: Glenn Kranking	The Ohio State University	“Jumping Through Windows and the Antichrist: The Absurd Foundations of the Estonian-Swedish Cultural Awakening”
2009	1st Prize: Karl Aspelund,	Boston University	"Defining National Culture by Stealth and Design: ow a 19th Century Artist and Secret Society Defined 20th Century Icelandic Culture"
	2nd Prize: Lori Talcott	University of St. Thomas	"The Norwegian Bolesølje: A Microcosm of Medieval Aesthetics and Belief"