Awards News

The 2019 Annual Hendricks Award was awarded to Joyce D. Goodfriend for her book Who Should Rule at Home? Confronting the Elite in British New York City.

The 2019 Clague and Carol Van Slyke Article Prize was awarded to Jaap Jacobs for his article "'Act with the Cunning of a Fox': The Political Dimensions of the Struggle for Hegemony over New Netherland, 1647–1653."

The recipient of the 2019 Alice P. Kenney Memorial Award was archaeolgists Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall.

The Awards of the New Netherland Institute

Hendricks Award

Endowed by Dr. Andrew Hendricks, this award of $5,000 is given annually for the best book or book-length manuscript relating to the Dutch colonial experience in North America before the American Revolution. The deadline for submissions is February 1.

Clague and Carol Van Slyke Article Prize

The New Netherland Institute offers an annual $1,000 prize for the best published article relating to the Dutch colonial experience in the Atlantic world, with a special sensitivity to New Netherland or its legacy. The Clague and Carol Van Slyke Article Prize is named in their memory, and given in honor of their New Netherland ancestry. The deadline for submissions is April 1.

Alice P. Kenney Memorial Award

Named after an early scholar of the Dutch-American experience, this $5,000 award is given annually for significant contributions to colonial Dutch studies and understanding of the Dutch colonial experience. The deadline for nominations is March 1.

The Howard G. Hageman Citation

The Trustees of NNI periodically give this award for particularly noteworthy support and encouragement to the New Netherland Project and now to the New Netherland Research Center.