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The Renaissance Society of America is pleased to announce the recipients of the RSA awards and prizes for 2022–23. These scholars will be honored on two upcoming occasions: at the Awards Ceremony at the RSA San Juan 2023 conference on Thursday, March 9, at 6:30 p.m., and at the RSA’s online Awards Ceremony in late April 2023. All RSA members will receive an announcement of the date and time for the April Zoom event, and are invited to join.
The RSA’s Paul Oskar Kristeller Lifetime Achievement Award honors a lifetime of uncompromising devotion to the highest standard of scholarship accompanied by exceptional achievement in Renaissance studies. The RSA Board of Directors is delighted to announce that the recipient of the Paul Oskar Kristeller Award for 2023 is Jessie Ann Owens, Distinguished Professor of Music Emeritus at the University of California, Davis.
The honor of presenting the RSA’s Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture at the Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago, Illinois, in March 2024, has been conferred on Joan-Pau Rubiés Mirabet, ICREA Research Professor in Humanities at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
The RSA awards the Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize annually for the best book in Renaissance studies. The recipient of the 2023 Gordan Prize is literary scholar Urvashi Chakravarty, for Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). Honorable mention for the Gordan Prize has been awarded to art historian Aaron M. Hyman for Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (Getty Publications, 2021).
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Best Book Prize in Renaissance Venetian Studies is awarded by the RSA for a book on Venice in the period 1300–1700 published during the previous two years. For 2023 the prize is awarded to historian E. Natalie Rothman, for The Dragoman Renaissance: Diplomatic Interpreters and the Routes of Orientalism (Cornell University Press, 2021).
The RSA’s William Nelson Prize for the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly during 2022 has been awarded to literary scholar Noémie Ndiaye for her article “Black Roma: Afro-Romani Connections in Early Modern Drama (and Beyond)” (75.4, Winter 2022). Honorable mention for the Nelson Prize goes to historian Eric Dursteler for “Language and Gender in the Early Modern Mediterranean” (75.1, Spring 2022).
The RSA’s Digital Innovation Award recognizes excellence in digital projects that support the study of the Renaissance. This year two prizes have been awarded. One recognizes Emblematica Online (project team: Mara R. Wade, PI; Timothy W. Cole and Myung-Ja Han, Co-PIs; Thomas Kilton; and Thomas Stäcker), while the other goes to Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place (project team: codirectors Marjorie Lehman, Michelle Margolis, Adam Shear, and Joshua Teplitsky).
We hope you will join us either in person or online in April 2023 as we honor the recipients of these awards and prizes, as well as the recipients of RSA research fellowships, whose names will be announced later in the spring. Congratulations to all of our winners!
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