Society for
Utopian Studies
Awards
The Society for Utopian Studies presents awards for service, scholarship, and teaching.
Arthur O. Lewis Award
Each year the Society for Utopian Studies presents the Arthur O. Lewis Award for the best paper by a younger scholar (generally defined as untenured) given at the annual meeting of the Society. Arthur O. Lewis was one of the founders of the Society and served as its Chair on more than one occasion.
Eugenio Battisti Award
Each year the Society for Utopian Studies presents the Eugenio Battisti Award to the author of the best article in the previous year’s Utopian Studies. Eugenio Battisti (1924-1989), a much beloved scholar of utopian studies, was the founder of the Associazione internazionale per gli studi sulle utopie and the originator of a series of conferences in Italy. The Award is funded by donations to the Society for Utopian Studies by its members and has been generously supported by Professor Battisti’s wife, Giuseppa Saccaro Del Buffa, and son, Francesco Battisti.
Kenneth M. Roemer Innovative Course Design Award
Each year, the Society for Utopian Studies (SUS) presents the Kenneth M. Roemer Award for innovative course design in utopian studies. We invite submissions that center on an entire course within the field of utopian studies, or on a single unit on utopia within an undergraduate or graduate course.
Kenneth M. Roemer is a former president of the Society, winner of the 2008 Lyman Tower Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship, and teacher in the field of utopian studies for more than four decades.
Larry E. Hough Distinguished Service Award
The Larry E. Hough Distinguished Service Award is for substantial achievement in support of utopian studies, broadly defined. Service may include achievements in teaching, and support of this society or other organizations that study utopia. Service may also include the dimension of reaching out to the non-academic community, such as developing museums, setting up archives, working with the visual arts, design, architecture, or planning, or engaging with support organizations for communal societies. Service may be for diversified activities, or it may involve dedication to a single activity. In either case, the service must be sustained over an extensive period of time.
Lyman Tower Sargent Award for Distinguished Scholarship
The Society’s by-laws describe this award as aimed at recognizing “lifetime achievements, for diversified activity, and for accomplishments not only in the academic fields to which we are accustomed, but also for achievements in fields not usually considered for academic promotion and tenure,” with distinguished work in at least two of the following areas: “Literary/ Publication/Published Scholarship”, “Teaching”, and “Professional service/non-literary activity”.
Nicole LaRose Travel Grant
The Nicole LaRose Travel Grant provides funding to offset travel costs for graduate students presenting their work at the Society for Utopian Studies annual meeting. The society anticipates awarding a small number of LaRose grants each year, generally for $500 as well as free conference registration.