The Dr. Joseph M. Schwartz Memorial Prize Essay

To honor the late Dr. Joseph M. Schwartz, former editor of the journal, Renascence will award a prize of $1,000 for the essay judged to be the best published in Renascence during the previous two years.

Recent Award Winners

• 2020 Winner: Brian Barbour:
  'His Trees Stood Rising Above Him': Philosophical Thomism in Flannery O’Connor

• 2018 Winner: Kevin K. West:
  Tokens of Sin, Badges of Honor: Julian of Norwich and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• 2016 Winner: Glenn Hughes:
  Love, Terror, and Transcendence in Emily Dickenson's Poetry

• 2010: John Baxter:
  

  Perilous Stuff: Poems of Religious Meditation

• 2008: Thomas J. Moretti:
  

  Misthinking the King: The Theatrics of Christian Rule in Henry VI, Part 3