Article XII, Section B of the National Huguenot Society Bylaws:

Committee on Awards

  1. This committee shall publicize and conduct the National Society’s annual competition to recognize the best work of scholarship dealing with any aspect of Huguenot history in a paper, article, dissertation, movie, video production, or book produced during the preceding calendar year of the Annual Congress during which the award is to be made.
  2. This committee shall make recommendations to the Board of General Officers and the Annual Congress with respect to the awards of medals or other types of recognition to be presented.

An important part of the National Huguenot Society’s mission is to recognize the best work of scholarship about any aspect of Huguenot history in a paper, article, thesis, dissertation, movie, video production, or book, first produced during the calendar year (January 1st through December 31st), as demonstrated by its published copyright date.

The scholarly work must be translated into English and a copy of the publication submitted to the Chairman / Co-chairmen of the Committee on Awards, at the address below. Alternatively, the committee chairman may request authorization from the President General to purchase a scholarly work the Committee wishes to consider, should the publisher or author not respond favorably to a request for a review copy of the application.

Submissions for the award may be made during the calendar year whose copyright year is under consideration. The deadline is February 1st of the year following the copyright year of the publication. Entries are considered by our Committee on Awards which makes recommendations to the NHS Board that votes on the recommendation at its April meeting. The committee chairman then notifies the winner-the publishing house or the author, depending upon whose information is readily available.

The NHS President General must then request the Treasurer General to issue a check in the amount of $1,000.00 to the author of the winning publication.

The entries which are considered area are donated to the Huguenot Collection of the National Huguenot Society at the Daughters of the American Revolution Library in Washington, D.C., if appropriate.   If sent to the committee gratis the entry will, however, be returned upon request of the submitter.

Entries are to be sent to:

Mary Margaret Buck

Chairman, Scholarly Works Committee