The Peter Guilday Prize
The Guilday Prize at a Glance
The Guilday Prize honors a manuscript from an author who has not previously been published. The winning manuscript is published in the Catholic Historical Review.
Annually
$250 + publication in the Catholic Historical Review
Early 2023
Nelson Minnich, [email protected]
Editor, Catholic Historical Review
Send your manuscript to the editors of the Catholic Historical Review. Please consult the CHR’s style sheet and submission instructions.
Submission deadline: September 1, 2022

About the Guilday Prize
The Peter Guilday Prize is awarded for a manuscript, accepted by the editor of the Catholic Historical Review, that is the author’s first scholarly publication. Entries must be submitted as articles; those received in the editorial office by September 1 of any year will be considered for that year’s prize, the amount of which is $250.
The winning article will be published in the following year. Any author who is a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada is eligible.

Submission Rules
The general rules for submission are:
- The manuscript must be the author’s first scholarly publication.
- The author must be a permanent resident of the United States or Canada.
- The manuscript must meet all publication requirements of the Catholic Historical Review.
Submission deadline: September 1, 2022
Past Winners
Year | Awardee | Work | Appears in |
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2021 | Richard T. Yoder | “From the Dove to the Eagle: Jansenist Visual Culture Between Piety and Polemic” | Catholic Historical Review, Fall 2021 |
2020 | Daniel Thompson | “Spaces of Dissent: Violence and Cuban Catholic Resistance, 1959-1961” | Catholic Historical Review, Summer 2020 |
2019 | Not awarded | ||
2018 | Troy J. Tice | “‘Containing Heresy and Errors’: Thomas of Bailly and the Condemned Extracts of the Mirror of Simple Souls” | Catholic Historical Review, Autumn 2018 |
2017 | Kathleen Walkowiak | “Public Authority and Private Constraints: Eugenius III and the Council of Reims” | Catholic Historical Review, Summer 2017 |
2016 | Christopher Riedel, Ph.D. | “Praising God Together: Monastic Reformers and Laypeople in Tenth-Century Winchester” | Catholic Historical Review, Spring 2016 |
2015 | Scott Berg | “Seeing Prussia through Austrian Eyes: The Kölner Ereignis and Its Significance for Church and State in Central Europe” | Catholic Historical Review, Winter 2015 |
2014 | Anette Lippold | “Sisterly Advice and Eugenic Education: The Katholische Deutsche Frauenbund and German Catholic Marriage Counseling in the 1920s and 1930s” | Catholic Historical Review, Winter 2014 |
2013 | Sean Fabun | “Catholic Chaplains in the Civil War” | Catholic Historical Review, Winter 2013 |
2012 | Julia G. Young | “Cristero Diaspora: Mexican Emigrants, the U.S. Catholic Church, and Mexico’s Cristero War, 1926-1929“ | Catholic Historical Review, April 2012 |
2011 | Seth Marshall Meehan | “From Patriotism to Pluralism: How Catholics Initiated the Repeal of Birth Control Restrictions in Massachusetts” | Catholic Historical Review, Summer 2010 |