Roan Vaughan Civil Resistance Writing Prize

The Roan Vaughan Civil Resistance Writing Prize will award two prizes of $500 each to the best papers written by an undergraduate History major or History certificate student on the history of nonviolent protest and/or civil resistance. Papers written in any History class are eligible and can be diverse in geographic and temporal breadth, but priority will be given to those that focus on the Global South. Published work by interns with the Nonviolence Project is also eligible but must be accompanied by a one-page explanation of the process by which the intern came to the topic and researched and wrote the piece that they are submitting. If not already published there, the winning pieces of writing may be published on the Nonviolence Project website.

The prize is named in honor of UW-Madison History Major Roan Vaughan, who tragically passed away in September 2024. Roan was an outstanding student and wonderful classmate in Professor Mou Banerjee’s History 600 class on “Nonviolence in the World.”

How to Apply
Students will be considered for the Civil Resistance Writing Prize by completing the Department of History Undergraduate Writing Prize Application in WiSH.

For questions about this award, please contact: undergraduateprogram@history.wisc.edu.