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The Tytus Cytowski Rzeczpospolita Prize will be available for the first time to students who are writing their dissertations in the academic year 2024/25.
The Tytus Cytowski Rzeczpospolita Prize will be available for the first time to students who are writing their dissertations in the academic year 2024/25.
This is a newly established annual prize that will be awarded annually to the best dissertations on the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, its diverse people, and its legacies, within the period 1569-1918.
All dissertations should be submitted for the prize after they have been submitted for marking, so that they are available in their very final form.
Submissions are expected to begin in June 2025 to enable students who have completed their UG dissertations or submitted their final PG dissertation earlier in the academic year to submit promptly.
Submissions will remain open until the end of September 2025 so that those with September dissertation deadlines can also submit.
All awards will be announced together on Friday 14 November 2025.
The prize will be eligible to students of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), and the Departments of History and of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The prize for the best undergraduate dissertation will be US $2000, and for the second-best US $1000. This can be either a free-standing dissertation or written within a special subject.
The prize for the best postgraduate dissertation (MA, MRes., MPhil., or PhD degrees) will be US $5000, and for the second-best US $2000.
The prize will be judged jointly by Professor Richard Butterwick-Pawlikowski, Professor of Polish-Lithuanian History, and Professor Fran莽ois Guesnet, Professor of Modern Jewish History (or any successors thereof), who reserve the right not to make the full number of awards.