Fran Dolan has been awarded the John Ben Snow Prize for her book, True Relations: Reading, Literature and Evidence in Seventeenth-Century England. I am pleased to say that the prize has now been officially announced and posted on the NACBS website. See the following link:
http://www.nacbs.org/prizes/john-ben-snow-prize/ And here's the citation it posts:  "In this ambitious work, Frances Dolan reminds us that our own contemporary reading practices are grounded in seventeenth-century innovations that paired the notion that the 'real' is constructed with a methodology that demanded multiple interpretive maneuvers. For Dolan, the trope of 'true relations' in the seventeenth century signaled the idea that texts were understood to be both truthful and relational, bound up in the scientific, religious, and social transformations of the period.  Dolan illuminates the subjective practice of reading by re-examining sources ranging from narratives of the Gunpowder Plot and the Great Fire of London to conduct manuals, depositions, and drama. In so doing, she successfully reminds us that reading was, in a very material sense, dependent upon the reader's social relationship to the storyteller, the tale, and the wider cultural constellations through which each text circulated. Dolan's interdisciplinary approach to her subject challenges us to confront the stakes in our own modes of identifying and using 'evidence' and the wider social and intellectual relations that such use reveals or conceals--a timely and significant achievement." Congratulations, Fran!