2022 Julian Clement Chase Prize Award Ceremony

Thursday, October 13th, 4-6 pm 

GW Museum - Textile Museum 701 21st Street NW, Washington DC  

(tours of the Washingtonia Collection available at 3:30pm)

To Join virtually, please complete the RSVP and we will send you a Zoom link. 

The event is free and open to the public.

The ceremony and reception honor exceptional research writing about the District of Columbia.

Tom Sherwood, our keynote speaker, is a Resident Analyst for The Politics Hour with Kojo Nnamdi and a Contributing Writer for Washington City Paper.

This year's Julian Clement Chase Prize winner is Izy Carney, "“Dirty Work” Pay: Environmental Racism and the 1970 Washington, D.C. Sanitation Strike." 

Honorable Mention goes to Wyatt Kirschner "45 Hardcore, Ass Bustin’ Radicals” and Three Infiltrators: Students for a Democratic Society at George Washington University and the FBI’s Counterintelligence Efforts Against Them."   

The Julian Clement Chase Prize is named in honor of Sgt. Julian Clement Chase, a native of Washington, D.C., who graduated in 2008 from DC’s Wilson High School. While serving with the United States Marine Corps, he was killed in action at the age of 22 in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. He was set to matriculate as a freshman at GW in the spring of 2013.  Born in Washington, Julian knew and relished his city. His family has established this prize in his honor to recognize others who explore D.C. with the intelligence and exuberance that he did.

Advanced registration is not required to attend in person, but RSVPs are appreciated.

To receive the Zoom link to join virtually, please RSVP by October 9.  We will send Zoom the zoom link October 10th.

If you have any questions about the award, please contact Phyllis Ryder.