The Stevens Award is given for the best article by a student to appear in the Georgia Historical Quarterly in a two-year period, and carries an award of $250. The award was established in 1980 and honors William Bacon Stevens, one of Georgia's premier historians and a founder of GHS.

Previous Winners (partial list):

2006-2007: Daniel Bronstein, "La Cubana City: A Cuban Cigar Manufacturing Community near Thomasville, Georgia during the 1890s," Fall 2006

2004-2005: Codrina Cozma, "John Martin Bolzius and the Early Christian Opposition to Slavery in Georgia," Winter 2004