Kilby Research Grant

In 1982, the Clyde S. Kilby Research Grant was established by Wheaton College's class of 1939 in honor of their former professor and faculty class sponsor. This endowed award is presented annually by the Steering Committee of the Marion E. Wade Center to a scholar engaged in a publishable project related to one of the seven Wade authors. The intention of the award is both to recognize scholarly contributions and also to assist the work of those who use the resources of the Wade Center.

There is no application process for the Kilby Research Grant. Researchers become eligible by having visited and used the research materials of the Wade Center. Further information on this award may be obtained by researchers once they are at the Wade.

Kilby Research Grant Recipients

Year	Recipient	Study
2011	Monika Hilder	Triad publication of the following: The Feminine Ethos in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia (July 2012), The Gender Dance: Ironic Subversion in C.S. Lewis's Cosmic Trilogy (early 2013), and Surprised by the Feminine: A Rereading of C.S. Lewis and Gender (2013).
2011	Nancy Brown	How Far is it to Bethlehem: The Plays and Poetry of Frances Chesterton
2010	Abby Santamaria	A biography of Joy Davidman
2009	Grevel Lindop	Charles Williams: The Last Magician
2008	Ronald W. Bresland	Forthcoming book on C.S. Lewis and Ireland
2007	Suzanne Bray	The Christ of the Creeds & Other Broadcast Messages to the British People during World War II by Dorothy L. Sayers. Introduction & notes by Suzanne Bray (Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 2008)
2006	Michael Ward	Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis (Oxford UP, 2008)
	Simon Blaxland-de Lange	Owen Barfield: Romanticism Comes of Age (Temple Lodge, 2006)
2005	Kerry Dearborn	The Baptized Imagination: The Theology of George MacDonald (Ashgate Publishing, 2007)
2004	Joel Heck	Irrigating Deserts: C.S. Lewis on Education (Concordia Publishing House, 2005)
	Laura K. Simmons	Creed without Chaos: Exploring Theology in the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers (Baker Academic, 2005)
	Wayne Martindale	Beyond the Shadowlands: C.S. Lewis on Heaven and Hell (Crossway Books, 2005)
2003	K. James Gilchrist	A Morning After War: C.S. Lewis and WWI (Peter Lang, 2005)
2002	Peter Schakel	Imagination and the Arts in C.S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds (University of Missouri Press, 2002)
2001	Crystal Downing	Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
2000	David Downing	The Most Reluctant Convert: C.S. Lewis's Journey to Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2002)
1999	Michael Travers	Forthcoming book to be titled A Severe Delight: Exile and Longing in C.S. Lewis (co-written with Bruce Edwards)
1998	No award given
1997	Diana Pavlac Glyer	The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community (Kent State University Press, 2006)
	John Rateliff	The History of the Hobbit, Part One: Mr. Baggins and The History of the Hobbit, Part Two: Return to Bag-End (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
1996	John Peterson	Father Brown and the Church of Rome (Ignatius Press, 1996)
1995	Don King	C.S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse (Kent State University Press, 2001)
1994	Colin Duriez	The Inklings Handbook (Chalice Press, 2001)
1993	Mary Ellen Ashcroft	Forthcoming book entitled “The Ideal of Work in the Life and Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers ”
1992	Stephen Thorson	Forthcoming book entitled “Joy and Poetic Imagination: C.S. Lewis’s Dispute with Owen Barfield”
1990	Roma King, Jr.	The Pattern in the Web: The Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams (Kent State University Press, 1990)
	Janine Goffar	C.S. Lewis Index: Rumours from the Sculptor's Shop (La Sierra University Press, 1995)
	Wayne Hammond	J.R.R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography (St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1992)
1989	Rolland Hein	George MacDonald: Victorian Mythmaker (Star Song Publishing Group, 1993)
1988	Aidan Mackey	Collected Poetry, Part I (Ignatius Press, 1994)
1987	Paul Ford	Forthcoming book on C.S. Lewis
1986	Barbara Reynolds	The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers' Encounter with Dante (Kent State University Press, 1989)
1985	Lionel Adey	C.S. Lewis: Writer, Dreamer, and Mentor (Eerdmans, 1998)
1984	Alzina Stone Dale	Love All and Busman's Honeymoon, ed. (Kent State University Press, 1984)
1983	H. William Griffin	Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life (Harper and Row, 1986)
1982	George Sayer	Jack: C.S. Lewis and His Times (Harper and Row, 1988)
	Lyle W. Dorsett	And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman, Her Life and Marriage to C.S. Lewis (Macmillan, 1983) 2nd edition title changed to A Love Observed