The first-prize winner, announced earlier this month, was Marna Simon, who studied William Penn and the Moravian community that settled her hometown of Bethlehem, Pa.
Sarah Gordon Weiss took second place with her research on the Quaker community that settled in Lusum — now Jericho, N.Y.
Honorable mention went to Emily Holtzer of Holiday Springs, Fla., who wrote a descriptive poem about the biblical influence on the settlers.