Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prizes are awarded each year by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Nominees must be women normally resident in North America who have published a book in the previous year. One prize recognizes an author's first book that "deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality", and the other prize recognizes "a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality."

Winners YearWinnerTitle1983Margaret W. RossiterWomen Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 19401990Jo Burr MargadantMadame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic1990Laurel Thatcher UlrichThe Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-18121991Nancy Leys Stepan"The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender and Nation in Latin America1991Marilyn B. YoungThe Vietnam Wars, 1945-19901992Phyllis MackVisionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in 17th Century England1993Wendy Z. GoldmanWomen, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-19361993Elisabeth Lasch-QuinnBlack Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-19451994Linda GordonPitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare1995Kathryn Kish SklarFlorence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-19001996Isabel V. HullSexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-18151996 Honorable MentionKathleen M. BrownGood Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia1997Alice ConklinA Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-19301998Jill LeporeName of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity1999Ada FerrerInsurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution 1868-18982000Karin Alejandra RosemblattGendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-19502000Elizabeth ThompsonColonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon2001Clare Haru CrowstonFabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-17912002Patricia M. PelleyPostcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past2002Samantha Power"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide2003Nancy AppelbaumMuddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-19482004Mae M. NgaiImpossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America2004Ruth RogaskiHygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China2005Lisa Forman CodyBirthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of the Eighteenth Century Britons2006Sandra BardsleyVenomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England2006Maureen FitzgeraldHabits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-19202007Juliana BarrPeace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands2008Weijing LuTrue to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China2009Hannah RosenTerror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South2010Christina SnyderSlavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America2010 Honorable MentionJennifer GuglielmoLiving the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 2011Kate HaulmanThe Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America2011Kate RamseyThe Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti2012Adria L. ImadaAloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire2012Françoise HamlinCrossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after WW II2013Camille RobcisThe Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in Twentieth-Century France2013Teresa BarnettSacred Relics: Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America2014Susanah Shaw RomneyNew Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America2014Tatiana SeijasAsian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: from Chinos to Indians2015Talitha L. LeFlouriaChained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South2015Vanessa OgleThe Global Transformation of Time, 1870-19502016Marisa J. FuentesDispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive2016Anya ZilbersteinA Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America2017Sasha TurnerContested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica2017S. Debora KangThe INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-19542018Keisha N. BlainSet the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom2018Christine M. DeLuciaMemory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast2019Lauren Jae GuttermanHer Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage2019Sarah A. SeoPolicing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom2020Gina A. Tam Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-19602020Alice L. BaumgartnerSouth to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War2020Jessica Marie JohnsonWicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World2021Sara T. DamianoTo Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities2021Shahla HussainKashmir in the Aftermath of Partition2022Christina RamosBedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment2022Brooke M. BauerBecoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-18402023Lucia CarminatiSeeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1850-19062023Elizabeth O'BrienSurgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770-19402024Michelle Lynn KahnForeign in Two Homelands: Racism, Return Migration, and Turkish-German History2024Eva PayneEmpire of Purity: The History of Americans' Global War on Prostitution

See also List of history awards

References

External links Winners of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize