Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize

Last updated

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prizes are awarded each year by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. [1] 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", [2] 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." [2]

Contents

Winners

YearWinnerTitle
1990Jo Burr MargadantMadame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic [3]
1990 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich The Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812 [4]
1991Nancy Leys Stepan"The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender and Nation in Latin America [5]
1991 Marilyn B. Young The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 [6]
1992Phyllis MackVisionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in 17th Century England [7]
1993Wendy Z. GoldmanWomen, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 [8]
1993 Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 [9] [10]
1994 Linda Gordon Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare
1995Kathryn Kish SklarFlorence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900
1996 Isabel V. Hull Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815
1996

Honorable Mention

Kathleen M. BrownGood Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia [11]
1997Alice ConklinA Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 [12]
1998 Jill Lepore Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity [13] [14]
1999 Ada Ferrer Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution 1868-1898 [15] [16] [17]
2000Karin Alejandra RosemblattGendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 [18]
2000Elizabeth ThompsonColonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon [19]
2001Clare Haru CrowstonFabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 [20] [21]
2002Patricia M. PelleyPostcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past [22]
2002 Samantha Power "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide [23] [24]
2003Nancy AppelbaumMuddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948 [25]
2004 Mae M. Ngai Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America [26]
2004Ruth RogaskiHygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China [27]
2005Lisa Forman CodyBirthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of the Eighteenth Century Britons [28] [29]
2006Sandra BardsleyVenomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England [30]
2006Maureen FitzgeraldHabits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920 [31]
2007Juliana BarrPeace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands [32]
2008Weijing LuTrue to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China [33]
2009Hannah RosenTerror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South [34]
2010Christina SnyderSlavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America [35] [36]
2010

Honorable Mention

Jennifer GuglielmoLiving the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 [37]
2011Kate HaulmanThe Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America [38]
2011Kate RamseyThe Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti [39]
2012Adria L. ImadaAloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire [40] [41] [42]
2012Françoise HamlinCrossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after WW II [43]
2013Camille RobcisThe Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in Twentieth-Century France [44]
2013Teresa BarnettSacred Relics: Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America [45]
2014Susanah Shaw RomneyNew Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America [46] [47]
2014Tatiana SeijasAsian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: from Chinos to Indians [48]
2015Talitha L. LeFlouriaChained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South [49]
2015Vanessa OgleThe Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950 [50] [51]
2016Marisa J. FuentesDispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive [52]
2016Anya ZilbersteinA Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America [53]
2017 Sasha Turner Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica [54]
2017S. Debora KangThe INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954
2018Keisha N. BlainSet the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
2018Christine M. DeLucia Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast
2019Lauren Jae GuttermanHer Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
2019Sarah A. SeoPolicing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom
2020Gina A. TamDialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960
2020Alice L. BaumgartnerSouth to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War
2020 Jessica Marie Johnson Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
2021Sara T. DamianoTo Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities
2021Shahla HussainKashmir in the Aftermath of Partition
2022Christina RamosBedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment
2022Brooke M. BauerBecoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laurel Thatcher Ulrich</span> American historian

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. Her approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people". Ulrich has also been a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient. Her most famous book, A Midwife’s Tale, was later the basis for a PBS documentary film.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Claudia Goldin</span> American economist

Claudia Dale Goldin is an American economic historian and labor economist. She is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. In October 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for having advanced our understanding of women's labor market outcomes”. The third woman to win the award, she was the first woman to win the award solo.

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is an American historian and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her scholarship and teaching forwarded the emergence of U.S. women's history in the 1960s and 1970s, helped to inspire new research on Southern labor history and the long civil rights movement, and encouraged the use of oral history sources in historical research. She is the author of Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching;Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World and Sisters and Rebels: The Struggle for the Soul of America.

Jennifer Guglielmo is a writer, historian and associate professor at Smith College, specializing in the histories of labor, race, women, im/migration, transnational cultures and activisms, and revolutionary social movements in the modern United States. She has published on a range of topics, including women’s organizing in garment, textile and domestic work, working-class feminisms, anarchism, whiteness and the Italian diaspora.

Rayna Rapp is a professor and associate chair of anthropology at New York University, specializing in gender and health; the politics of reproduction; science, technology, and genetics; and disability in the United States and Europe. She has contributed over 80 published works to the field of anthropology, independently, as a co-author, editor, and foreword-writing, including Robbie Davis-Floyd and Carolyn Sargent's Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge. Her 1999 book, Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: the Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America, received multiple awards upon release and has been praised for providing "invaluable insights into the first generation of women who had to decide whether or not to terminate their pregnancies on the basis of amniocentesis result". She co-authored many articles with Faye Ginsburg, including Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship, a topic the pair has continued to research.

Ada Ferrer is a Cuban-American historian. She is Julius Silver Professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University, and will join the faculty at Princeton University as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History in July of 2024. She was awarded the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Cuba: An American History.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nancy MacLean</span> American professor of history (born 1959)

Nancy K. MacLean is an American historian. She is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. MacLean's research focuses on race, gender, labor history and social movements in 20th-century U.S. history, with particular attention to the U.S. South.

Barbara Ransby is a writer, historian, professor, and activist. She is an elected fellow of the Society of American Historians, and holds the John D. MacArthur Chair at the University of Illinois Chicago.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Laura Briggs</span> Feminist scholar and historian

Laura Briggs is a feminist critic and historian of reproductive politics and US empire. She works on transnational and transracial adoption and the relationship between race, sex, gender, and US imperialism. Her 2012 book Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption won the James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for best book on the history of US race relations and has been featured on numerous college syllabi in the US and Canada. Briggs serves as professor and chair of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Tera Hunter is an American scholar of African-American history and gender. She holds the Edwards Professor of American History Endowed Chair at Princeton University. She specializes in the study of gender, race, and labor in the history of the Southern United States.

<i>The Creation of Patriarchy</i> 1986 book by Gerda Lerner

The Creation of Patriarchy is a non-fiction book written by Gerda Lerner in 1986 as an explanation for the origins of misogyny in ancient Mesopotamia and the following Western societies. She traces the "images, metaphors, [and] myths" that lead to patriarchal concepts' existence in Western society. She believes that the creation of patriarchy in the ancient Near East was a 2500-year period from nearly 3100 BC to 600 BC rather than a single event.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Keisha N. Blain</span> American historian

Keisha N. Blain is an American writer and scholar of American and African-American history. She is Professor of Africana Studies and History at Brown University. Blain served as president of the African American Intellectual History Society from 2017 to 2021. Blain is associated with the Charleston Syllabus social media movement.

Marisa J. Fuentes is a writer, historian, and academic from the United States. She is an Associate Professor of Women & Gender Studies and History and the Presidential Term Chair in African American History at Rutgers University, where she has taught since 2009.

Fatma Müge Göçek is a Turkish sociologist and professor at the University of Michigan. She wrote the book Denial of Violence in 2015 concerning the prosectution of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, for which she received the Mary Douglas award for best book from the American Sociological Association. In 2017, she won a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award from the university.

Mo Moulton is an American author and historian of 20th century Britain and Ireland, interested in gender, sexuality, and colonialism/postcolonialism. They are a senior lecturer in the history of race and empire at the University of Birmingham.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sasha Turner</span> Jamaican-American historian

Sasha Deborah Turner is a Jamaican-American historian who is an associate professor of history of at the Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Medicine. Her research considers the history of the Caribbean, with a particular focus on enslavement and colonialism. She is co-president of the Coordinating Council for Women in History.

Carrie N. Baker is an American lawyer, Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies, and Chair of the Program for the Study of Women and Gender at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She teaches courses on gender, law, public policy, and feminist activism and is affiliated with the American Studies program, the archives concentration, and the public policy minor. She co-founded and is a former co-director of the certificate in Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice Program offered by the Five College Consortium.

Julie Sze is Professor of American Studies at University of California, Davis. Her research deals with environmental justice, inequality and culture; race, gender and power; and community health and activism.

Premilla Nadasen is an activist and historian, who specialises in the histories of women of colour in the welfare rights movement. She was President of the National Women's Studies Association from 2018 to 2020. She is the author of Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (2005) and Household Workers Unite: The Untold Story of African American Women Who Built a Movement (2016).

Susan Kathleen Cahn is a historian known for her work on women's studies and LGBTQ topics. She is a professor at the University of Buffalo.

References

  1. ↑ "Berkshire Conference First Book Prize | Book awards | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  2. 1 2 "Book Prize Winners | Berkshire Conference of Women Historians". Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
  3. ↑ "Margadant, J.B.: Madame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic. ([Out of Print])". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  4. ↑ A Midwife's Tale by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | PenguinRandomHouse.com.
  5. ↑ Stepan, Nancy Leys (1992-01-01). "The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN   9780801497957.
  6. ↑ THE VIETNAM WARS 1945-1990 by Marilyn Young | Kirkus Reviews.
  7. ↑ Messing, Stacey. "Mack, Phyllis". womens-studies.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-31.[ permanent dead link ]
  8. ↑ "Women, the State and Revolution by Wendy Z. Goldman". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  9. ↑ Stuart, Paul H. (1995-09-01). "Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn". Social Service Review. 69 (3): 535–536. doi:10.1086/604143. ISSN   0037-7961.
  10. ↑ Hill, Copyright 2016 The University of North Carolina at Chapel. "UNC Press - Black Neighbors". uncpresswebserv.uncpress.unc.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ Deal, Douglas (1998-01-01). "Review of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia". The Journal of Southern History. 64 (1): 117–119. doi:10.2307/2588075. JSTOR   2588075.
  12. ↑ "History Faculty Member Awarded Prestigious Book Prize". www.rochester.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  13. ↑ THE NAME OF WAR by Jill Lepore | Kirkus Reviews.
  14. ↑ Jalalzai, Zubeda (1998-01-01). "Review of The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity". The New England Quarterly. 71 (4): 662–665. doi:10.2307/366615. JSTOR   366615.
  15. ↑ Estrade, Paul (2003-01-01). "Review of Insurgent Cuba. Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898". Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 58 (1): 228–229. doi:10.1017/s0395264900002869. JSTOR   27587144.
  16. ↑ Kutzinski, Vera M. (2001-01-01). "Review of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898". Social History. 26 (1): 128–130. JSTOR   4286747.
  17. ↑ Howard, Philip A. (2001-01-01). "Review of Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898". The American Historical Review. 106 (2): 613–614. doi:10.2307/2651711. JSTOR   2651711.
  18. ↑ Tinsman, Heidi (2004-01-01). Chambers, Sarah C.; Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra; Thompson, Elizabeth (eds.). "Gender and Citizenship: A Review of Recent Works". Feminist Studies. 30 (1): 200–210. JSTOR   3178570.
  19. ↑ Makdisi, Ussama (2004-01-01). "Review of Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 36 (2): 309–311. doi:10.1017/s0020743804422065. JSTOR   3880056.
  20. ↑ Collins, James B. (2003-01-01). "Review of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675—1791". Enterprise & Society. 4 (3): 557–559. JSTOR   23700420.
  21. ↑ Pilbeam, Pamela (2003-01-01). "Reviews of Books". The American Historical Review. 108 (1): 269. doi:10.1086/533185. JSTOR   10.1086/533185.
  22. ↑ Womack, Sarah Whitney (2003-01-01). "Review of Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past". The Journal of Asian Studies. 62 (4): 1336–1337. doi:10.2307/3591845. JSTOR   3591845.
  23. ↑ A PROBLEM FROM HELL by Samantha Power | Kirkus Reviews.
  24. ↑ Secor, Laura (2002-04-14). "Turning a Blind Eye". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  25. ↑ Arredondo, León (2008-01-01). "Review of Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948". American Anthropologist. 110 (1): 83–84. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1433.2008.00018_4.x. JSTOR   27563891.
  26. ↑ Barnhill, John (2004-07-01). "Review of Ngai, Mae M., Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America". www.h-net.org. Retrieved 2017-03-13.
  27. ↑ Lam, Tong (2009-01-01). "Review of Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China". The Journal of Asian Studies. 68 (3): 954–956. doi:10.1017/s0021911809990271. JSTOR   20619816.
  28. ↑ Sha, Richard C. (2006-01-01). "Review of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons". The Historian. 68 (4): 865–867. doi:10.1111/j.1540-6563.2006.00169_41.x. JSTOR   24453788.
  29. ↑ Frankel, Oz (2006-01-01). "Review of Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britain". International Labor and Working-Class History (70): 175–178. doi:10.1017/S0147547906000275. JSTOR   27673061.
  30. ↑ Euler, Carrie (2008-01-01). "Review of Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England". Journal of Social History. 42 (1): 205–207. doi:10.1353/jsh.0.0072. JSTOR   25096610.
  31. ↑ Przybyszewski, Linda (2009-01-01). Fitzgerald, Maureen (ed.). "Inventing the Welfare State: The Religious Dimension". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 8 (3): 450–452. doi:10.1017/s1537781400001353. JSTOR   40542842.
  32. ↑ Snyder, Christina (2008-01-01). "Review of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands". Journal of American Ethnic History. 27 (2): 105–106. JSTOR   40543340.
  33. ↑ Ropp, Paul S. (2009-01-01). "Review of True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China". The Journal of Asian Studies. 68 (1): 272–273. doi:10.1017/S0021911809000266. JSTOR   20619692.
  34. ↑ "Terror in the Heart of Freedom | Hannah Rosen | University of North Carolina". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  35. ↑ "Slavery in Indian Country — Christina Snyder | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  36. ↑ "Native American and Indigenous Studies | Department of American Studies | Indiana University Bloomington". www.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  37. ↑ "Living the Revolution | Jennifer Guglielmo | University of North Carolina". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  38. ↑ "The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America | Kate Haulman | University of North Carolina". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  39. ↑ The Spirits and the Law.
  40. ↑ "Aloha America | Duke University Press". www.dukeupress.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  41. ↑ HAZEL, YADIRA PEREZ (2013-01-01). "Review of Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire". The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 122 (1): 81–83. JSTOR   43285214.
  42. ↑ Saraswati, L. Ayu (2013-01-01). "Review of ALOHA AMERICA: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire". American Studies. 52 (3): 103–104. doi:10.1353/ams.2013.0086. JSTOR   41969541.
  43. ↑ Loke, Sumner Warren,Charis. "Crossroads at Clarksdale". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  44. ↑ Robcis, Camille (2013-04-08). The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN   9780801478772.
  45. ↑ Sacred Relics.
  46. ↑ "New Netherland Connections | Susanah Shaw Romney | University of North Carolina". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  47. ↑ Meuwese, Mark (2015-01-01). "Review of New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America". The William and Mary Quarterly. 72 (1): 188–192. doi:10.5309/willmaryquar.72.1.0188. JSTOR   10.5309/willmaryquar.72.1.0188.
  48. ↑ "Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico by Tatiana Seijas". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  49. ↑ "Chained in Silence | Talitha L. LeFlouria | University of North Carolina". University of North Carolina Press. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  50. ↑ "The Global Transformation of Time — Vanessa Ogle | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  51. ↑ Minella, Timothy K. (2017-01-01). "Review of The Global Transformation of Time, 1870–1950". Agricultural History. 91 (1): 125–126. doi:10.3098/ah.2017.091.1.125. JSTOR   10.3098/ah.2017.091.1.125.
  52. ↑ "Dispossessed Lives | Marisa J. Fuentes". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  53. ↑ "Current Prize Winners". Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Retrieved 4 May 2018.
  54. ↑ "Contested Bodies | Sasha Turner". www.upenn.edu. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.