The Berkshire Conference of Women Historian invites nominations for the 2011 book and article prizes.

Book Prize

Congratulations to Christina Snyder, winner of the 2010 Book Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for her Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America (Harvard University Press, 2010).

The Berkshire Conference now awards two book prizes. One prize is for a first book in any field of history written by a woman who is normally resident in North America.  This prize is not restricted by historical field.  The other prize is also for a first book written by a woman normally resident in North America, but it will be awarded to a book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality.  Only one copy of a book needs to be submitted; if relevant, it will be considered for both prizes.  Textbooks, juveniles, documentary collections, fiction, poetry, and collections of essays are not eligible for either prize.

For this year’s competition, each entry must be published during the period January 1, 2011 through December 31, 2011.  If a book carries a copyright date that is different from the publication date, but the actual publication date falls within the window of eligibility, please include a letter of explanation from the publisher.

Deadline:  January 15, 2012

Submissions for the book prize should be sent to:

Serena Zabin

History Department, Leighton Hall

Carleton College

1 N College St,

Northfield, MN, 55057

For more information on the book prize please contact Serena Zabin at szabin@carleton.edu

Article Prize

Congratulations to Sherry L. Smith, winner of the Article Prize of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians for 2010 for her “Reconciliation and Restitution in the American West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 41 (Spring 2010): 4-25.

We invite Journal Editors and Authors to submit articles published in the year 2011 for consideration for the Berkshire Conference Article Prizes. The Berkshire Conference now awards two Article Prizes. One prize is for an article in any field of history published in 2011 by a woman who is normally resident in North America. This prize is not restricted by field. The other prize is for an article in the fields of the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality, published in 2011 by a woman who is normally resident in North America. If appropriate, an article will be considered for both prizes.

Deadline:  January 15, 2012

Three (3) copies of the article should be sent to:

Faye Dudden

Department of History, 318 Alumni Hall

Colgate University

Hamilton, NY 13346

We can accept photo-copies, offprints of the article, or pdf’s attached to email. If you are sending copies or offprints, please send three. Do not send the entire journal in which the article appears. Information on previous years’ winners can be found at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians’ web site (www.berksconference.org). Articles may be nominated by journals or by the author herself; journals may nominate more than one article. Jointly published articles are acceptable, as are articles that have appeared in collections, but only if they were published for the first time in 2011. They must not be reprints of articles published in previous years. Journals should indicated in a cover letter that they are submitting articles for the prize competition, and include a contact phone number and e-mail address at the journal. Submissions coming directly from authors should contain a contact address (including e-mail) for the author. Winners are notified in early summer and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement on the Berkshire website and other public sites. The winning author shall also receive a $500 award.

For further information, please contact Faye Dudden at fdudden@colgate.edu.