// Prizes and Awards

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians has established three forms of professional recognition:

  • Book Prizes
  • Article Prizes
  • Graduate Awards

The 2012 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prizes

The Berkshire Conference awards two book prizes:

  • 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.
  • 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 have been published during the period January 1, 2012 through December 31, 2012.  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 FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2013

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

The 2012 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prizes

We invite journal editors and authors to submit articles published in the year 2012 for consideration for the Berkshire Conference Article Prizes. The Berkshire Conference now awards two Article Prizes.

  • For an article in any field of history published in 2012 by a woman who is normally resident in North America. This prize is not restricted by field.
  • For an article in the fields of the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality, published in 2012 by a woman who is normally resident in North America.

If appropriate, an article will be considered for both prizes.

DEADLINE  FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2013

Submissions for the article prize should be sent to:

Faye Dudden
Department of History
318 Alumni Hall
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346

For more information on the article prize, or to send electronic copies of your submission, please contact Faye Dudden at fdudden@colgate.edu

We can accept photo-copies, offprints of the article, or pdfs. If sending copies or offprints, you must send three. Do not send the entire journal in which the article appears.

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 2012. 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, including a contact phone number and e-mail address. Author submissions coming should contain a contact address and  e-mail address 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 authors shall also receive a $500 award.

Graduate Student Awards

The Coordinating Council on Women in the Historical Profession (CCWH) and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians co-sponsor annual competitions for a $1,000 Graduate Student Award to assist in the completion of dissertation work. The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing. The applicant must be a woman graduate student historian in a history department in a U.S. institution; must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application; may specialize in any field of history; may hold this award and others simultaneously; and need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award. We regret that neither high school students nor undergraduates are eligible for this scholarship.  This prize is not administered by teh Berkshire Conference of Women Historians: please visit the CCWH website for the most up-to-date information.

SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2013 CCWH/BERKSHIRE CONFERENCE GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD ARE NOW CLOSED.