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Article Prize Winners

For an article in the fields of the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality

2020 > Rosanna Dent, ‘Subject 01: exemplary Indigenous masculinity in Cold War genetics’, British Journal of the History of Science, 53 (3), September 2020

2019 > Elisa Camiscioli, “Coercion and Choice: The ‘Traffic in Women’ between France and Argentina in the Early Twentieth Century,” French Historical Studies, Vol. 42, No. 3 (August 2019): 483-507.

2018 > Satyasikha Chakraborty, “European Nurses and Governesses in Indian Princely Households: “Uplifting that impenetrable veil”?” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 19/1 (Spring 2018).

2017 > Cassia Roth, “From Free Womb to Criminalized Woman: Fertility Control in Brazilian Slavery and Freedom.” Slavery & Abolition, 38:2

2016 > Amy Stanley, “Maidservants’ Tales: Narrating Domestic and Global History in Eurasia, 1600-1900,” American Historical Review, vol. 121, no. 2, March 2016, pp. 437-460.

2015 > Rebecca Jo Plant and Frances M. Clarke, “The Crowning Insult”; Federal Segregation and the Gold Star Mother and Widow Pilgrimages of the Early 1930s”; Journal of American History, 102: 2 (September 2015).

2014 > Katherine Paugh, “Yaws, Syphilis, Sexuality, and the Circulation of Medical Knowledge in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World,” in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 88, Number 2, Summer 2014, pp. 225-252.
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Carina Ray, “Decrying White Peril: Interracial Sex and the Rise of Anticolonial Nationalism in the Gold Coast,” appearing in the American Historical Review, February 2014.

2013 > Jaime Wadowiec, “Muslim Algerian Women and the Rights of Man: Islam and Gendered Citizenship in French Algeria at the End of Empire,” appearing in French Historical Studies, vol. 36, no. 4 (Fall 2013): 649-676.

For article in any field of history other than the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality

2020 > Amy Chazkel, ‘Toward a History of Rights in the City at Night: Making and Breaking the Nightly Curfew in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 62 (1), 2020

2019 > Bathsheba Demuth, “The Walrus and the Bureaucrat: Energy, Ecology, and Making the State in the Russian and American Arctic, 1870-1950,” The American Historical Review, Vol. 124, No. 2 (April 2019): 483–510.

2018> Kimberly A. Arkin, “Historicity, Peoplehood, and Politics: Holocaust Talk in Twenty-First-Century France.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 60/4 (October 2018).
and
Yumi Kim, “Seeing Cages: Home Confinement in Early Twentieth-Century Japan.” The Journal of Asian Studies 77/3 (August 2018).

2017> Carole McGranahan, “Imperial but Not Colonial: Archival Truths, British India, and the Case of the “Naughty” Tibetans.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol 59, No 1.
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Vanessa Ogle, “Archipelago Capitalism: Tax Havens, Offshore Money, and the State, 1950s-1970s,” American Historical Review, 122, no. 5.

2016 > Devra Anne Weber, “Wobblies of the Partido Liberal Mexicano: Reenvisioning Internationalist and Transnational Movements through Mexican Lenses,” Pacific Historical Review, 85, no. 2 (May 2016), 188-226.

2015 > Debora L. Silverman, “Diasporas of Art: History, the Tervuren Royal Museum for Central Africa, and the Politics of Memory in Belgium, 1885–2014,” The Journal of Modern History 87: 3 (September 2015).

2014 > Julia Phillips Cohen, “Oriental by Design: Ottoman Jews, Imperial Style, and the Performance of Heritage” in American Historical Review, April 2014.

2013 > Molly Loberg,  “The Streetscape of Economic Crisis: Commerce, Politics, and Urban Space in Interwar Berlin,” Journal of Modern History, Vol 85, no. 2 (June 2013): 364-402.

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2022 Berks AHA Grant

The Berkshire Conference of Women’s Historians has been awarded funding from the American Historical Association’s Grants to Sustain and Advance the Work of Historical Organizations Program, which provides relief to institutions adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This opportunity was made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The Berkshire Conference’s project is entitled Creating Student Affiliates and Speakers’ Networks to Diversify and Expand Women’s Histories and Reach. … Read More >>

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2023 Big Berks

Session at the 4th Big Berks, classroom at Mount Holyoke College, 1978

The program committee is looking for volunteers who are willing to serve as chair, commentator or moderator for sessions that may be created from single papers or sessions that might lack those positions. If you plan to be at the Big Berks 2023, are not serving in any other role in the … Read More »

Prizes

Two Women Fencing,. ca. 1885

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians awards two annual book and article prizes in the following categories: A first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality. A first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, … Read More »

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