I. For a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality:
2015 > Talitha L. LeFlouria. Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Finalists for this award
- Sara Fieldston. Raising the World: Child Welfare in the American Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Olivia Weisser. Ill Composed: Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015.
2014 > Susanah Shaw Romney. New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America. Chapel Hill: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
2013 > Camille Robcis, The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in Twentieth-Century France, Cornell University Press, 2013.
II. For a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality
2015 > Vanessa Ogle. The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
Finalists for this award
- Sanya Aiyar. Indians in Kenya: The Politics of Diaspora. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Ruramisai Charumbira. Imagining a Nation: History and Memory in Making Zimbabwe. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2015.
- Dana Simmons. Vital Minimum: Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.
2014 > Tatiana Seijas, Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: from Chinos to Indians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
2013 > Teresa Barnett, Sacred Relics: Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America, University of Chicago Press, 2013.
