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Current Prize Winners

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is pleased to announce the following awards for books and articles published in 2019.

Book Awards

For a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality

Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom book cover2019 > Sarah A. Seo
Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2019).

Finalist for this award: Amy C. Offner
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy: The Rise and Fall of the Welfare and Developmental State in the Americas (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019).

For a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality

Her Neighbor's Wife - A History of Lesbian Desie within Marriage cover2019 > Lauren Jae Gutterman
Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).

Finalist for this award: Katie L. Jarvis
Politics in the Marketplace: Work, Gender, and Citizenship in Revolutionary France (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019).

2018-2019 Berkshire Book Prizes Committee

    • Amanda Herbert, Chair, Folger Library
    • Christian Ayne Crouch, Bard College
    • Crystal Feimster, Yale University
    • Anna Krylova, Duke University
    • Yumi Moon, Stanford University
    • Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University Chicago
    • Tatiana Seijas, Pennsylvania State University

Article Awards

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

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.

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

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.

2017-2018 Berkshire Article Prizes Committee

  • Jennifer Nelson, Chair, Redlands University
  • Tamar Carroll, Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Mita Choudhury, Vassar College
  • Margaret H. Darrow, Dartmouth College  
  • Marisa Fuentes, Rutgers University
  • Katrina Gulliver, Independent Scholar
  • Shirley Lim, Stony Brook University
  • Betty C. Luther-Hillman, Exeter
  • Barbara Molony, Santa Clara University
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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, gender, and/or … Read More »

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