Western Association of Women Historians
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Congratulations to the 2012 WAWH Award Winners
Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize
Carrie Adkins, “Gentlemen’s Daughters,” “Womanly Women,” and “Hen Medics”: Class, Gender, and Medical Education in the United States, 1870-1920.
Founders' Dissertation Fellowship
Katie Jarvis, "Politics in the Marketplace: The Popular Activism and Cultural Representation of the Dames des Halles during the French Revolution," University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Judith Lee Ridge Ridge Prize
Charise Cheney, “Blacks on Brown: Intra-Community Debates Over School Desegregation in Topeka, Kansas, 1941-1955,” published in the Western Historical Quarterly 42 (Winter 2011): 481-500.
Gita Chaudhuri Prize
Nwando Achebe, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011).
Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize
Nwando Achebe, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011).
Elizabeth Heineman, Honorable Mention, Before Porn was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse (University of Chicago, 2011)
Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize
Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East And West Germans Made The Iron Curtain (Oxford University Press, 2011).
WAWH 2013 Conference
The 2013 WAWH Conference will be May 16-18, 2013, at Unversity Place at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
The keynote speaker will be Gail Hershatter (University of California, Santa Cruz). There will be a special session to honor the work of Lois Banner (University of Southern California).
The call for papers is now available. The proposal deadline is September 14, 2012. More information about the 2013 conference will be posted soon.
WAWH Donations for Awards and Prizes
WAWH is working to re-endow its awards and prizes. Please consider donation, of any amount, to support any of the six awards and prizes. You may use the WAWH Donation Form to send your tax-deductable donation.
Learn about other conference and awards and professional opportunities of interest.
updated May 13, 2012