Western Association of Women Historians
Founders' Dissertation Fellowship
The Founders’ Dissertation Fellowship is an annual award to graduate students who show promise of significant contributions to historical scholarship. Funds from these Awards may be used for purposes directly or indirectly related to the dissertation, such as expenses for research, attendance of scholarly conferences, and the preparation of the dissertation. Award bylaws are available.
Previous Winners
2009
Robin Sager, "Marital Cruelty in Antebellum Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin." Rice University.
2008
Lindsay Holowach, University of California, Irvine, "Women in Revolution: A Biogaphy of Rosalie Ducrollay Jullien."
2007
Lauren Kientz, Michigan State University, "Cosmopolitan Ambitions: African-American
Scholars in Europe, 1919-1939."
2006
Liz Willis-Tropea, University of Southern California. "Hollywood Glamour: Sex, Power and Photography, 1925-1939."
2005
Eleonory Gilburd, UC Berkeley, "'To See Paris and Die': Foreign Culture in the Soviet Union, 1956-1968."
2004
Bonnie Miller, Johns Hopkins University, "'The Spectacular Little War': A Study of Spanish-American War Visual and Popular Culture."
2003
Amanda Littauer, University of California, Berkeley, "V-girls, B-girls and Vagrants: Women, Sexuality and Criminality in the Wartime and Postwar Urban West, 1943-1960."
2002
Amy Meschke, Southern Methodist University, "Bender and Inheritance in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1750-1846."
2001
Katherine Benton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "What About Women in the `White Man's Camp'? Gender, Class, and the Re-invention of Race in Cochise County, Arizona, 1853-1940."
2000
Chiou-ling Yeh, University of California at Irvine,“‘Taking it to the Streets’: Representations of Ethnicity and Gender in San Francisco’s Chinatown Chinese New Year Festivals, 1953-1993”
Honorable Mention: Katherine A. Benton, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “What About Women in the ‘White Man’s Camp’?: Gender, Class and the Reinvention of Race in Chochise County, AZ, 1853-1940”
1999
Lynn Sacco, "Not Talking About 'It': A History of Incest in the United States, 1900-1940."
1998
Bridget Ford
Van Nguyen-Marshall, University of British Columbia, “Issues of Poverty and Poor Relief in Colonial Northern Vietnam: The Interaction Between Colonial Modernism and Elite Vietnamese Thinking (1900-1945)”
1997
Marie Francois, University of Arizona, When Pawnshops Talk: Material Culture and Petty Credit in Mexico City."
Honorable Mention: Regina Lark, University of California, Los Angeles, "Japanese War Brides: Marriage and Migration."
1996
Jennifer L. Green, UCLA, "Charity to the poor in medieval Spain: The Catalan diocese of Girona, 1180-1285."
1995
Rebecca Lynn Winer, UCLA, "Silent Partners? Women, Commerce and the Family in Perpignan, c.1250-1300"
1994
Martha Rampton, University of Virginia, “The Gender of Magic in the Early Middle Ages.”
1993
Kathleen Gilmartin, Yale University, "'Call Me an Amazon;" Sexual Identities and Gender Among Colorado Lesbians, 1940-1960."
1992
Cecelia O'Leary, University of California, Berkeley, "Politics and Patriotism: The Making of an American Identity, 1870s to 1920s."
1991
Anne Marie Poole, University of California, Los Angeles, "Madonnas or Magdalenes?: Saint-Simonian Women, Paris, 1832-1834."
1990
Lois Huneycutt, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Margaret of Scotland, Edith-Matilda, and Formation of a Queenly Ideal in Medieval England."
Honorable Mention:
Kathryn A. Edwards, UCLA, “Families and Frontiers: Urban Reactions and Re-creations on the Burgundian Border, 1477 - c. 1530.”
Joan Waugh, UCLA, "Unsentimental Reformer: The life of Josephine Shaw Lowell."
1989
Lori Liowski, University of Southern California, "From Rhetoric to Reality: Unionism and the Shaping of Winneshiek County, Iowa, 1840-1880."
1988
Mary Murphy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Class, Gender, and Leisure in the Urban West, 1917-1940."
1987
Nina Silber, UC Berkeley
Sherry Katz, UCLA, "Dual Commitments: Feminism, Socialism, and Women's Political Activism in California, 1890-1920"
Mary Ellen Odem, UC Berkeley
1986
Margaret Rose, University of California, Los Angeles, "Women in the United Farm Workers: A Study of Chicana and Mexicana Participation in a Labor Union, 1950-1980."
Graduate Student Paper Prize
1986
Judy Kutulas, UCLA, "Anna Louisa Strong and Eleanor Roosevelt: A Political Friendship."
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