the best single-authored, original research based monograph about women in rural or environmental history, from any era and any place in the world.
The committee is especially interested in topics related to rural women, women and education, community development, activism, and environmental history.
The 2024 award cycle has passed. See below for the 2024 and previous years' award winners.
Award: $1000
Open for submissions: October 15, 2024
Deadline: January 5, 2025
Eligibility
Applicants for the Gita Chaudhuri Prize:
Submission Requirements
Applicants for the Gita Chaudhuri Prize must submit the following through the application portal (see green button below):
Applicants are strongly encouraged to read about the award and the selection process in the Gita Chaudhuri Prize bylaws.
Disqualification: Applicants who do not meet the deadline for submission or include all the required materials will not be considered.
Questions? Ask the committee chairperson Arunima Datta.
2012 prize-winner Nwando Achebe with the Chaudhuri family.
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2024
Catherine McNeur, Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science (Basic Books, 2023)
2023
No prize awarded.
2022
Arunima Datta, Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaysia (Cambridge, 2021)
2021
Laura J. Arata, Sara Bickford, The Montana Vigilantes, and the Tourism of Decline, 1870-1930 (University of Oklahoma, 2020)
2020
Cynthia Prescott, Pioneer Mother Monuments: Constructing Cultural Memory (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019)
2019
Sara Egge, Woman Suffrage and Citizenship in the Midwest, 1870–1920 (University of Iowa Press, 2018)
2018
No prize awarded.
2017
Sarah Carter, Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2016)
Honorable Mention: Veronica Castillo-Muñoz, The Other California: Land, Identity, and Politics on the Mexican Borderlands (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017)
2016
Karen Hansen, Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890 – 1930 (Oxford University Press, 2013)
2015
Grey Osterud, Putting the Barn before the House: Women and Family in Early Twentieth-Century New York (Cornell University Press, 2012)
2014
No prize awarded.
2013
No prize awarded.
2012
Nwando Achebe, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011)
2011
Janet Casey, A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America (Oxford University Press, 2009)
2010
No prize awarded.
2009
No prize awarded.
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