2025
Magdalene McGheer Zier, Stanford University, "Women at the Bar: Forging Feminism through Law and Liquor, 1873-1973"
Honorable Mention: Abby M. Gibson, University of Southern California, "Fearful Land"
2024
Daylin López, Tulane University, "'Lending Themselves to be Objects of Instruction': Gender, Class, and Medicine in Havana's Charity Hospitals, 1840-1890"
Honorable Mention: Sarah Lee, UC Berkeley, "To Control the Law of Fresno: Police, Race, and Space in California's Central Valley"
2023
Kelsey Jennings Roggensack, Cornell University, “Homeward Crossing: African American Migrations to the American West, 1840-1930”
Honorable Mention: Carolyn Zola, Stanford University, “Public Women: Urban Provisioners in Nineteenth-Century America”
2022
Natalie Santizo, UCLA, “Critical Latinx Foodways: Racial Formation, Regional Identity, and Placemaking in the San Gabriel Valley, 1900-1968”
Honorable Mention: Sarah Chang, UC Santa Cruz, “The Life and Death of the Socialist Factory: Spatial Politics and Factory Life in China, 1958 to the present”
2021
Justine Modica, Stanford University, “Who Cares: Constructing the Child Care Workforce”
2020
Alana de Hinojosa, UCLA, “Unruly Terrains of Struggle: The Contested and Unresolved Terrains of of the Chamizal Land Dispute”
2019
Kimberly Killion, UC Berkeley, “The Chemist at the Table: Nutrition Science and the Politics of Food in the United States, 1885-1930”
Honorable Mention: Jaclyn Schultz, UC Santa Cruz, “Learning the Values of a Dollar: Childhood and Cultures of Economy in the U.S., 1825–1900”
Honorable Mention: Jelena Golubovic, Simon Fraser University “Lowered Voices: An Oral History of Serb Women in the Siege of Sarajevo”
2018
Trish Kahle, University of Chicago, “The Graveyard Shift: Democracy in an Age of Energy Crisis, 1963–1981”
2017
Sarah Mellors, UC Irvine “From Vinegar and Cotton Balls to Diaphragms and Vasectomies: Birth Control in Republican and Mao-Era China”
2016
Jennifer Robin Terry, UC Berkeley, “Making Believe: The Business of Denying Child Labor in America”
2015
Katelyn Aguilar, University of Connecticut, “A ‘Cane’ Thing?’ Football, Race, and American Conservatism”
2014
Brianna Theobald, Arizona State University, “The Simplest Rules of Motherhood’: Settler Colonialism and theRegulation of American Indian Reproduction, 1910-1976”
2013
Nikki Malain,UC Santa Barbara, “The Pope and the Pirates: Genoese Piracy, Diplomacy, and Trade in the High Middle Ages”
2012
Katie Jarvis, University of Wisconsin, Madison “Politics in the Marketplace: The Popular Activism and Cultural Representation of the Dames des Halles during the French Revolution”
2011
Sarah Keyes, University of Southern California, “Beyond the Plains: Migration to the Pacific and the Reconfiguration of America, 1820-1900”
2010
Elaine M. Nelson, University of New Mexico, “Dreams and Dust in the Black Hills: Contested Identities in America’s ‘Land of Promise”
2009
Robin Sager, Rice University, “Marital Cruelty in Antebellum Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin”
2008
Lindsay Holowach, UC 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, UC 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, UC 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, University of Southern California, “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, UCLA, “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, UC Berkeley, “Politics and Patriotism: The Making of an American Identity, 1870s to 1920s”
1991
Anne Marie Poole, UCLA, “Madonnas or Magdalenes?: Saint-Simonian Women, Paris, 1832-1834”
1990
Lois Huneycutt, UC 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”
Honorable Mention: 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, “The Romance of Reunion: Northern Images of the South, 1865-1900”
Honorable Mention: Sherry Katz, UCLA “Dual Commitments: Feminism, Socialism, and Women’s Political Activism in California, 1890-1920”
Honorable Mention: Mary Ellen Odem, UC Berkeley, “Delinquent Daughters: The Sexual Regulaiton of Female Minors in the United States, 1880-1920”
1986
Margaret Rose, UCLA, “Women in the United Farm Workers: A Study of Chicana and Mexicana Participation in a Labor Union, 1950-1980”
