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Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award

The Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award honors...

an historian whose book, book chapter, article, or verifiably published or posted electronic media illustrates the use of a specific set of primary sources (diaries, letters, interviews etc).  


Award: $400


Deadline: January 15, 2024 


Eligibility

  

  • Applicants must be current members of WAWH when they submit their application (current WAWH board members are not eligible to apply). 


  • The publication must be in English and have been published within the two years prior to the award year.


  • A published item can only be submitted once.

 

Submission Requirements

Applicants for the Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award must submit the following through the application portal (see green button below):


  • An award application form.


  • One copy of the entry for each committee member.


  • Statement that the applicant is a member of the WAWH.

  

Applicants are strongly encouraged to read about the award and the selection process in the Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award 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.

Francis Richardson Keller (left) and Barbara "Penny" Kanner (right), former WAWH president (1980-198

Application Opens November 1, 2023Donate to the Kanner Prize Fund

Previous Recipients

2023

Adria Imada, An Archive of Skin, an Archive of Kin: Diasability and Life-Making During Medical Incarceration (University of California Press, 2022)


Honorable Mention: Natalia Molina, A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican restaurant Nourished a Community (University of California Press, 2022)


2022 

Celeste R. Menchaca, “Staging Crossings: Policing Intimacy and Performing Respectability at the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1907-1917,” Pacific Historical Review (Winter 2020)


2021 

Erika Denise Edwards, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women and the Construction of a White Argentine Republic (University of Alabama, 2020)


Honorable mention: Mona L. Siegel, Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women’s Rights after the First World War (Columbia University Press, 2020)


2020 

Katherine M. Marino, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (UNC Press, 2019)


2019 

Miroslava Chávez García, Migrant Letter Writing Across the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands (The University of North Carolina Press, 2018)


2018 

Lynne Marie Getz, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers and Writers: A Family Journey through American History (University Press of Kansas, 2017)


2017 

Doreen Mattingly, A Feminist in the White House (Oxford University Press, 2016)


2016 

Sharony Green, Remember Me to Miss Louisa: Hidden Black-White Intimacies in Antebellum America (Northern Illinois University Press, 2015)


2015 

Kathleen B. Jones, Diving for Pearls: A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt (Thinking Women Books, 2013)


2014 

Andrea Germer, “Visible Culture, Invisible Politics: Propaganda in the Magazine NipponFujin, 1942-1945”


2013 

Lois W. Banner, MM–Personal: From the Private Archive of Marilyn Monroe (Harry N. Abrams, 2011)


2012 

Nwando Achebe, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011)


Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Heineman, Before Porn was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse (University of Chicago, 2011)


2011 

Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry, eds. Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources (University of Illinois Press, 2010)


2010 

Melissa Lambert Milewski, Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris (Utah State University Press, 2007)


2009 

No prize awarded.


2008 

No prize awarded.


2007 

Christine Bard, Annie Metz et Valérie Neveu (dir.), Guide des sources de l’histoire du feminisme (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006)


2006 

Ronald Loftus, Telling Lives: Women’s Self Writing in Modern Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004)


2005 

Allison Booth, How to Make it as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to Present (University of Chicago Press, 2004)


2004 

Lynn Hudson, The Making of Mammy Pleasant: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco (University of Illinois Press, 2002)


2003 

Sheridan Harvey, et al., Eds. American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States (Lebanon, NH: University of New England Press, 2002)


2002 

No prize awarded.


2001 

No prize awarded.


2000 

No prize awarded.


1999 

Karen J. Blair, Northwest Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources on the History of Oregon and Washington Women, 1787-1970 (Washington State University Press, 1997)


1998 

No prize awarded.


1997 Mary Lynn McCree, Nancy Slote, and Maree De Anguary, The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide (Indiana University Press, 1996) 


1996 

No prize awarded.


1995 

Candace Falk, Emma Goldman: A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources, (Chadwyck-Healy, 1995)


1994 

Yaffa Claire Draznin, “My Other Self”: The Letters of Olive Schreiner and Havelock Ellis, 1884-1920 (Peter Lang Publishing, 1992) 

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