AHA Award Recipients
Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History
Named in memory of Joan Kelly, this prize is awarded annually for the book in women's history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928–82). The prize was established by the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession and the Conference Group on Women's History in 1983, to be administered by the American Historical Association and carries a cash award of $1,000.
Submissions can deal with any chronological period, any geographical location, or any area of feminist theory that incorporates a historical perspective. Books should demonstrate originality of research, creativity of insight, graceful stylistic presentation, skilful use of analysis, and a recognition of the important role of sex and gender in the historical process. The interrelationship between women and the historical process should be addressed.
2011 |
Leslie J. Reagan (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America (Univ. of California Press) |
2010 |
Susan E. Klepp, Temple Univ., Revolutionary Conceptions: Women, Fertility, and Family Limitation in America, 1760–1820 (Univ. of North Carolina Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture) |
2009 |
Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford University Press) |
2008 |
Kathy Davis, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels across Borders (Duke Univ. Press, October 2007) |
2007 |
Mrinalini Sinha, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire, Duke Univ. Press, 2006 |
| 2006 | Dorothy Ko, Barnard College, Columbia University, Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (University of California Press, 2005) |
2005 |
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (University of California Press, 2005) |
2004 |
Laura Gowing, King's College London, Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeeth-Century England (Yale University Press, 2003) |
2003 |
Barbara Ransby, University of Illinois at Chicago, Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina Press, 2003) |
2002 |
Alice Kessler-Harris, Columbia University, In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Oxford University Press, 2001) |
2001 |
Laura Wexler, Yale University, Tender Violence: Domestic Visions in an Age of U.S. Imperialism (U. of North Carolina Press, 2000) |
2000 |
Elizabeth Thompson, U. of Virginia, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (Columbia Univ. Press, 2000) |
1999 |
Linda K. Kerber, U. of Iowa, No Constitutional Right to be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship (Hill and Wang, 1998) |
1998 |
Ellen Carol DuBois, U. of California at Los Angeles, Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage (Yale U. Press, 1997) |
1997 |
Gail Hershatter, Merrill College, U. of California at Santa Cruz, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai (U. of California Press, 1997) |
1996 |
Ann B. Shteir, York U., Cultivating Women, Cultivating Science: Flora’s Daughters and Botany in England, 1760–1860 (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1996) |
1995 |
Mary Lowenthal Felstiner, San Francisco State U., To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era(Harper Collins, 1994) |
1994 |
Mary Louise Roberts, Stanford U., Civilization Without Sexes; Reconstructing, Gender in Postwar France, 1917–1927 (U. of Chicago Press, 1994) |
1993 |
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard U., Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920 (Harvard U. Press, 1993) |
1992 |
Victoria de Grazia, Rutgers U., How Fascism Ruled Women. Italy, 1922–1945 (U. of California Press, 1992) |
1991 |
Susan Glenn, U. of Texas, Austin, Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation |
1990 |
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, U. of New Hampshire, A Midwife’s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785–1812 (Alfred A. Knopf) |
1989 |
Joan Wallach Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia U. Press) |
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Mary H. Blewett, U. of Lowell, Women and Work: Class, Gender, and Protest in the New England Shoe Factory, 1780–1910 (U. of Illinois Press) |
1988 |
Linda Gordon, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880–1960 (New York: Viking Press) |
1987 |
Ruth Milkman, Graduate Center, CUNY, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex During World War II (Champaign: Univ. of Illinois Press) |
1986 |
Gerda Lerner, U. of Wisconsin, Madison, The Creation of Patriarchy (Oxford U. Press) |
1985 |
Claire G. Moses, U. of Maryland, French Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (State U. of New York Press) |
1984 |
Rosalind Petchesky, Ramapo College, Abortion and Woman’s Choice: The State, Sexuality, and the Conditions of Reproduction Freedom (Northeastern U.P.) |
