Western Association of Women Historians
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News
2010 WAWH Prize Winners
Congratulations to the 2010 winners
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Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize
Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, "Performing Interracial Abolition: The Women and Children of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum in the Marketplace." -
Founders' Dissertation Fellowship
Elaine M. Nelson, University of New Mexico, "Dreams and Dust in the Black Hills: Contested Identities in America’s 'Land of Promise.'" -
Judith Lee Ridge Article Prize
Leandra Zarnow, "Braving Jim Crow to Save Willie McGee: Bella Abzug, the Legal Left, and Civil Rights Innovation, 1948-1951," Law and Social Inquiry, 33, no. 4 (Fall 2008). -
Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize
Melissa Lambert Milewski, Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris (Utah State University Press, 2007). -
Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize
Rebecca M. Kluchin, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive Rights in America, 1950-1980 (Rutgers University Press, 2009).
2011 WAWH Conference Call for Papers
The call for papers for the 2011 WAWH Conference is now posted. The conference will be April 7-9, 2011, at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
Learn about other conference and awards and professional opportunities of interest.
updated July 6, 2010
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