Western Association of Women Historians

Welcome to the online home of the Western Association of Women Historians. Learn about the WAWH: our conferences and awards, hard working Executive Board members, newsletter, regional and national ties, constitution and bylaws, our conference and award deadlines, and, naturally, our history. Read about opportunities and interesting resources for women historians. Become a WAWH member!

News

2010 WAWH Prize Winners

Congratulations to the 2010 winners

  • 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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The Western Association of Women Historians was founded in 1969 to promote the interests of women historians both in academic settings and in the field of history generally.

Drawing scholars from the Western states, the WAWH is the largest of the regional women's historical associations in the U.S.

The WAWH encourages the participation of academic historians and independent scholars, and welcomes literary scholars and art, theater, and film specialists.