Western Association of Women Historians

Gita Chaudhuri Prize

The Gita Chaudhuri Prize is an annual prize that recognizes the best monograph about women in rural environments, from any era and any place in the world, published by a WAWH member. Award bylaws are available.

Previous Winners

2012
Nwando Achebe, The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe (Indiana University Press, 2011.

2011
Janet Casey, A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America (Oxford University Press, 2009).

2010
No award given.

2009
No award given.

 

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updated May 20, 2012

 

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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.

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