Western Association of Women Historians

2008 annual award and prize information

Founders' Dissertation Fellowship

The Founders’ Dissertation Fellowship is an annual $1000 award to graduate students who show promise of significant contributions to historical scholarship. Funds from these Awards may be used for purposes directly or indirectly related to the dissertation, such as expenses for research, attendance of scholarly conferences, and the preparation of the dissertation. Applicants to the Founders’ Dissertation Fellowship must be current members of WAWH when they submit their application. Current WAWH board members are not eligible to apply. Applicants for the fellowship may apply for it more than once but may win only once. All recipients shall be graduate students in history who have been advanced to candidacy and are writing the dissertation at the time of application. They should expect the Ph.D. no earlier than December of the calendar year in which the award is made.

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For questions about the Founders Student Fellowship, please contact the current Chair.

Judith Lee Ridge Prize

The Judith Lee Ridge Prize is an annual $400 prize that recognizes the best article in the field of history published by a WAWH member. Applicants to the Ridge Prize must be current members of the WAWH when they submit their article. Current WAWH board members are not eligible to apply. The article must have been published in one of the two years preceding the prize year. Any articles may only be submitted once. All fields of history will be considered, and articles must be submitted with full scholarly apparatus.

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For questions about the Judith Lee Ridge Prize, please contact contact the current Chair.

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Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize

The Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize is an annual $800 prize that recognizes the best monograph in the field of history published by a WAWH member. Applicants to the Keller-Sierra Prize must be current members of WAWH when they submit their book. Current WAWH board members are not eligible to apply. The book must be a single-authored monograph based on original research. Anthologies and edited works are not eligible. The book must have been published in the year prior to the prize. Books may only be submitted for consideration once. Books cannot be submitted a second time as paperbacks or new editions. All fields of history are eligible.

2008 Keller-Sierra Prize Application (PDF)

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Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize

The Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award is an $500 annual award to honor distinguished achievement in two areas:

  1. scholarly bibliographic and historiographic guides to research focused on women and/or gender history and
  2. learned studies of autobiographical writings focused on women’s history and/or gender history published by a WAWH member.

The research guide award and the autobiography award will be given in alternate years, with submissions for each award considered for two-year intervals from the date of publication. Applicants to the Kanner Prize must be current members of WAWH when they submit their book. Current WAWH board members are not eligible to apply. The Kanner Award is intended to promote the practice of biblio-methodology.

The research guide award should reflect the essential tools of the historian’s craft (historical knowledge, bibliographic and research skills) as they have been used to construct a research guide focused on women and/or gender history; the prize is not intended for a standard library catalogue. Substantial published guides of less than book length (e.g. articles or relevant chapters from a book) will be considered.

The work submitted for the autobiography award should focus on women’s history and/or gender history. Critical or annotated editions of autobiographies should reflect the essential tools of the historian’s craft (historical knowledge, bibliographic and research skills). Learned studies of a person(s) autobiographical writings set in historical context will also be considered; the prize is not intended for autobiographical material presented without scholarly analysis. Entries may only be submitted for consideration once.

2008 Kanner Prize application

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For questions about the Kanner Prize, please contact the Current Chair.

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The deadline for the 2008 award applications has passed.

Each award has a required application.

Applicants who wish to have acknowledgment of receipt of their application materials should send them certified mail with a return receipt.

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updated February 25, 2008

 

 

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.