Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize

Western Association of Women Historians

The Graduate Student Conference Paper Prize is an annual prize that recognizes the outstanding paper presented by a graduate student at the annual WAWH conference. Award bylaws are available.

Previous Winners

2012
Carrie Adkins, University of Oregon, “Gentlemen’s Daughters,” “Womanly Women,” and “Hen Medics”: Class, Gender, and Medical Education in the United States, 1870-1920."

2011
Jennifer Robin Terry, University of California, Berkeley, "Evening the Score: Rebellion, Ingenuity, and Masculinity Manifested through Illicit Pregnancy."

2010
Sarah Levine-Gronningsater, University of Chicago, "Performing Interracial Abolition: The Women and Children of the New York Colored Orphan Asylum in the Marketplace."

2009
Brenda Frink, Stanford University, “A Barren School Yard Can Produce Naught Save a Barren-Hearted Pupil: Arbor Day in Progressive Era California."

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updated May 12, 2012

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.