Western Association of Women Historians
Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize award winners
The Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award is an 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 are given in alternate years, with submissions for each award considered for two-year intervals from the date of publication.
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2007
Christine Bard, Annie Metz et Valérie Neveu (dir.), Guide des sources de l'histoire du feminisme. (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2006)
Karen Offen (above) and Helen Chenut accept the award for Bard, Metz, and Neveu from Maria Elena Raymond, Barbara “Penny” Kanner Award chair
2006
Ronald Loftus, Telling Lives: Women’s Self Writing in Modern Japan. (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2004).
2005
Allison Booth, How to Make it as a Woman: Collective Biographical History from Victoria to Present. (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
2004
Lynn Hudson, The Making of Mammy Pleasant: A Black Entrepreneur in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco. University of Illinois Press, 2002.
2003
Sheridan Harvey, et al., Eds. American Women: A Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States, (Lebanon, NH: University of New England Press, 2002).
2002
No Award Given.
2001
No Award Given.
2000
No Award Given.
1999
Karen J. Blair, Northwest Women: An Annotated Bibliography of Sources on the History of Oregon and Washington Women, 1787-1970, (Washington State University Press, 1997).
1998
No Award Given.
1997
Mary Lynn McCree, Nancy Slote, and Maree De Anguary, The Jane Addams Papers: A Comprehensive Guide. (Indiana University Press, 1996). [see: Swarthmore College's Jane Addams Collection]
1996
No Award Given.
1995
Candace Falk, Emma Goldman: A Guide to Her Life and Documentary Sources. (Chadwyck-Healy, 1995). [Full text online]
1994
Yaffa Claire Draznin, "My Other Self": The Letters of Olive Schreiner and Havelock Ellis, 1884-1920. (Peter Lang Publishing, 1992.)
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updated May 31, 2007