Western Association of Women Historians
Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize
The Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize is an annual prize that recognizes the best monograph in the field of history published by a WAWH member. Award bylaws are available.
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Previous Winners
2012
Edith Sheffer, Burned Bridge: How East And West Germans Made The Iron Curtain (Oxford University Press, 2011).
2011
Sarah Curtis, Civilizing Habits: Women Missionaries and the Revival of the French Empire, (Oxford University Press, 2010).
2010
Rebecca M. Kluchin, Fit to Be Tied: Sterilization and Reproductive
Rights in America, 1950-1980, (Rutgers University Press, 2009).
2009
Rachel Fuchs, Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France, (Johns Hopkins, 2008).
2008
Jill Fields, An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality, (University of California Press, 2007).
2007
Linda Nash, Inescapable Ecologies: A History of
Environment, Disease, and Knowledge, (University of California
Press, 2006).
2006
Lisa Forman Cody, Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
2005
Irene Guenther, Nazi 'Chic'?: Fashioning Women in the Third Reich, Berg Publishers, 2004.
2004
Tanis C. Thorne, The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal Over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune, Oxford University Press, October 2003.
2003
Lucy G. Barber, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003).
2002
Patricia A. Schechter, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and American Reform, 1880-1930, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
2001
Jessica Weiss, To Have and To Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change, (University of Chicago Press).
2000
Margaret D. Jacobs, Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879-1934, (University of Nebraska Press, 1999).
Diane Wolfthal, Images of Rape: The “Heroic” Tradition and its Alternatives, (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
1999
Nina Rattner Gelbart, The King's Midwife: A History and Mystery of Madam du Coudray, (University of California Press, 1998).
1998
Pamela Beth Radcliffe, From Mobilization to Civil War: The Politics of Polarization in the Spanish City Gijón 1900-1937, (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
1997
Estelle B. Freedman, Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition, (University of Chicago Press, 1996).
1996
Susan L. Smith, Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Black Women's Health Activism in America, 1890-1950, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).
1995
Angel Kwolek-Folland, Engendering Business: Men and Women in the Corporate Office, 1870-1930, (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
1994
Marilynn S. Johnson, The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II, (University of California Press, 1994).
1993
Glenna Matthews, The Rise of Public Woman: Woman's Power and Woman's Place in the United States, 1630-1970, (Oxford University Press, 1992).
1992
Francesca Miller, Latin American Women and the Search for Social Justice, (University Press of New England), 1991. [JSTOR review]
1991
Mary Elizabeth Perry, Gender and Disorder in Early Modern Seville, (Princeton University Press, 1990).
1990
Karen Lystra, Searching the Heart: Women, Men, and Romantic Love in Nineteenth-Century America, (Oxford University Press, 1989).
1989
Margaret Washington Creel, 'A Peculiar People:' Slave Religion and Community Culture Among the Gullah, (New York University Press, 1988). [JSTOR review]
1988
Nina Rattner Gelbart, Feminine and Opposition Journalism in Old Regime France: Le Journal des Dames, (University of California Press, 1987). [JSTOR review]
1987
Joan M. Jensen, Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women, 1750-1850, (Yale University Press, 1986).
Dolores E. Janiewski, Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community, (Temple University Press, 1986).
1986
No Prize Awarded.
1985
Michelle Root-Bernstein, Boulevard Theater and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century Paris, (UMI Research Press, 1984). [JSTOR review]
1984
Sharon L. Sievers, Flowers in Salt: The Beginning of Feminist Consciousness in Modern Japan, (Stanford University Press, 1983). [JSTOR review]
1983
Susan Strasser, Never Done: A History of American Housework, (Pantheon Books, 1982). [2000 Owl Books edition on Amazon]
1982
Mary Elizabeth Perry, Crime and Society in Early Modern Seville, (University Press of New England, 1980). [Full text, Library of Iberian Resources Online]
1981
Erna Olafson Hellerstein, Leslie Parker Hume, and Karen M. Offen, Victorian Women: A Documentary Account of Women's Lives in Nineteenth Century England, France, and the United States, (Stanford University Press, 1981). [on Amazon]
Read more about the Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize
Reception at the 2006 Conference for Keller-Sierra Prize winners
updated May 12, 2012