Western Association of Women Historians

2008 Conference

University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 15-18, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Merry Wiesner-Hanks
Keynote address: "Do Women Need the Renaissance? -- Periodization in Women's History"

Conference Program (PDF)

Award and Prize winners

  • Founders' Dissertation Fellowship
    Lindsay Holowach, University of California, Irvine
    "Women in Revolution: A Biogaphy of Rosalie Ducrollay Jullien"

  • Judith Lee Ridge Prize
    Marilyn Boxer, San Francisco State University, Emerita
    "Rethinking the Socialist Construction and International Career of the Concept 'Bourgeois Feminism'," American Historical Review 112, no. 1 (2007)

  • Frances Richardson Keller-Sierra Prize
    Jill Field, California State University, Fresno
    An Intimate Affair: Women, Lingerie, and Sexuality (University of California Press, 2007)

  • Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize
    The Barbara "Penny" Kanner prize was not awarded.

 

Updated June 4, 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.