# Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize

The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prizes are awarded each year by the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Nominees must be women normally resident in North America who have published a book in the previous year. One prize recognizes an author's first book that "deals substantially with the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality", and the other prize recognizes "a first book in any field of history that does not focus on the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality."

## Winners

| Year | Winner | Title |
| 1990 | Jo Burr Margadant | Madame le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic |
| 1990 | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich | The Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1785-1812 |
| 1991 | Nancy Leys Stepan | "The Hour of Eugenics": Race, Gender and Nation in Latin America |
| 1991 | Marilyn B. Young | The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1990 |
| 1992 | Phyllis Mack | Visionary Women: Ecstatic Prophecy in 17th Century England |
| 1993 | Wendy Z. Goldman | Women, the State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 |
| 1993 | Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn | Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 |
| 1994 | Linda Gordon | Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare |
| 1995 | Kathryn Kish Sklar | Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Women's Political Culture, 1830-1900 |
| 1996 | Isabel V. Hull | Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700-1815 |
| 1996 Honorable Mention | Kathleen M. Brown | Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia |
| 1997 | Alice Conklin | A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 |
| 1998 | Jill Lepore | Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity |
| 1999 | Ada Ferrer | Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation and Revolution 1868-1898 |
| 2000 | Karin Alejandra Rosemblatt | Gendered Compromises: Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950 |
| 2000 | Elizabeth Thompson | Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege, and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon |
| 2001 | Clare Haru Crowston | Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 |
| 2002 | Patricia M. Pelley | Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past |
| 2002 | Samantha Power | "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide |
| 2003 | Nancy Appelbaum | Muddied Waters: Race, Region, and Local History in Colombia, 1846-1948 |
| 2004 | Mae M. Ngai | Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America |
| 2004 | Ruth Rogaski | Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China |
| 2005 | Lisa Forman Cody | Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of the Eighteenth Century Britons |
| 2006 | Sandra Bardsley | Venomous Tongues: Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England |
| 2006 | Maureen Fitzgerald | Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York's Welfare System, 1830-1920 |
| 2007 | Juliana Barr | Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands |
| 2008 | Weijing Lu | True to Her Word: The Faithful Maiden Cult in Late Imperial China |
| 2009 | Hannah Rosen | Terror in the Heart of Freedom: Citizenship, Sexual Violence, and the Meaning of Race in the Postemancipation South |
| 2010 | Christina Snyder | Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America |
| 2010 Honorable Mention | Jennifer Guglielmo | Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 |
| 2011 | Kate Haulman | The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America |
| 2011 | Kate Ramsey | The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti |
| 2012 | Adria L. Imada | Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire |
| 2012 | Françoise Hamlin | Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta after WW II |
| 2013 | Camille Robcis | The Law of Kinship: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in Twentieth-Century France |
| 2013 | Teresa Barnett | Sacred Relics: Pieces of the Past in Nineteenth-Century America |
| 2014 | Susanah Shaw Romney | New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America |
| 2014 | Tatiana Seijas | Asian Slaves in Colonial Mexico: from Chinos to Indians |
| 2015 | Talitha L. LeFlouria | Chained in Silence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South |
| 2015 | Vanessa Ogle | The Global Transformation of Time, 1870-1950 |
| 2016 | Marisa J. Fuentes | Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive |
| 2016 | Anya Zilberstein | A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America |
| 2017 | Sasha Turner | Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica |
| 2017 | S. Debora Kang | The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 |
| 2018 | Keisha N. Blain | Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom |
| 2018 | Christine M. DeLucia | Memory Lands: King Philip's War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast |
| 2019 | Lauren Jae Gutterman | Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage |
| 2019 | Sarah A. Seo | Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom |
| 2020 | Gina A. Tam | Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960 |
| 2020 | Alice L. Baumgartner | South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War |
| 2020 | Jessica Marie Johnson | Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World |
| 2021 | Sara T. Damiano | To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England Cities |
| 2021 | Shahla Hussain | Kashmir in the Aftermath of Partition |
| 2022 | Christina Ramos | Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment |
| 2022 | Brooke M. Bauer | Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840 |