CCWH Awards

CCWH gives four awards annually to promote scholarship
among women historians and in women's history.

CCWH Catherine Prelinger Award
CCWH/Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship
CCWH Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship
National History Day Prize in Women's History, Junior Division

The CCWH Catherine Prelinger Award is a $20,000 award to a scholar whose career has not followed a traditional path through secondary and higher education and whose work has contributed to women in the historical profession.

Past Prelinger Award Winner

Information and Application Form

The CCWH/Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a woman graduate student completing a dissertation in a history department.

Past CCWH/Berkshire Award Winners

Information and Application Form

The CCWH Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to an A.B.D. woman graduate student working on a historical dissertation, not necessarily in a history department. Applicants working on issues of race are particularly welcome.

Past Wells Award Winners

Information and Application Form

The National History Day Prize in Women's History, Junior Division goes to a pre-collegiate student participating in the National History Day competition.

National History Day website and application information

Past National History Day Award Winners

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