Call for Submissions: Sandra Trudgen Dawson Award

The CCWH’s newest award, the Sandra Trudgen Dawson Prize, honors a gifted and generous colleague whom we lost in 2024. Although she never enjoyed the security of a tenured or tenure-track position, she shone as a prolific scholar, teacher, collaborator, and volunteer and administrator of numerous organizations that keep us connected as historians, including the Western Association of Women Historians, the Berkshire’s Conference of Women’s History, and the CCWH, where she served as the Executive Director from 2010 to 2020. Indeed, Sandra personally connected a huge network of women’s and gender scholars from around the world.

In the spirit of Sandra’s pragmatism and dedication to concrete aid to anyone who asked, we envision this award as furthering work in any of the areas in which Sandra excelled—research and scholarship (e.g., travel to collections), teaching (e.g., developing curricula), or service to history organizations that promote connection and collaboration (e.g., organizing conferences, establishing workshops). The prize can thus be used for travel costs, research materials, care labor, or any other expense that will enable recipients to carry Sandra’s legacy into the future.

The $500 award is open to any CCWH member with a terminal degree whose career has not followed the traditional tenure-track path. Applications should include:

• CV
• 2-page proposal outlining how the funds will be spent.
• A one-page explanation of why this experience would be helpful/what they expect to achieve through it
• An optional statement in which they can indicate if they belong to a “priority” group:

Priority Group:

• People who conduct a substantial amount of volunteer work in professional organisations
• People with high teaching and administrative loads
• People who lack a conducive research and mentoring environment

Applications are due June 30, 2025. Email DawsonAward@theccwh.org.