Catherine Prelinger Award Winners

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The CCWH Catherine Prelinger Award is a scholarship of $20,000 which will be awarded to a scholar of excellence. This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study, moving from completed secondary, to undergraduate, then graduate degrees, followed by a tenure-track faculty position.

These funds were originally granted to CCWH by an anonymous donor in honor of the many years of work this organization has devoted to exploring women’s history, encouraging opportunities for women in the historical profession, and in educating young women to pursue careers in the historical profession. This award is intended to enhance the ability of the recipient to carry on these CCWH traditions through contributions to women in history, either through scholarly or professional activity.

Eligible applicants must be members of CCWH and must hold either A.B.D. status or the Ph.D. at the time of application. They shall be actively engaged in scholarship that is historical in nature, although the degree may be in related fields. Applicants will show evidence of a nontraditional professional career and describe a project that will further enhance women’s roles in history. They should also demonstrate their contributions to women in the historical profession and/or service on behalf of women. The Prelinger Committee encourages applications from independent and non-academic scholars.

Committee email: PrelingerAward@theccwh.org

2023

Heather Butina-Sutton, “Hucksters, Hawkers, and Ganhadeiras: How Black Women Shaped Culture and Capitalism in the Atlantic World, 1780-1888.”

Honorable Mention: Katie Von Wald, “Chasing Auras: The Afterlives of 19th Century Hysterical Pathologies on Feminine Subjects and Unruly Queer Futures”

2022

Lina Homberger Cordia, “Invisible Futboleras: Gender, Nationalism, and Sport in Mexico and the World in the Early 1970s.”

2021

Michelle Daniel Jones, “Creative Liberation Strategies in Prison: The Alabama Arts and Education Project.”

2020

Aimee Loiselle, “Creating Norma Rae: Southern Labor Activists and Puerto Rican Needleworkers Lost in Reagan’s America.”

Honorable Mention: Renae Sullivan, “Marital Educator or Development Envoy: Transnational Home Scientists in India, 1949-1972.”

2019

Jessica Waggoner, “Crip Activisms: Race, Gender, and the Roots of Disability Consciousness, 1900-1950.”

Honorable Mention: Heidi Feldman, “Black, Woman, and Latin American: Rhythm and Mobility in the International Career of Victoria Santa Cruz.”

2018

Lora Michelle Key, “We’re All Americans Now: How Mexican American Identity, Culture, and Gender: Forged Civil Rights in World War II and Beyond.”

Honorable Mentions:

• JoAnn LoSavio, “Modern Mandala: A Comparative Transnational History of Southeast Asian Women from Burma, Malaya and Thailand in Great Britain and the United States, 1950-1970.”
• Ozlem Ezer, “Syrian Women in Transition in the Global North After 2011: An Oral History Project Regarding the Black W/Hole of a Major Humanitarian Crisis”

2017

Charlene Fletcher, “Confined Femininity: Race, Gender, and Incarceration in Kentucky, 1865-1920.”

Honorable Mentions:

• Inez Talamantes
• Heather Sinclair

2016

Frances Reanae McNeal, “African Native American Women’s Rhetorics of Survivance: Decolonization and Social Transformation”

Honorable Mentions

• Courtney Campbell
• Lara Freidenfelds
• Lily Anne Welty Tamai

2015

Annette Marie Rodríguez, “The Lynching of Mexicans in the United States: Making Visible U.S. Terrorscapes”

2014

Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy, “Following the Trees Home: Anishinaabe Ikawewag Iyaawag Iskigamiziganing (Anishinaabe Women at the Boiling Place).”

2013

Donna Sinclair, “Multicultural Mandates: Transforming the U.S.D.A. Forest Service in the Civil Rights Era.”

2012

Julie R. Enszer, THE WHOLE NAKED TRUTH OF OUR LIVES: Lesbian Print Culture in the United States from 1969-1989

2011

LaShonda Mims, Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists:  Lesbians, Identity, and the New South

2010

Stephanie Moore, Dangerous Races: “Yellow Peril” in Latin America

2009

Grey Osterud, Putting the Barn Before the House: The Lives of Rural Women in Twentieth Century New York (Cornell University Press, 2012). 

2008

Midori Green,“Sec’s Appeal: The Secretary in American Popular Culture, 1900-1964.”

2007

Ann Marie Wilson, “Taking Liberties Abroad: Americans and International Humanitarianism, 1880-1920.”

2006

Linda Rupert, “Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic World.”

2005

Catherine Fosl

2004

Barbara Ransby

2003

Linda Reese

2002

Lisa Di Caprio

2001

Pamela Stewart

2000

Rickie Solinger

1999

Kathleen Sheldon

1998

Fran Buss