CCWH Awards

CCWH Awards

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The CCWH offers six awards to help reach its organizational goals. For a full award description, current application form and information about previous award recipients, please click the award name about each award.

Catherine Prelinger Award – 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.

CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship – a $1,000 award to a graduate student completing a dissertation in a history department.

Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship – a $1000  annual award given to a graduate student working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender, not necessarily in a history department.

Carol Gold Article Award – a $500 prize given to the best article published in a peer-reviewed journal in the year prior to the award year.

Nupur Chaudhuri First Article Prize –  a $1,000 award for the first article published in a referred journal by a CCWH member.

Rachel Fuchs Memorial Award for Excellence in Mentorship and Service to Women/LGBTQ in the Profession – annual award for service and mentorship.

Additional Opportunities

Joan Kelly Memorial Prize (American Historical Association)- a $1,000 annual award for the book in women’s history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly (1928-1982).

Peggy Pascoe Memorial Fund (University of Oregon) – The CCWH assists funding for the Peggy Pascoe Memorial Fund to support graduate student research at the University of Oregon.

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Donations by CCWH members and other patrons support CCWH awards and initiatives.

The Coordinating Council on Women in History is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. (EIN – 48-1071194) All award donations are tax-deductible.