CCWH / Berks Graduate Student Fellowship

The CCWH / Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate student completing a dissertation in a history department. The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing.

The applicant must be a graduate student historian in a history department in a U.S. institution; must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application; may specialize in any field of history; may hold this award and others simultaneously; and need not attend the award ceremony to receive the award.

2020 CCWH Berks Award Application (MS Word download)

Committee email – CCWHBerksAward@theccwh.org

The annual deadline for the CCWH / Berks award is May 15.

NOTE – Applicants can only apply for one CCWH sponsored graduate student grant each year.

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Donations by CCWH members and other patrons support the CCWH / Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship. To make a one-time or recurring monthly donation by credit or debit card, please fill out our secure online Donation Form.

The Coordinating Council on Women in History is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The Coordinating Council on Women in History is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. All donations to the CCWH / Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Graduate Student Fellowship are tax-deductible.

CCWH/Berkshire Graduate Student Fellowship Award Recipients

2018 – Beth Ann Williams, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dissertation: “Women We Must Learn: Impacts of Faith and Mainline Churches on Gender, Well-being, and Empowerment in post-independence Kenya and Tanzania.”

2018 Honorable mention, Elizabeth A. Dillenburg, University of Minnesota
Dissertation: “Constructing “the Girlhood of Our Empire”: Education, Emigration, and Girls’ Imperial Networks in Britain, South Africa, and New Zealand, c. 1880-1920.”

2017
Lucia Carminati, University of Arizona
Dissertation: “Būr Saʿīd/Port Said, 1859-1922: Migration, Urbanization, and Empire”

Honorable Mention
Kelly Kean Sharp, University of California, Davis
Dissertation: “Farmers’ Plots to Backlot Stewpots: The Culinary Creolism of Urban Antebellum Charleston”

2016
Mary Klann, University of California, San Diego
Dissertation: “Citizens with Reservations: Race, Colonialism, and Native American Citizenship in the Mid-Twentieth Century American West”

Honorable Mention
Kathryn Lawton, State University of New York,Buffalo
Dissertation: “Deinstitutionalization and Disability Rights: Policy and Activism in New York State”

2015
Allyson Brantley, Yale University
Dissertation: “We’re Givin’ Up Our Beer for Sweeter Wine”: Boycotting Coors Beer, Coalition-Building, and the Politics of Non-Consumption, 1957-1987”
Hilary Buxton, Rutgers University
Dissertation: “Disabled Empire: Race, Rehabilitation, and the Politics of Healing Non-white Colonial Veterans, 1914-1940”

2014 – Aiala Levy, University of Chicago
Dissertation: “Forging an Urban Public: Theaters, Audiences, and the City in São Paulo, Brazil, 1854-1930”

2013
Courtney Wiersema
Dissertation: “All Consuming Nature: Provisioning and Inequality in Industrial Chicago, 1833-1893”
Cassia Roth
Dissertation: “Criminalized Births: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1890-1940”
Honorable Mention:  Kristen McCabe Lashua
Dissertation: “Children at the Birth of Empire, c. 1600-1760”

2012 – Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, New York University
Dissertation: “This is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Construction of the New Woman Imagery Through Fashion and the Political Culture of American Feminism 1890-1940”

2011 – Jennifer Lambe, Yale University
Dissertation: “Baptism by Fire: The Making and Remaking of Madness in Cuba, 1899–1980”

2010 – Lisa Arrastia, University  of Minnesota
Dissertation: “The Racial Destinations of Dawes:  Bureaucratic Violence and Cultural Citizenship”

2009 – Deirdre Clemente, Carnegie Mellon University
Dissertation: “From Snobs to Slobs: Collegiate Culture and the Transformation of the American Wardrobe, 1900-1960”

2008 – Lindsay Moore, George Washington University

2007 – Amanda Rago, University of Arizona

2006 – Lyndsey Rago, University of Delaware

2005 – Dorothea Browder, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2004 – Abigail Jackson, University of Chicago

2003 – Tiffany A. Thomas-Woodard, University of New Mexico

2002 – Kristin McGuire, University of Michigan

2001 – Sabine Marx, Carnegie Mellon University

2000 – Lynn Sacco, University of Southern California

1999 – Valinda Littlefield, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

1998 – Crystal Feimster, Princeton University

1997 – Marsha Weisiger, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1996 – Linda Nueva Espana-Maram, University of California, Los Angeles

1995 – Victoria Wolcott, University of Michigan

1994 – Cathy Skidmore Hess, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1992 – Sujata C. Bhatt, University of Michigan

1991 – Glenda Gilmore, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill