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.
2021 CCWH Berks Award Application(MS Word download)
Committee email – CCWHBerksAward@theccwh.org
The 2021 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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2020 CCWH/Berkshire Graduate Student Fellowship Award Recipient
Pratichi Priyambada, University of California, Irvine
Dissertation: “Slaves, Prostitutes and Patronage: Dancers in Colonial Western India.”
2019 CCWH/Berkshire Graduate Student Fellowship Award Recipient
Maria Esther Hammack, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation: “South of Slavery: Enslaved and Free Black Movement across a Global Frontier, Mexico, the United States, and Beyond, 1790- 1868.”
Previous 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.”
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, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation: “All Consuming Nature: Provisioning and Inequality in Industrial Chicago, 1833-1893”
Cassia Roth, University of California, Los Angeles
Dissertation: “Criminalized Births: Reproduction, Medicine, and the Law in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1890-1940”
Honorable Mention: Kristen McCabe Lashua, University of Virginia
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