CCWH Berkshire Conference Award Winners

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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.

2023

Linda Ulbrich, University of California, Santa Cruz

Dissertation: “Yesterday was a difficult day to be a sister: An Emotional History of First World War Nursing”

2022

Victoria Nachreiner, University of Buffalo

Dissertation: “A Marriage of Aesthetics: Afropolitan Consumption, Bodily Practices, and Cis-Atlantic Gendering in Old Calabar, 1840-1940”

Honorable Mention: Annabel LaBrecque (University of California, Berkeley), “Salt of the Earth: Deep Histories of the North American Interior”

2021

Shelby M. Sinclair, Princeton University

Dissertation: “‘Gason konn bouke, men pa fanm’: Black Women Workers and the United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934.”

2020

Pratichi Priyambada, University of California, Irvine

Dissertation: “Slaves, Prostitutes and Patronage: Dancers in Colonial Western India.”

2019

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.”

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