Mary Nickliss Prize Winners

2022

Jennifer L. Morgan, New York University, Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic (Duke University Press)

2021

Thavolia Glymph, Duke University, The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (The University of North Carolina Press)

2020

Saidiya Hartman, Columbia University, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals (W. W. Norton & Company)

Honorable Mention: Katherine M. Marino, University of California, Los Angeles, Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement (The University of North Carolina Press)

2019

Colleen McDannell, University of Utah, Sister Saints: Mormon Women since the End of Polygamy (Oxford University Press)

2018

Tera W. Hunter, Princeton University, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (Harvard University Press)

2017

Katherine Turk, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace (University of Pennsylvania Press)

2016

Cassandra Alexis Good, University of Mary Washington, Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic (Oxford University Press)

2015

Lisa Marguerite Tetrault, Carnegie Mellon University, The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848–1898 (The University of North Carolina Press)