Lerner-Scott Prize Winners

2022

Tiffany Jasmin González, James Madison University (dissertation completed at Texas A&M University under the direction of Sonia Hernández), "Representation for a Change: Women in Government and the Chicana/o Civil Rights Movement in Texas"

Honorable Mention: Charlene J. Fletcher, Conner Prairie Museum (dissertation completed at Indiana University, Bloomington; advisers Amrita Myers, Chair, Alex Lichtenstein, Cara Caddoo, Karen Inoyue), "Confined Femininity: Race, Gender, and Incarceration in Kentucky, 1865–1920"

2021

Michaela Kleber, Northwestern University (dissertation completed at the College of William & Mary under the direction of Dr. Joshua Piker with Dr. Brett Rushforth, Dr. Leisa Meyer, Dr. Hannah Rosen, and Dr. Guillaume Aubert), "Gendered Societies, Sexual Empires: French Colonization among the Illinois"

2020

Aimee Loiselle, Smith College (dissertation completed at the University of Connecticut, under the direction of Micki McElya with Christopher Clark and Peter Baldwin)  “Creating Norma Rae: The Erasure of Puerto Rican Needleworkers and Southern Labor Activists in a Neoliberal Icon”

2019

Julia Bowes, The University of Hong Kong, “Invading the Home: Children, State Power, and the Gendered Origins of Modern Conservatism, 1865–1933” [dissertation completed at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, under the direction of Jennifer Mittelstadt and Ann Fabian]

2018

Alexandra J. Finley, Mississippi State University, “Blood Money: Sex, Family, and Finance in the Antebellum Slave Trade” [College of William & Mary dissertation, with advisers Scott Nelson (chair), Cindy Hahamovitch, Hannah Rosen, and Henry Louis Gates Jr.]

2017

Ava Purkiss, University of Michigan, "'Mind, Soul, Body, and Race': Black Women's Purposeful Exercise in the Age of Physical Culture, 1900–1939" [dissertation completed at the University of Texas, Austin (History) under the direction of Professors Tiffany Gill and Daina Ramey Berry]

Honorable Mention: Jenna Healey, Yale University, "Sooner or Later: Age, Pregnancy, and the Reproductive Revolution in Late Twentieth-Century America" [dissertation completed at Yale
University, directed by Professor Naomi Rogers]

2016

Susan Hanket Brandt, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, "Gifted Women and Skilled Practitioners: Gender and Healing Authority in the Delaware Valley, 1740–1830" (Temple University)

2015

Jessica Wilkerson, University of Mississippi, "Where Movements Meet: From the War on Poverty to Grassroots Feminism in the Appalachian South" (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

Honorable Mention: Keisha N. Blain, Pennsylvania State University, '''For the Freedom of the Race': Black Women and the Practices of Nationalism, 1929–1945" (Princeton University)

2014

Katherine M. Marino, Ohio State University. "La Vanguardia Feminista: Pan-American Feminism and the Rise of International Women's Rights, 1915-1946" (Stanford University dissertation)

2013

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, University of Iowa, “‘Nobody Couldn’t Sell’em but Her’: Slaveowning Women, Mastery, and the Gendered Politics of the Antebellum Slave Market”

2012

Katherine Turk, Indiana University Maurer School of Law (Spring 2012)/University of Texas at Dallas (Fall 2012), “Equality on Trial: Women and Work in the Age of Title VII”

2011

Sarah Haley, Princeton University (Spring 2011) / University of California, Los Angeles (Fall 2011), "Engendering Captivity: Black Women and Convict Labor in Georgia, 1865–1938"

2010

Jessie B. Ramey, University of Pittsburgh, "A Childcare Crisis: Poor Black and White Families in Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878–1929"

2009

Jane Alexandra Berger, Cornell University, “When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay: Gender and the Urban Crisis in Baltimore, 1945–1985”

2008

Danielle L. McGuire, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/Wayne State University (fall 2008), "At the Dark End of the Street: Sexualized Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African-American Freedom Struggle"

2007

Serena Mayeri, University of Pennsylvania Law School, "Reasoning from Race: The Civil Rights Paradigm and American Legal Feminism, 1960–1979"

2006

Margot Canaday, Princeton University, "The Straight State: Sexuality and American Citizenship, 1900–1969" (University of Minnesota)

2005

Vasantha Lynn Kennedy, University of Lethbridge, “Partus Sequitur Ventrem: Narratives of Childbirth and Motherhood in the Antebellum South,” (University of Western Ontario)

2004

Jennifer Guglielmo, Smith College, "Negotiating Gender, Race, and Coalition: Italian Women and Working-Class Politics in New York City, 1880–1945"

2003

Rebecca Jo Plant, University of California, San Diego, "The Repeal of Mother Love" (Johns Hopkins University)

2002

Lisa G. Materson, Yale University, "Respectable Partisans: African American Women in Electoral Politics, 1877–1936"

2001

Amy G. Richter, Clark University, "Tracking Public Culture: Women, the Railroad, and the End of the Victorian Public"

2000

Karen J. Leong, Arizona State University, "The China Mystique: Mayling Soong Chiang, Pearl S. Buck and Anna May Wong in the American Imagination"

Carol Williams, Rutgers University, "Framing the West: Race, Gender and the Photographic Frontier' on the Northwest Coast, 1858–1912"

1999

Catherine Allgor, "Political Parties: Society and Politics in Washington City, 1800–1832"

1998

Marla R. Miller, "My Daily Bread Depends Upon My Labor: Craftswomen, Community, and the Marketplace in Rural Massachusetts, 1740–1820"

1997

Karen Ward Mahar, Texas A & M University—Corpus Christi, "Women, Filmmaking, and the Gendering of the American Film Industry, 1896–1928"

Victoria W. Wolcott, University of Rochester, "Remaking Respectability: African American Women and the Politics of Identity in Inter-sar Detroit"

1996

Barbara Young Welke, University of Oregon, "Gendered Journeys: A History of Injury, Public Transport, and American Law, 1865–1920"

1995

Elizabeth R. Varon, Wellesley College, "'We Mean to be Counted': White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia"

1994

No award given.

1993

Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, "Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920"

1992

Rickie Solinger, CUNY Graduate Center, "Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race in the Pre-Roe v. Wade Era, 1945–1965"