Updated: May 5, 2008 |
The David Pinkney Prize is awarded annually by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best book on French history published by a North American scholar. The 2007 winner is Carol Symes (University of Illinois) for A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Cornell University Press). The William Koren, Jr., Prize is awarded annually by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article on French history published by a North American Scholar. The 2007 winner is Lenard Berlanstein (University of Virginia) for “Selling Modern Feminity: Femina, a Forgotten Feminist Publishing Success in Belle Epoque France,” French Historical Studies 30 (2007), 623-49. The Research Travel Award is awarded annually by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History to an American or Canadian scholar who has received a doctorate in the five-year period prior to the award for research outside North America on any aspect of the history of France. The 2007 winner is Claire Salinas (Colorado College) for "Settling Society in France and Algeria: Emigration, Colonization, and Liberal Politics, 1830-1870". The Marjorie M. Farrar Memorial Award is granted annually by the Society for French Historical Studies to a doctoral student in French history at a North American university to support work on an outstanding dissertation in progress. The 2007 winner is Joy Crosby (PhD candidate, University of California, Berkeley) for "Theological Space and Making Belief: The King, the Church and the Theater in Seventeenth-Century France." The John B. and Theta H. Wolf Award is granted annually to a doctoral student at a university in the United States or Canada for dissertation research on a scholarly project in French history (any period) that reflects John Wolf’s interest in contributions to the study of European history. The Wolf award is administered jointly by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History. The 2007 winner is Ethan Katz (PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin) for "Jews and Muslims in the Shadow of Marianne: Conflicting Identities and Republican Culture in France, 1914-1985." |