Recipients

2020: Brianna Theobald, Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

2019: Erika Pérez, Colonial Intimacies: Interethnic Kinship, Sexuality, and Marriage in Southern California, 1769-1885 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018).

2018: Lynne Marie Getz, Abolitionists, Doctors, Ranchers, and Writers: A Family Journey through American History (University Press of Kansas, 2017).

2017: Katrina Jagodinsky, Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946 (Yale University Press, 2016).

2016: Honor Sachs, Home Rule: Households, Manhood and National Expansion on the Eighteenth- Century Kentucky Frontier (Yale University Press, 2015).

2015: Elsie Paul (edited by Paige Raibmon and Harmony Johnson), Written as I Remember It: Teachings (??ms ta?aw) from the LIfe of a Sliammon Elder (University of British Columbia Press, 2014).

2014: Elizabeth R. Escobedo, From Coveralls to Zoot Suits: The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front (University of North Carolina Press, 2013).

2013: Anne M. Butler, Across God’s Frontiers: Catholic Sisters in the American West, 1850-1920 (University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

(Honorable Mention for 2013): Mary S. Melcher, Pregnancy, Motherhood, and Choice in Twentieth Century Arizona (University of Arizona Press, 2012).

2012: Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormick, eds., Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (Athabascan University Press, 2011).

2011: Marilyn S. Blackwell & Kristen Oertel, Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood (University Press of Kansas, 2010).

2010: Margaret Jacobs, White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 (University of Nebraska Press, 2009).