Past Winners:

2019:
Ian W. Merkel, Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Turin, “Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Rethinking of the French Social Sciences.”

2018:
Miranda Sachs, Yale University, "Child’s Work: Welfare, Family, and Work in Third Republic France."

2017:
Nimisha Barton, Princeton University, "Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France."

2016: 
Bronwen McShea, Columbia University, "Patroness of Empire: Duchesse Marie d’Aiguillon and French-Catholic Expansion in 17th-Century Asia, America, and Africa."

2015: 
Laurie M. Wood, Florida State University, "Archipelago of Justice: Law in France’s Early Modern Empire."

2014: 
Burleigh Hendrickson, Northeastern University, "Imperial Fragments and Transnational Activism: 1968(s) in Tunisia, France, and Senegal."

2013: 
Elena Napolitano, University of Toronto, "Prospects of Statecraft: Diplomacy, Territoriality, and the Vision of French Nationhood in Rome, 1660-1700."

2012: 
Alexia Yates, Harvard University, "Selling Paris: Real Estate and Commercial Culture in the Fin-de-siècle Metropolis."

2011:
Christina Firpo, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, "'Abandoned Children': The Crises of Racial Patriarchy and the Forcible Removal of Mixed-Race Children in Colonial Indochina, 1890-1956."

2010:
Jennifer Palmer, University of Chicago, "An Ocean between Them: Race, Gender and the Family in France and Its Colonies."

2009:
Jonathyne Briggs, Indiana University Northwest, "Anarchie en France: Hypermodernity and French Popular Music, 1958-1981."

2008:
Claire Salinas, Colorado College,"Settling Society in France and Algeria: Emigration, Colonization, and Liberal Politics, 1830-1870."

2007:
Junko Tankeda, Syracuse University, "Between France and the Mediterranean: Absolutism and Commercial Humanism in Marseille, 1660-1720."

2006:
Rebecca Pulju, Kent State University, "The Woman's Paradise: Gender and Consumer Culture in France, 1944-1965."

2005:
Sara Beam, University of Victoria, "The Body of the Criminal in Europe, 1500 - 1750."

2004:
Richard Keyser, Western Kentucky University, "From Gift to Contract: The Transformation of Medieval Property Dealings, Champagne 1100-1350."

2003:
Richard C. Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Developing Madness: The Psychiatrist's Civilizing Mission in French North Africa, 1900-1962."

2002:
Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick, "The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français in Algeria."

2001:
Nancy Locklin, Maryville College, "Women in Early Modern Brittany: Rethinking Work and Identity in a Traditional Economy."

2000:
Patrick R. Young, Fordham University, "The Consumer as National Subject: Bourgeois Tourism in the French Third Republic, 1880-1914."

1999:
Michael Lynn, Agnes Scott College, "Popular Science in the French Enlightenment: The Dissemination of Natural Philosophy and the Creation of an Urban Scientific Culture."

1998:
Nancy Edwards, Bowdoin College, "Regendering the Nation: the Role of the Housewife in French Indentity Formation from 1918 to Vichy."

1997:
Mathew S. Kuefler, Rice University, "A Study of the Manuscripts of the Vita Sancti Geraldi Aureliancensis."