Past Winners

2017:
Nguyễn Thị Điểu, "Ritual, Power, and Pageantry French Ritual Politics in Monarchical Vietnam," French Historical Studies 39:4 (2016): 717-748.

2016: 
Peter Cook, "Onontio Gives Birth: How the French in Canada Became Fathers to Their Indigenous Allies, 1645-73," Canadian Historical Review 96, no. 2 (2015): 165-93.

2015:
Jennifer Edwards, "My Sister for Abbess: Fifteenth-Century Disputes over the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, Poitiers," Journal of Medieval History 40, no. 1 (2014): 85-107.

2014:  
Richard C. Keller, "Place Matters: Mortality, Space, and Urban Fear in the 2013 Paris Heat Wave," French Historical Studies 36, no. 2 (2013): 299-330.

2013: 
John Warne Monroe, "Surface Tensions: Empire, Parisian Modernism, and 'Authenticity' in African Sculpture, 1917-1939," American Historical Review 117, no. 2 (2012): 445-75.
Honorable Mention: Victoria Thompson, "The Creation, Destruction and Recreation of Henry IV," History and Memory 24, no. 2 (2012): 5-40.

2012:
Thomas Dodman, "Un pays pour la colonie: Mourir de nostalgie en Algérie française, 1830-1880," Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales 66, no. 3 (2011): 743-84.
Honorable Mention: Jamie Kreiner, "About the Bishop: The Episcopal Entourage and the Economy of Government in Late Medieval Gaul," Speculum 86, no. 2 (2011): 321-60.

2011: 
Rafe Blaufarb, "Conflict and Compromise: Communauté et Seigneurie in Early Modern Provence," Journal of Modern History 82, no. 3 (2010): 519-45.
Honorable Mention: Mary Louise Roberts, "The Silver Foxhole: The GIs and Prostitution in Paris," French Historical Studies 33, no. 1 (2010): 99-128

2010: 
Michel de Waele, "'Paris est libre,' Entries as Reconciliations: From Charles VII to Charles de Gaulle," French History 23, no. 4 (2009): 425-45.
Honorable Mention: Christopher Hodson, "Colonizing the Patrie: An Experiment Gone Wrong in Old Regime France," French Historical Studies 32, no. 2 (2009): 193-222.

2009: 
Caroline Ford, "Reforestation, Landscape Conservation, and the Anxieties of Empire in French Colonial Algeria," American Historical Review 113, no. 2 (2008): 341-62.
Honorable Mention: Dan Edelstein, "'War and Terror': The Law of Nations from Grotius to the French Revolution," French Historical Studies 31, no. 2 (2008): 229-62.

2008: 
Lenard Berlanstein, "Selling Modern Femininity: Femina, a Forgotten Feminist Publishing Success in Belle Epoque France," French Historical Studies 30, no. 4 (2007): 623-49; and
Allan Tulchin, "Same-sex Couples Creating Households in Old Regime France: The Use of the Affrèrement," Journal of Modern History 79, no. 3 (2007): 613-47.

2007: 
Natalie Lozovsky, "Roman Geography and Ethnography in the Carolingian Empire," Speculum 81, no. 2 (2006): 325-64.

2006:
Paul A. Rahe, "The Book that Never Was: Montesquieu's 'Considerations on the Romans' in Historical Context," The History of Political Thought 26, no. 1 (2005): 43-89.

2005: 
Jay Rubenstein, "Putting History to Use: Three Crusade Chronicles in Context," Viator 35 (2004): 131-68.
Honorable Mention: Neil Safier, "'To Collect and Abridge without Changing Anything Essential': Rewriting Incan History at the Parisian Jardin du Roi," Book History 7 (2004): 63-96.

2004:
Richard I. Jobs, "Tarzan under Attack: Youth, Comics, and Cultural Reconstruction in Postwar France," French Historical Studies 26, no. 4 (2003): 687-725.
Honorable Mention: Jolle Rollo-Koster, "The Politics of Body Parts: Contested Topographies in Late-Medieval Avignon," Speculum 78, no. 1 (2003): 66-98.

2003: 
Patricia Lorcin, "Rome and France in Africa: Recovering Colonial Algeria's Latin Past," French Historical Studies 25, no. 2 (2002): 295-329.
Honorable Mention: Dena Goodman, "L'ortografe des dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime," French Historical Studies 25, no. 2 (2002): 191-223.

2002: 
Jotham Parsons, "Money and Sovereignty in Early Modern France," Journal of the History of Ideas 62, no. 1 (2001): 59-79.

2001: 
Stéphane Gerson, "Town, Nation, or Humanity? Festival Delineation of Place and Past in Northern France, ca. 1825-65," Journal of Modern History 72, no. 3 (2000): 628-82.
Honorable Mention: Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, "Medieval Identity: A Sign and a Concept," American Historical Review 105, no. 5 (2000): 1489-1533.

2000: 
Suzanne Desan, "Reconstituting the Social after the Terror: Family, Property, and Law in Popular Politics," Past and Present no. 164 (1999): 81-121.
Honorable Mention: Jo Burr Margadant, "Gender, Vice and the Political Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century France: Reinterpreting the Failure of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848," American Historical Review 104, no. 5 (1999): 1461-96.

1999: 
Alice Conklin, "Colonialism and Human Rights: The French Case in West Africa," American Historical Review 103, no. 2 (1998): 419-42.
Honorable Mention: Michael Kwass, "A Kingdom of Taxpayers: State Formation, Privilege, and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century France," The Journal of Modern History 70, no 2 (1998): 295-339.

1998: 
Daniel Lord Smail, "Telling Tales in Angevin Courts," French Historical Studies 20, no. 2 (1997): 183-215.

1997: 
Bonnie Smith, "History and Genius: The Narcotic, Erotic, and Baroque Life of Germaine de Stael," French Historical Studies 19, no. 4 (1996): 1059-81.

1996: 
Elizabeth Rapley, "The Shaping of Things to Come: The Commission des Secours, 1727-1788," French History 8, no. 4 (1994): 420-42.

1995: 
Harry Liebersohn, "Discovering Indigenous Nobility: Tocqueville, Chamisso, and Romantic Travel Writing," American Historical Review 99, no. 3 (1994): 746-66.

1994: 
Liana Vardi, "Constructing the Harvest: Gleaners, Farmers, and Officials in Early Modern France," American Historical Review 98, no. 5 (1993): 1424-47.

1993: 
Judith Miller, "Politics and Urban Provisioning Crises: Bakers, Police, and Parlements in France, 1750-1793," Journal of Modern History 64, no. 2 (1992): 227-62.

1992: 
C. Stephen Jaeger, "L'Amour des rois: structure sociale d'une forme de sensibilité aristocratique," Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations 46 , no. 3 (1991): 547-71.
Honorable Mention: Gay L. Gullickson, "Le Pétroleuse: Representing Revolution," Feminist Studies no. 17 (1991): 240-65.

1991: 
Carla Hesse, "Enlightenment Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary France, 1777-1793," Representations no. 30 (1990): 109-37.

1990: 
Sarah Hanley, "Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France," French Historical Studies 16, no. 1 (1989): 4-27.

1989: 
Ruth Harris, "Melodrama, Hysteria, and Feminine Crimes of Passion in the Fin de Siecle," History Workshop no. 25 (1988): 31-63.
Honorable Mention: William Sewell, "Uneven Development, the Autonomy of Politics, and the Dockworkers of Nineteenth-Century Marseille," American Historical Review 93, no. 3 (1988): 604-37.

1988: 
J. Russell Major, "'Bastard Feudalism' and the Kiss: Changing Social Mores in Late Medieval and Early Modern France," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 17, no. 3 (1987): 509-35; and
Gabrielle M. Spiegel, "Social Change and Literary Language: The Textualization of the Past in 13th-century Old French Historiography," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 17, no. 2 (1987): 129-48.

1987: 
Nancy Fitch, "Les petits parisiens en province: The Silent Revolution in the Allier, 1860-1900," Journal of Family History 11, no. 2 (1986): 131-55.