The David H. Pinkney Prize, for the most distinguished book in French history published for the first time the preceding year by a citizen of the United States or Canada or by an author with a full-time appointment at a US or Canadian college or university, goes to Judith G. Coffin for Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020), with an honorable mention for Nimisha Barton, Reproductive Citizens: Gender, Immigration, and the State in Modern France, 1880–1945 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020).The William Koren Jr. Prize, for the most outstanding article on any period of French history published the previous year by a scholar appointed at a college or university in the United States or Canada, goes to Sarah Maza for “Toy Stories: Poupées, culture matérielle et imaginaire de classe dans la France du XIXe siècle,” Revue historique, no. 694 (2020): 135–67. Ethan B. Katz receives an honorable mention for “Jewish Citizens of an Imperial Nation-State: Toward a French-Algerian Frame for French Jewish History,” French Historical Studies 43, no. 1 (2020): 63–84.The Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Memorial Awards support outstanding in-progress dissertation projects on any period of French history by students enrolled in a doctoral program at a university in the United States or Canada. This year's winners are John Joseph Dieck, University of Minnesota, for “The Contentious Commodity: The Cannabis Trade in Colonial and Post-colonial Morocco, 1912–1962,” and Glauco Schettini, Fordham University, for “The Catholic Counter-Revolution: A Global History, 1780s–1840s.”The Gilbert Chinard Fellowship, from the Institut Francais d'Amérique research fund, supports research in any area of French historical and cultural studies and goes this year to Bryna Cameron-Steinke, Georgetown University, for a project titled “Monks, Malaria, and Marshlands: The Lived Landscape of Early Medieval Northwestern France.”The Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowship, also from the Institut Francais d'Amérique research fund, gives preference to young scholars working in cultural history, art history, or literary studies and goes to Sarah K. Miles, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for “‘Un Seul et Même Combat’: Francophone Intellectuals, Global Solidarity, and Third Worldist Publishing from Paris to Algeria and Quebec, 1962–1981.”The Gilbert Chinard Book Prize, for the best book from a North American press on the history of French-American relations or the comparative history of France and the Americas, goes to Vanessa Mongey for Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).The Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History offer an annual Research Travel Award for research conducted outside North America on any aspect of the history of France. The 2021 award goes to Kelly Presutti, Cornell University, for “‘Agglomerations’: Accretive History in New Caledonia.”
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