Past Winners

2023:
Judith Surkis, “Custody Battles and the Politics of Franco-Algerian Divorce, 1962–1992,” Journal of Modern History 94 no. 4 (2022): 857-897.
Honorable mention: Jennifer Heuer, “Neither Cowardly nor Greedy? Buying and Selling Escape from Conscription in Revolutionary and Post-revolutionary France” French History 36 no. 2 (2022): 209-229.

2022:
Danna Agmon, “Historical Gaps and Non-existent Sources: The Case of the Chaudrie Court in French India,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 63:4 (2021): 979-1006.

2021:
Sarah Maza, “Toy Stories: Poupées, culture matérielle et imaginaire de classe dans la France du XIXe siècle,”Revue historique no. 694 (2020): 135-67.
Honorable Mention: Ethan Katz, “Jewish Citizens of an Imperial Nation-State: Toward a French-Algerian Frame for French Jewish History,” French Historical Studies 43:1 (2020): 63-84.

2020:
Elisa Camiscioli, “Coercion and Choice: The ‘Traffic in Women’ between France and Argentina in the Early Twentieth Century,” French Historical Studies 42, no. 3 (August 2019): 483-507.
Honorable Mention: Julia Gossard, “Breaking a Child’s Will: Eighteenth-Century Parisian Juvenile Detention Centers,” French Historical Studies 42, no. 2 (April 2019): 239-59.

2019:
Kathleen Pierce, “Scarified Skin and Simian Symptoms: Experimental Medicine and Picasso's Les Demoiselles D'Avignon,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 17, no. 2 (Autumn 2018). 

2018:
Jamie Kreiner, “Pigs in the Flesh and Fisc: An Early Medieval Ecology,” Past and Present 236 (2017): 3–42.
Honorable Mention: Alexandra Steinlight, “The Liberation of Paper: Destruction, Salvaging, and the Remaking of the Republican State," French Historical Studies 40, no. 2 (April 2017): 291-318.

2017:
Nguyễn Thị Điểu, "Ritual, Power, and Pageantry French Ritual Politics in Monarchical Vietnam," French Historical Studies 39, no. 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: Joëlle 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.

1976:
Nancy Nichols Barker, "The French Colony in Mexico, 1821-61: Generator of Intervention," French Historical Studies, IX (Fall 1976), 596-618.

1975:
George D. Sussman, "The Wet-Nursing Business in Nineteenth-Century France," French Historical Studies, IX (Fall 1975), 304-28.

1974:
T. J. A. Goff and D. M. G. Sutherland, "The Revolution and the Rural Community in Eighteenth-Century Brittany," Past and Present, No. 62 (February 1974), 97.

1973:
Robert Darnton, "The Encyclopedie Wars of Pre-Revolutionary France," American Historical Review, LXXVIII (December 1973), 1331-52.

1972:
Natalie Zemon Davis, "The Reasons for Misrule: Youth Groups and Charivaris in Sixteenth-Century France," Past and Present, No. 50 (February 1971), 41.
George V. Taylor, "Revolutionary and Non-Revolutionary Content in the Cahiers of 1789: An Interim Report," French Historical Studies, VII (Fall 1972), 479-502.

1971:
Richard F. Kuisel, "The Legend of the Vichy Synarchy," French Historical Studies, VI (Spring 1970), 365-98.

1970:
Louis M. Greenberg, "The Commune of 1871 as a Decentralized Reaction," Journal of Modern History, XLI (September 1969), 304-18.

1968:
Natalie Zemon Davis, "Poor Relief, Humanism, and Heresy: The Case of Lyon," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (University of Nebraska Press), V (1958), 217-75
Leo A. Loubere, "The Emergence of the Extreme Left in Lower Languedoc, 1848-1851: Social and Economic Factors in Politics," American Historical Review, LXXIII (April 1968), 1019-52.

1967:
William F. Church, "The Decline of French Jurists as Political Theorists, 1660-1789," French Historical Studies, V (Spring 1967), 1-40
George V. Taylor, "Noncapitalist Wealth and the Origins of the French Revolution," American Historical Review, LXXII (January 1967), 469-96.

1966:
J. Russell Major, "Henry IV and Guyenne: A Study Concerning the Origins of Royal Absolutism," French Historical Studies, IV (Fall 1966), 363-83.

1965:
Peter N. Stearns, "Patterns of Industrial Strike Activity in France during the July Monarchy," American Historical Review, LXX (January 1965), 371-94.

1964:
Leon Bernard, "French Society and Popular Uprisings under Louis XIV," French Historical Studies, III (Fall 1964), 454-74.

1963:
Leslie Derfler, "Le 'Cas Millerand': Une Nouvelle Interpretation," Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, X (Avril-juin 1963), 81-104.

1962:
A. Lloyd Moote, "The Parliamentary Fronde and Seventeenth-Century Robe Solidarity," French Historical Studies, II (Spring 1962), 330-55.
George V. Taylor, "The Paris Bourse on the Eve of the Revolution, 1781-1789," American Historical Review, LXVII (July 1962), 951-77.

1961:
Philip C. F. Bankwitz, "Maxime Weygand and the Army-Nation Concept," French Historical Studies, II (Fall 1961), 147-88.

1960:
Eugen Weber, "Un Demi-siecle de glissement a droite," International Review of Social History, V (1960), 165-201.

1959:
Paul Bamford, "The Procurement of Oarsmen for French Galleys, 1660-1748," American Historical Review, LXV (October 1959), 31-48.

1958:
David D. Bien, "The Background of the Calas Affair,” History, XLIII (October 1958), 192-206.