PRIZES

for Books & Articles

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Current Prizes

The David H. Pinkney Prize

The William Koren Jr. Prize

The Gilbert Chinard Book Prize

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The David H. Pinkney Prize

The Society for French Historical Studies awards the David H. Pinkney Prize to 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 an American or Canadian college or university. 

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The William Koren Jr. Prize

The Society for French Historical Studies awards the Koren Prize to 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.

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The Gilbert Chinard Prize

The Gilbert Chinard Prize is awarded each year by the Society for French Historical Studies with the financial support of the Institut Français d’Amérique Fund.  It recognizes the best book published the preceding year by a North American press in one of the two following fields: the history of French-American relations; or the comparative history of France and North, Central, or South America.

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