THE IRENE LEDESMA PRIZE

2006: Christine Christensen, Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Irvine, "Mujeres Publicas:" Euro-American Prostitutes and Reformers at the California-Mexico Border (1914-1929).

2005: Robin Conner, Ph.D. candidate, Emory University, "Civilizing Soldiers: Gender and Domesticity in the Western Army."

2004:  Helen McLure, Ph.D. candidate, Southern Methodist University. "I Suppose You Think Strange the Murder of Women and Children": Whitecapping and Lynching in the U.S. West, Midwest, and Southwest, 1850-1930.

2003: Maritza De La Trinidad, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arizona. "Collective Outrage: Mexican American Activism and the Fight for Educational Equality." 

2002: Laurie Arnold, Ph.D. Candidate, Arizona State University. "The Colville Tribes and Termination, Divisions and Gender."

2001: Katherine Benton, Ph.D. Candidate University of Wisconsin, Madison. "What About Women in the 'White Man's Camp'?: Gender, Nation, and the Redefinition of Race in Cochise County, Arizona, 1853-1941."   

2000: Adriana Ayala, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas, Austin for "The Significance of Race and Gender in Women's Organizations in San Antonio, Texas, 1920s-1940."

1999: Elizabeth Escobedo, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington for "Forgotten Youth: Adolescence and the Mexican American Woman in WWII Los Angeles."

1998: Dedra McDonald, Ph.D. Candidate, University of New Mexico for "Negotiated Conquests:  Domestic Servants and Gender in the Spanish and Mexican Borderlands, 1598-1860."

THE JENSEN-MILLER PRIZE

2006: Sarah Carter, "Britishness, Foreignness, Women, and Land in Western Canada, 1880s-1920s," Humanities Research: The Journal of the Humanities Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University, Vol. 13, No. 1 (2006): 43-60. 

2005: Dee Garceau-Hagen, “Finding Mary Fields: Race, Gender and the Construction of Memory,” published in Portraits of Women in the American West (Routledge, 2005).

2004: Adele Perry, "The Autocracy of Love and the Legitimacy of Empire: Intimacy, Power, and Scandal in Nineteenth-Century Metlakahtlah," Gender and History Vol. 16, Issue 2, August 2004.

2003: Ann R. Gabbert, “Prostitution and Moral Reform in the Borderlands: El Paso , 1890-1920,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 12, 4 (October 2003):  575-604. 

--Ann Gabbert (2003 Winner) and James Brooks, CWWH Breakfast, Las Vegas 2004

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A collection of the first twelve Jensen-Miller Prize winning essays is now available in paperback: Women and Gender in the American West: Jensen-Miller Essays from the Coalition for Western Women's History, Mary Ann Irwin and James F. Brooks, eds. (University of New Mexico Press, 2004).

The following essays are included in the volume:

2002: Margaret D. Jacobs, "The Eastmans and the Luhans: Interracial Marriage between White Women and Native American Men, 1875-1935.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 23:3 (2002) .

2001: Laura Jane Moore, "Elle Meets the President: Weaving Navajo Culture and Commerce in the Southwestern Tourist Industry." Frontiers 22:1, (2001) 21-44.

2000: Lynn M. Hudson, "'Strong Animal Passions' in the Gilded Age: Race, Sex, and a Senator on Trial.” Journal of the History of Sexuality, vol. 9, no. 1-2, (January/April 2000) 62-84.

1999: Mary Ann Irwin, “’Going About and Doing Good’: The Politics of Benevolence, Welfare, and Gender in San Francisco, 1850-1880.” Pacific Historical Review 68 (August 1999).

1998: Jean Barman, “Taming Aboriginal Sexuality: Gender, Power, and Race in British Columbia, 1850-1900.” BC Studies 115/116 (autumn/winter 1997/98). 237-266.

1997: Catherine A. Cavanaugh, “’No Place for a Woman’: Engendering Western Canadian Settlement.” Western Historical Quarterly 28 (winter 1997) 493-518.

1996: James F. Brooks, “’This Evil Extends Especially…to the Feminine Sex’: Negotiating Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands.” Feminist Studies 22:2 (Summer 1996).

1995: Irene Ledesma, “Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers’ Activism, 1919-1974.” Western Historical Quarterly 15:3 (November 1995).

1994: Amy Kaminsky, “Gender, Race, Raza.” Feminist Studies (1994).

1993: Susan Lee Johnson, “’A Memory Sweet to Soldiers’: The Significance of Gender in the History of the ‘American West’.” Western Historical Quarterly 14:3 (November 1993) 495-517.

1992: Antonia I. Castañeda, “Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History: The Discourse, Politics, and Decolonization of History.” Pacific Historical Review  (1992) 501-533.   

1991: Peggy Pascoe, “Race, Gender, and Intercultural Relations: the Case of Interracial Marriage.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies 12:1 (1991)   

1990:  Carol Cornwall Madsen, “’At Their Peril’: Utah Law and the Case of Plural Wives, 1850-1900.” Western Historical Quarterly (November 1990)