Walkowitz Prize Increase

We are delighted to announce an increase in the award amount for the Judith R. Walkowitz Prize. Thanks to a generous donation, the prize now carries a cash award of $1,000. The Walkowitz Prize is awarded annually for the best published article on issues relating to gender and sexuality in the field of British Studies.

It honors Professor Walkowitz’s outstanding work in the history of gender, sexuality, and culture and her influence in the field and on the community of scholars who participate in it. Increasing the award affirms the value of this scholarship and our commitment to supporting research that investigates how cultural, political, and social contexts shape gender and sexuality.

The prize deadline has been extended to May 15. We welcome submissions from a wide range of disciplines on issues relating to gender and sexuality in British culture. For more information about nominating an article, see our website.

Recent winners of the Judith R. Walkowitz Article Prize

2024

Lynneth Miller Renberg (Anderson University) “Sacrilegious bodies: Gender, race, and medieval dance in nineteenth-century missions,” published in Postmedieval in 2023.

2023

Seth Stein Lejacq (Duke University), “‘O my poor Arse, my Arse can best tell’: Surgeons, Ordinary Witnesses, and the Sodomitical Body in Georgian Britain,” published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality in 2022.

2022

Olivia Weisser (University of Massachusetts, Boston), “Poxed and Ravished: Venereal Disease in Early Modern Rape Trials,” published in History Workshop Journal in 2021.

2021

Averill Earls (Mercyhurst University), “Solicitor Brown and his boy: Love, Sex and Scandal in 20th century Ireland” published in Historical Reflections in 2020.

Honorable Mention

Satyasikha Chakraborty (The College of New Jersey), “’Nurses of Our Ocean Highways’: The Precarious Metropolitan Lives of Colonial South Asian Ayahs,” published in Journal of Women’s History in 2020.

Emily L. Loney (University of Madison-Wisconsin), “Redressing the Past: New Clothes, Old Estates, and Anne Clifford’s Fashioning of Community,” published in Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal in 2020.

2020  

Julia Rudolph (North Carolina State University), “Crediting Women,” published in Droit & Philosophie in 2019.

2019

Amanda Herbert (Durham University), “Queer Intimacy: Speaking with the Dead in Eighteenth-Century Britain,” published in Gender & History 31 in 2018.

2018

Elizabeth Prevost (Grinnell College), “On Feminists, Functionalists, and Friends: Lobola and the Gender Politics of Imperial Trusteeship in Interwar Britain,” published in The Journal of Modern History in 2017.

Honorable Mention

Sasha Turner (Quinnipiac University), “The Nameless and the Forgotten: Maternal Grief, Sacred Protection, and the Archive of Slavery,” published in Slavery and Abolition in 2017.

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