The Southern Association for Women Historians invites submissions for the A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize is awarded annually for the best article published during the preceding year in the field of southern women’s history. Articles published in journals and anthologies between January 1 and December 31, 2025 are eligible in 2026. Entries must be written in English, but the competition is open to works published outside the U.S. Editors, authors, and other scholars are invited to nominate eligible articles for the prize.

2026 A. Elizabeth Taylor Prize Committee
Pippa Holloway (Chair)
Elizabeth G Masarik
Leah LaGrone  

To submit, email the article as an attachment to taylorprize@thesawh.org. The deadline for submission is June 15, 2026.

Past Winners

2025 Abigail J. Cooper, “Midwives of Invention: Black Healers and Reconciling Worldviews of Wellness in American Emancipation,” Journal of Social History

2024 Pippa Holloway. “Virginia Penny’s ‘State of Desperation’: Anger, Insanity, and Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky.” Ohio Valley History.

2023 Kathryn Beasley. “‘I Am Planning to Buy a New Buick Coupe Next Year’: Rural Women and Alabama’s Curb Markets, 1923-1929.” Alabama Review.

2022 Patrick J. Doyle. “‘It Will Take a Man Person with you to…Keep the Place Up’: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Common White Households.” Journal of Southern History.

2020 Elizabeth G. Masarik. “Por la Raza, Para la Raza: Jovita Idar and Progressive-Era Mexicana Maternalism Along the Texas-Mexico Border.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly