The Jacquelyn Dowd Hall Prize is awarded for the two best papers presented by graduate students at the triennial Southern Conference on Women’s History sponsored by the SAWH.  The prize is $200 to each recipient.

Past Winners

2025

Sara Curry, Queen’s University, Belfast. “School Board Warriors: The Minute Women’s Monopoly on Houston’s Education System.”

Morgan Bettin-Coleman, Rice University. “Bargaining with Blood: Rachel Findley, Mixed-Race Identity, and the Legal Contestation of Enslavement in Early Republic-Era Virginia.”

2022

Caitlyn Jones, University of Houston. “We Shall Overcome: Chicanas at the Texas State Women’s Meeting, 1977.”

Emma Taylor, Queen’s University, Belfast. “‘Private Rebellion Against Public Convention?’: Disguised Female Civil Soldiers and the Question of Activism.”