The Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History offer an annual award of $2,000 for research conducted outside North America on any aspect of the history of France.  This award is granted to an outstanding American or Canadian scholar who has received the doctorate in history in the five-year period previous to the award (since January 2004 for the 2009 award). The award must be spent no more than one year after the fellowship is awarded. In no more than two pages (single-spaced), the applicant should outline the nature and the scope of the project and the archives and libraries to be consulted.  The applicant must submit three copies of the proposal and a curriculum vitae.  In addition, the applicant must send or have sent two confidential letters of recommendation supporting the proposal. The deadline is 1 February 2009.  The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies.  Please direct inquiries to the chair of the committee:

Katherine Crawford
Department of History
VU Station B #351802
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1802
Email: Katherine.b.crawford@vanderbilt.edu. 

Previous recipients:

2006. Rebecca Pulju, Kent State University: "The Woman's Paradise: Gender and Consumer Culture in France, 1944-1965."

2005. Sara Beam, University of Victoria: "The Body of the Criminal in Europe, 1500 - 1750."

2004. Richard Keyser, Western Kentucky University: "From Gift to Contract: The Transformation of Medieval Property Dealings, Champagne 1100-1350."

2003. Richard C. Keller, University of Wisconsin-Madison: "Developing Madness: The Psychiatrist's Civilizing Mission in French North Africa, 1900-1962."

2002. Sean Kennedy, University of New Brunswick: "The Croix de Feu and the Parti Social Français in Algeria."

2001. Nancy Locklin, Maryville College: "Women in Early Modern Brittany: Rethinking Work and Identity in a Traditional Economy."

2000. Patrick R. Young, Fordham University: "The Consumer as National Subject: Bourgeois Tourism in the French Third Republic, 1880-1914."

1999. Michael Lynn, Agnes Scott College: "Popular Science in the French Enlightenment: The Dissemination of Natural Philosophy and the Creation of an Urban Scientific Culture"

1998. Nancy Edwards, Bowdoin College: "Regendering the Nation: the Role of the Housewife in French Indentity Formation from 1918 to Vichy."

1997. Mathew S. Kuefler.