Anne Braden Prize

Award Description

The Anne Braden Prize was established in 2020 to commemorate the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, recognizing the right of women to vote. The Braden Prize recognizes an article in a journal or edited book focusing on Southern women’s history. Articles on women from every racial, ethnic, class, or subregional background are welcome. The prize is awarded yearly. Off-prints or articles published in calendar year 2024 should be submitted to [email protected] by May 1, 2025.

2026 Award Committee

Elizabeth McRae, Western Carolina University, Chair
Shannon Eaves, College of Charleston
Karen Leathem, Louisiana State Museum

Past Winners

2024 - Hayley Negrin
“Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America,” Environmental History 28 (July 2023).

2023 - Kimberly Mae Welch
“The Stability of Fortunes: A Free Black Woman, Her Legacy, and the Legal Archive in Antebellum New Orleans,” Journal of the Civil War Era (December 2022).