AHA Award Recipients
J. Russell Major Prize
The Major Prize was established in 2000 by Mrs. Blair Major, in memory of her husband, a distinguished scholar of French history who served on the history faculty at Emory University from 1949 until his retirement in 1990. The prize is awarded annually for the best work in English on any aspect of French history.
2009 |
Rachel G. Fuchs, Contested Paternity: Constructing Families in Modern France (Johns Hopkins University Press) |
2008 |
Amalia D. Kessler, A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth-Century France (Yale Univ. Press, 2007) |
2007 |
Martha Hanna, Your Death Would Be Mine: Paul and Marie Pireaud in the Great War, Harvard Univ. Press, 2006 |
| 2006 | Todd Shepard, Temple University, The Invention of Decolonization: The Algerian War and the Remaking of France (Cornell University Press, 2006) |
2005 |
Barbara Diefendorf, Boston University, From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris (Oxford University Press, 2004) |
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2004 |
Steven Englund, Paris France, Napoleon: A Political Life (Scribner, 2004) |
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2003 |
Jessica Riskin , Stanford University, Science in the Age of Sensibility: The Sentimental Empiricists of the French Enlightenment (University of Chicago Press, 2002) |
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2002 |
Robert Harms, Yale University, The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade(Basic Books, 2001) |
2001 |
Debora Silverman, University of California at Los Angeles, Van Gough and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000) |
2000 |
Daniel J. Sherman(Rice Univ.) for The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1999). |
