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Category: Dissertation Prize

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WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2022

Dr Anna Muggeridge / May 5, 2022

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2021-2022 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…

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Blog and News, Dissertation Prize, Prizes

Women’s History Network MA dissertation prize 2021

Dr Anna Muggeridge / March 11, 2022

The WHN is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 MA dissertation prize. The volume and quality of the entries we received speaks to the breadth and diversity of research into women’s history. All dissertations were written and researched…

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Blog and News, Dissertation Prize, Prizes

WHN MA Dissertation Prize 2021

Dr Anna Muggeridge / August 27, 2021

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2020-2021 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…

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Blog and News, Dissertation Prize

WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2021

WHN / May 13, 2021

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2020-2021 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…

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The Role of Women’s Genealogical Societies in the Rewriting of American History, c. 1890-1914 by Anya Cooper

Dr. Kate Law / February 1, 2021

In the aftermath of the Civil War, American nationalists faced the question of how to forge a participatory sense of allegiance to a nation recently divided over slavery. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the United Daughters of…

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Dissertation Prize

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2020

Professor Maggie Andrews / November 19, 2020

We received 19 submissions for the WHN Undergraduate Dissertation prize on a diverse range of topics, time periods and geographical contexts. The standard of the entries was incredibly high and a real celebration of undergraduate women’s history .The students drew…

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Dissertation Prize, Prizes

MA Dissertation Prize

Professor Maggie Andrews / November 19, 2020

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for a £250 prize of a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history written during the 2019-2020 academic year. The WHN welcomes research on any period and place,…

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