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The Society for French Historical Studies awards the David H. Pinkney Prize for the most distinguished book in French history, published for the first time and with a copyright date of 2022, by a citizen of the United States or Canada or by an author with a full-time appointment at a US or Canadian college or university. Books focusing on any historical period or type of history may be considered, but unpublished or edited works are ineligible. The winner, who receives $1,500, will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. The application deadline is January 1, 2023. Publishers should send a copy of each book to every member of the committee, whose addresses will appear on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Gilbert Chinard Book Prize is awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies with the financial support of its Institut Français d'Amérique fund. It recognizes the best book published by a North American press in one of the two following fields: the history of French-American relations or the comparative history of France and North, Central, or South America. Books focusing on any historical period or type of history qualify for consideration. Critical editions of significant source materials, as well as books translated into English, are eligible. The winner, who receives $1,000, will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. For this year's competition, books must be published in 2022, and the application deadline is January 1, 2023. Publishers should send a copy of each book to every member of the committee, whose addresses will appear on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies awards the William Koren Jr. Prize for the most outstanding article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar in a US, European, or Canadian journal. For this year's competition, the committee will seek out and consider articles published in 2022. The winner, who receives $1,000, will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. Please direct inquiries to the chair of the committee, whose address will appear on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History offer an annual award of $2,000 for research on any aspect of the history of France to be conducted outside North America. This award is intended to help an outstanding scholar from the United States or Canada prepare work for publication. For this year's competition, only scholars who have been granted their PhDs since January 2018 are eligible. The award must be spent within one year of its bestowal. The application deadline is February 15, 2023, and the winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. Further information about the application process is available on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies offers the Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Memorial Awards to support two outstanding in-progress dissertation projects on any period of French history by students enrolled in a doctoral program at a university in the United States or Canada. These awards of $5,000 each have been made possible by the generous donations of the family, friends, and colleagues of the Farrars. For one of the awards, the committee will give strong preference to studies that relate the history of France to another European country or part of the world. The application deadline is February 15, 2023, and the winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the society. Information about the application process is available on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies, supported by its Institut Français d'Amérique fund, offers two research fellowships of up to $1,500 each for maintenance during research in France for a period of at least one month. Eligible applicants include students working on their doctoral dissertations and scholars who have received their PhDs within three years of the application deadline. These awards may not be used for travel to or from France. The proposed fields for research may include all areas of French historical and cultural studies. The two awards will be named in alternating years the Gilbert Chinard Fellowship or the Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship for the first award, and the Edouard Morot-Sir Fellowship or the Catherine Maley Fellowship for the second award. The Chinard/Rorison Fellowship will support research in all areas of French historical and cultural studies. The Morot-Sir/Maley Fellowship will give preference to young scholars working in a broadly defined field of cultural history, art history, or literary studies. The winners will be announced at the annual meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies. The application deadline is February 15, 2023. Information about the application process is available on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies announces the winners of its prizes, awards, and fellowships for 2021–22.The David H. Pinkney Prize, for the most distinguished book in French history, published for the first time the preceding year by a citizen of the United States or Canada or by an author with a full-time appointment at a US or Canadian college or university, goes to Elizabeth Andrews Bond for The Writing Public: Participatory Knowledge Production in Enlightenment and Revolutionary France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2021).The William Koren Jr. Prize, for the most outstanding article published on any period of French history the previous year by a North American scholar in a US, European, or Canadian journal, goes to Danna Agmon for “Historical Gaps and Non-existent Sources: The Case of the Chaudrie Court in French India,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 63, no. 4 (2021): 979–1006.The Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Memorial Awards support outstanding in-progress dissertation projects on any period of French history by students enrolled in a doctoral program at a university in the United States or Canada. This year's winners are Ethan Mefford, UCLA, for “Olives, Environment, and Resistance in Moroccan Jbala,” and Louise Moulin, Yale University, for “Why Print Drama in Early Modern France?”The Gilbert Chinard Book Prize, for the best book from a North American press on the history of French-American relations or the comparative history of France and North, Central, or South America, goes to Celeste Day Moore for Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021). Tessa Murphy received an honorable mention for The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).The Society for French Historical Studies and the Western Society for French History offers the annual Research Travel Award for research conducted outside North America on any aspect of the history of France. The 2022 award goes to Sarah Runcie, Muhlenberg College, for “Doctors with Borders: Decolonization and International Health in Cameroon.”The Institut Français d'Amérique fund's Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship, which supports research in all areas of French historical and cultural studies, goes to Delanie Linden, MIT, for “Other Colors: Chroma, Chemistry, and the Orient in Nineteenth-Century French Painting.”The Institut Français d'Amérique fund's Catherine Maley Fellowship, which gives preference to young scholars working in a broadly defined field of cultural history, art history, or literary studies, goes to Danielle Canter, University of Delaware, for “The Singular Impression: Monotype in Nineteenth-Century France.”Because the 2021 conference was canceled due to the COVID pandemic, there was no Natalie Zemon Davis Award for the best paper.All prizes, awards, and fellowships depend on the financial support of members and other friends of the SFHS. If you would like to donate to any of these prize funds, please visit the donation page on the SFHS website: www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/donations1.

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