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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 2023, 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 Books focusing on any historical period or type of history may be considered, but unpublished or edited works are ineligible.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 society's annual meeting. The application deadline is January 1, 2024. Publishers should send a copy of each book to all members of the committee, whose addresses will appear on the SFHS website at https://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 either in the history of French‐American relations or in 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 society's annual meeting. For this year's competition, books must be published in 2023, and the application deadline is January 1, 2024. Publishers should send a copy of each book to all members of the committee, whose addresses will appear on the SFHS website at https://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 2023. The winner, who receives $1,000, will be announced at the society's annual meeting. Please direct inquiries to the chair of the committee, whose address will appear on the SFHS website at https://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 2019 are eligible. The award must be spent within one year of its bestowal. The application deadline is January 1, 2024. Further information about the application process is available on the SFHS website at https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies offers the Marjorie M. and Lancelot L. Farrar Memorial Awards to support up to two outstanding in‐progress dissertation projects on any period of French history by students enrolled in doctoral programs at universities 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 a study that relates the history of France to another European country or part of the world. The application deadline is January 1, 2024, and the winners will be announced at the society's annual meeting. Information about the application process is available on the SFHS website at https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies confers the Natalie Zemon Davis Award for the best paper presented at its annual meeting by a graduate student enrolled in a doctoral program in the United States or Canada. Next year's competition will consider presentations at the SFHS conference in March 14–16, 2024. To apply, send the paper (no longer than fourteen pages double‐spaced, including all appropriate citations and bibliographical material) as an email attachment to the chair of the committee. For details about the exact submission deadline and instructions, please see the website at https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/the-natalie-davis-prize. The winner will be announced at the following annual conference.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 broadly defined fields of cultural history, art history, or literary studies. The winners will be announced at the society's annual meeting. The application deadline is January 1, 2024. Information about the application process is available on the SFHS website at https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/prizes.The Society for French Historical Studies announces the winners of its prizes, awards, and fellowships for 2022–23.The David H. Pinkney Prize, for the most distinguished book in French history, published for the first time in 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, goes to Meredith Martin and Gillian Weiss for The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France (Getty Research Institute, 2022). An honorable mention goes to Emily Marker for Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era (Cornell University Press, 2022).The Gilbert Chinard Book Prize, for the best book published by 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 Manuel Covo for Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint‐Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French‐American Alliance (Oxford University Press, 2022). An honorable mention goes to Joan DeJean for Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast (Basic Books, 2022).The William Koren Jr. Prize, for the most outstanding article published on any period of French history in 2022 by a scholar appointed at a college or university in the United States or Canada in a US, European, or Canadian journal, goes to Judith Surkis, “Custody Battles and the Politics of Franco‐Algerian Divorce, 1962–1992,” Journal of Modern History 94, no. 4 (2022): 857–97. An honorable mention goes to Jennifer Heuer, “Neither Cowardly nor Greedy? Buying and Selling Escape from Conscription in Revolutionary and Post‐revolutionary France,” French History 36, no. 2 (2022): 209–29.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 doctoral programs at universities in the United States or Canada. This year's winner is Marie Robin, Columbia University, for “Managing Sex Overseas in the French Army: Bordel Militaire de Campagne, Sexual Violence and Decolonization in Algeria and Vietnam (c. 1940–1960s).”The Natalie Zemon Davis Award, for the best paper presented at the SFHS's annual meeting by a graduate student enrolled in a doctoral program in the United States or Canada, goes to Nicholas O'Neill, University of Chicago, for “Accounting for Taste: Consumption, Value, and the Adoption of Double‐Entry Bookkeeping.”The Institut Français d'Amérique fund's Gilbert Chinard Fellowship, which supports research in all areas of French historical and cultural studies, goes to Patrick‐William Travens, University of Wisconsin–Madison, for “Imperial Jacobins: Colonialism, Revolution, and Local Politics in France's Atlantic Ports.”The Institut Français d'Amérique fund's Edouard Morot‐Sir Fellowship, which gives preference to young scholars working in broadly defined fields of cultural history, art history, or literary studies, goes to Nicola Angeli, Yale University, for “Sparks of Ink: Literature and Electricity in Fin‐de‐Siècle France.”The Research Travel Award was not awarded in 2023.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 at https://www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/donations1.

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