2018-2019
Catherine E. Clark (History and French Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Paris and the Cliché of History: The City and Photographs, 1860-1970 (Oxford University Press, 2018)
Honorable mentions were given to the following:
Thomas Dodman, What Nostalgia Was: War, Empire, and the Time of a Deadly Emotion (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Julie Kleinman, Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris (University of California Press, 2019)
2016-2017
Laura Kalba (Art History, University of Minnesota)
Color in the Age of Impressionism: Commerce, Technology, and Art (Penn State, 2017)
Honorable mentions were given to the following:
Darcie Fontaine, Decolonizing Christianity: Religion and the End of Empire in France and Algeria (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
Graham Jones, Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
Rebecca Scales, Radio and the Politics of Sound in Interwar France, 1921–1939 (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
2014-2015
Charly Coleman (History, Columbia University)
The Virtues of Abandon: An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment (Stanford University Press, 2014.)
Honorable mentions were given to the following:
Kenny Cupers, The Social Project: Housing in Postwar France (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)
Ethan Katz, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard University Press, 2015)
Jennifer Wild, The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923 (University of California Press, 2015)
2012-2013
Brent Rushforth (History, William & Mary)
Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France (UNC Press, 2012)
2010-2011
Brian Martin (French, Williams College)
Napoleonic Friendship: Military Fraternity, Intimacy, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century France (University of New Hampshire Press, 2011)
2008-2009
Peter J. Bloom (Film and Media Studies, UC-Santa Barbara)
French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism (University of Minnesota Press, 2008)
2006-2007
Rebecca DeRoo (Performing Arts & Visual Culture, Rochester Institute of Technology)
The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
2003-2005
Stéphane Gerson (French Studies, NYU)
The Pride of Place. Local Memories and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century France (Cornell University Press, 2003)
2001-2000
James Lehning (History, University of Utah)
To Be a Citizen: the Political Culture of the Early French Third Republic (Cornell University Press, 2002)
1999-2000
Daniel Sherman (History, UNC)
The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (University of Chicago Press, 1999)
1997-1998
Shanny Peer (Maison Française, Columbia University)
France on Display: Peasants, Provincials and Folklore in the 1937 Paris World Fair (SUNY Press, 1998)
1995-1996
Kristin Ross (Comparative Literature, NYU)
Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture (MIT Press, 1995)