The Society for U. S. Intellectual History (S-USIH) is pleased to announce the 2019 Dorothy Ross Prize for best article in U.S. intellectual history. This award goes to an emerging scholar, defined as a current graduate student or a scholar within five years of receiving the PhD. The article must have appeared in an academic journal in the 2019 calendar year and may be submitted by the author, editor, or others. The winner receives $500.
This year’s prize goes to Chris Suh (Emory University), for “‘America’s Gunpowder Women:’ Pearl S. Buck and the Struggle for American Feminism, 1937-1941.” Suh’s work was published in the Pacific Historical Review [Vol. 88, No. 2 (Spring 2019), 175-207].
The committee’s statement: “In this article, Suh sheds new light on the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Pearl Buck and her role in international feminist politics in the 1930s. He draws on archival research at Princeton, the Library of Congress, and Buck’s personal papers to interweave the history of American literature with race, gender and politics in the New Deal era, all in a global context.”
The Selection Committee:
Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Chair)
Kimberly Hamlin, Miami University
Eran A. Zelnik, California State University, Chico
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