Le Prix Gilbert Chinard

Prochaine date limite de candidature: 1er janvier 2024.

Le Prix Gilbert Chinard est décerné chaque année par la Society for French Historical Studies, avec le soutien financier du Fonds de l’Institut Français d’Amérique. Il récompense le meilleur ouvrage, publié pour la première fois et avec un copyright de 2023, par une maison d’édition nord-américaine dans l’un des deux domaines suivants : l’histoire des relations franco-américaines ou l’histoire comparative de la France et de l’Amérique du Nord, Centrale ou du Sud. Sont acceptés les ouvrages portant sur toute période ou thématique historique, de même que les éditions critiques de sources notables et les ouvrages traduits en anglais.

Le lauréat ou la lauréate, qui se verra remettre un prix de 1000 dollars, sera proclamé lors de la conférence annuelle de la Société. Le prix ne peut être partagé, mais une « mention honorable » peut être décernée.

Modalités de candidature: les copies des ouvrages doivent être envoyées à chaque membre du comité ci-dessous.

Membres du comité:

Luc-André Brunet, chair (2024)

Open University 
5 Marmora Road
Cambridge CB1 3PY (UK) 
luc-andre.brunet@open.ac.uk

Venita Datta (2025)

Department of French and Francophone Studies
Wellesley College
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481 (USA)
vdatta@wellesley.edu

Ian Merkel (2026)

Ian Merkel
American Studies Department
P.O. Box 716
9700 AS Groningen
The Netherlands
i.w.merkel@rug.nl

A propos de Gilbert Chinard:

Gilbert Chinard (1881-1972) était un historien français de la littérature. Après des études universitaires à Poitiers et à Bordeaux, il partit en 1908 pour New York en tant que professeur invité de littérature française, avant de faire une carrière universitaire aux Etats-Unis, où il enseigna à l’Université Brown (1908-12), à l’Université de Californie à Berkeley (1912-1919), à l’université Johns Hopkins (1919-36) et enfin à l’université de Princeton (1937-1950).

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Past Winners

2023:
Manuel Covo, Entrepôt of Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Sovereignty, and the French-American Alliance. (Oxford University Press, 2022).
Honorable mention: Joan DeJean, Mutinous Women: How French Convicts Became Founding Mothers of the Gulf Coast. (Basic Books, 2022).

2022:
Celeste Day Moore, Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France (Duke University Press, 2021).
Honorable Mention: Tessa Murphy, The Creole Archipelago: Race and Borders in the Colonial Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021).

2021:
Vanessa Mongey, Rogue Revolutionaries: The Fight for Legitimacy in the Greater Caribbean (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020).

2020:
Céline Carayon, Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas (University of North Carolina Press, 2019).

2019:
Eric Jennings, Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Honorable Mention: Francesca Lidia Viano, Sentinel: The Unlikely Origins of the Statue of Liberty (Harvard University Press, 2018).

2018:
Paul Cheney, Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint Domingue (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

2017:
Kristen Stromberg Childers, Seeking Imperialism's Embrace: National Identity, Decolonization, and Assimilation in the French Caribbean (Oxford University Press, 2016).

2016: 
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Citizen Sailors: Becoming American in the Age of Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2015).

2015:
Michael Kwass, Contraband: Louis Mandrin and the Making of a Global Underground (Harvard University Press, 2014).

2014:
Mary Louise Roberts, What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American G.I. in World War II France (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

2013:
Rebecca Scott and Jean Hébrard, Freedom Papers: An Atlantic Odyssey in the Age of Emancipation (Harvard University Press, 2012).

2012:
Brooke Blower, Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture between the World Wars (Oxford University Press, 2011).

2011:
Ashli White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010).

2010:
Rachel Hope Cleves, The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

2009:
Neil Safier, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (University of Chicago Press, 2008).

2008:
Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French!: Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

2007:
John Garrigus, Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

2006:
Stacy Schiff, A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Brith of America (Henry Holt and Co., 2005).

2005:
Allan Greer, Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (Oxford University Press, 2005).

2004:
Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard University Press, 2003).

2003:
Mark Hulliung, Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France (Harvard University Press, 2002).

2002:
Irwin M. Wall, France, the United States, and the Algerian War (University of California Press, 2001).

2001:
Jacques Portes, Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914, translated by Elborg Forster (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

2000:
Samuel Scott, From Yorktown to Valmy (University of Colorado Press, 1999).

1999:
Philip Katz, From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune (Harvard University Press, 1998).

1998:
Nancy Green, Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industrialization and Immigration in New York and Paris (Duke University Press, 1997).

1997:
Lloyd Kramer, Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Culture and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (University of North Carolina Press, 1996).

1996:
Laura Meixner, French Realist Painting and the Critique of American Society, 1856-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

1995:
Elisa C. Klaus, Every Child a Lion: The Origins of Maternal and Infant Health Policy in the United States and France, 1890-1920 (Cornell University Press, 1993).

1994:
No prize awarded.

1993:
Richard Kuisel, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (University of California Press, 1993).

1992:
No prize awarded

1991:
Irwin M. Wall, The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954 (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

1990:
No prize awarded.

1989:
Patrice Higonnet, Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism (Harvard University Press, 1988).

1988:
No prize awarded.

1987:
Robert S. Weddle, editor, La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Gulf: Three Primary Documents (Texas A&M University Press, 1987).

1986:
Carl J. Ekberg, Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier (Patrice Press, 1985).

1985:
James Axtell, The Invasion Within: The Contect of Cultures in Colonial North America (Oxford University Press, 1985).

1984:
Patricia Kay Galloway, editor for volumes IV and V of Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion, 1729-1748, 1749-1763 (Louisiana State University Press, 1984).

1983:
Jon Butler, The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society (Harvard University Press, 1983).

1982:
Orville T. Murphy, Charles Fravier, Comte de Vergennes: French Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution, 1719-1787 (State University of New York Press, 1982).

1981:
John G. Reid, Acadia, Maine, and New Scotland: Marginal Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (University of Toronto Press, 1981).

1980:
James H. Hutson, John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution, (University of Kentucky Press, 1980).
Incentive Prize: Robert R. Crout, "The Diplomacy of Trade: The Influence of Commercial Considerations on French Involvement in the Anglo-American War of Independence, 1775-1778" (dissertation at the University of Georgia, 1977).

1979:
Stanley J. Idzerda, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790 (Cornell University Press, 1983).
Incentive Prize: Edward Angel, "James Monroe's Mission to Paris, 1794-1796" (dissertation).

1978:
Jay Higginbotham, Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Museum of the City of Mobile, 1977).
Incentive Prize: Thomas A. Sancton, "Red, White, and Blue: A Study of the American Image in the Eyes of the French Left, 1848-1871."

1977:
Lee Kennett, The French Forces in America 1780-1783 (Greenwood Press, 1977).

1976:
No prize awarded.
Honorable Mention: Howard C. Rice, Thomas Jefferson's Paris (Princeton University Press, 1976).

1975:
Jonathan A. Dull, The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787 (Princeton University Press, 1976); and
Russell M. Jones, "The Parisian Education of an American Surgeon, 832-1835."
Stephen A. Schuker, The End of French Dominance in Europe (University of North Carolina Press, 1976).
Honorable Mention: Henry Blumenthal, American and French Culture, 1800 to 1900: Interchanges of Arts, Science, Literature, and Society (Louisiana State University Press, 1976).

1974:
Albert Hall Bowman, The Struggle for Neutrality: Franco-American Diplomacy in the Federalist Era (University of Tennessee Press, 1974).
Incentive Prize: Melvin B. Leffler, "The Struggle for Stability: America Policy toward France, 1921-1933."

1973:
William J. Eccles, France in America (Harper & Row, 1972); and
Jacob Price, France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1574-1791, and Its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades, 2 vols. (University of Michigan Press, 1973).
Incentive Prize: James T. Schlefer, "The Making of Tocqueville's American (manuscript).

1972:
Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Anne S. K. Brown, The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army, 1780-1783 (Princeton University Press/Brown University Press, 1972).

1971:
Nancy Nichols Barker, The French Legation in Texas, 2 vols. (Texas State Historical Association, 1971, 1973).

1970:
Laura V. Monti, to support the publication of a detailed inventory of the Rochambeau Papers.

1969:
No prize awarded.

1968:
Daniel Carroll, "Henri Mercier's Diplomatic Mission to Washington" (manuscript, subsequently published as Henri Mercier and the American Civil War [Princeton University Press, 1971]).

1967:
William C. Stinchcombe, "French-American Alliance in American Politics, 1778-1783" (manuscript, subsequently published as The American Revolution and the French Alliance [Syracuse University Press, 1969]).