The William Koren, Jr., Prize is awarded annually by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best article on French history published by a North American scholar.

2008

Prof. Lenard Berlanstein, Dept. of History, University of Virginia, for “Selling Modern Feminity: Femina, a Forgotten Feminist Publishing Success in Belle Epoque France,” French Historical Studies 30 (2007), 623-49.

2006

Natalie Lozovsky, Independent Scholar, Berkeley, California for “Roman Geography and Ethnography in the Carolingian Empire,” Speculum 81 (2006), 325-364.

2005

Paul A. Rahe, University of Tulsa, for "The Book that Never Was: Montesquieu's 'Considerations on the Romans' in Historical Context," The History of Political Thought 26, no. 1 (Spring 2005): pp. 43-89.

2004

Jay Rubenstein, University of New Mexico, for "Putting History to Use: Three Crusade Chronicles in Context," Viator 35 (2004): pp. 131-168.

Honorable Mention goes to Neil Safier, Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, for "'To Collect and Abridge& Without Changing Anything Essential:' Rewriting Incan History at the Parisian Jardin du Roi," Book History 7 (2004): 63-96.

2003

Richard I. Jobs, (Pacific University, Forest Grove, for "Tarzan under Attack: Youth, Comics, and Cultural Reconstruction in Postwar France," French Historical Studies 26:4 (Fall 2003): 687-725.

Honorable Mention: Jolle Rollo-Koster, University of Rhode Island, for "The Politics of Body Parts: Contested Topographies in Late-Medieval Avignon," Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 78:1 (2003): 66-98.

2002

Patricia Lorcin, Texas Tech University, "Rome and France in Africa: Recovering Colonial Algeria's Latin Past," French Historical Studies 25 (Spring 2002): 295-330.

Honorable Mention: Dena Goodman, University of Michigan, "L'ortografe des dames: Gender and Language in the Old Regime," French Historical Studies 25 (Spring 2002): 191-224.

2001

Jotham Parsons, "Money and Sovereignty in Early Modern France." Journal of the History of Ideas 62 (no. 1, January 2001): 59-79.

2000

Stéphane Gerson, "Town, Nation, or Humanity? Festival Delineation of Place and Past in Northern France, ca. 1825-65," Journal of Modern History 72 (September 2000): 628-82.

Distinguished designation to Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, "Medieval Identity: A Sign and a Concept," American Historical Review, 105 (5).

1999

Suzanne Desan, "Reconstituting the Social after the Terror: Family, Property, and Law in Popular Politics," Past and Present no. 164 (August 1999): 81-121.

Distingished designation to Jo Burr Margadant, "Gender, Vice and the Political Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century France: Reinterpreting the Failure of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848", American Historical Review, 1999.

1998

Alice Conklin, "Colonialism and Human Rights: The French Case in West Africa," American Historical Review 103:2 (1998).

Distinguished designation to Michael Kwass, "A Kingdom of Taxpayers: State Formation, Privilege, and Political Culture in Eighteenth-Century France," The Journal of Modern History 70 (June 1998): 295-339.

1997

Daniel Lord Smail, "Telling Tales in Angevin Courts," French Historical Studies 20 (Spring 1997): 183-215.

1996

Bonnie Smith, "History and Genius: The Narcotic, Erotic, and Baroque Life of Germaine de Stael," French Historical Studies 19 (Fall, 1996): 1059-1081.

1995

Elizabeth Rapley, "The Shaping of Things to Come: The Commission des Secours, 1727-1788," French History 8:4 (1994):420-442.

1994

Harry Liebersohn, "Discovering Indigenous Nobility: Tocqueville, Chamisso, and Romantic Travel Writing," American Historical Review 99 (1994):746-766.

1993

Liana Vardi, "Constructing the Harvest: Gleaners, Farmers, and Officials in Early Modern France," American Historical Review (1993).

1992

Judith Miller, "Politics and Urban Provisioning Crises: Bakers, Police, and Parlements in France, 1750-1793," Journal of Modern History 64:2 (1992).

1991

C. Stephen Jaeger, "L'Amour des rois: structure sociale d'une forme de sensibilité aristocratique," Annales: Économies, Sociétés, Civilisations 46 (1991).

Honorable Mention: Gay Gullickson, "Le Pétroleuse: Representing Revolution," Feminist Studies 17 (1991).

1990

Carla Hesse, "Enlightenment Epistemology and the Laws of Authorship in Revolutionary France, 1777-1793," Representations 30 (1990).

1989

Sarah Hanley, "Engendering the State: Family Formation and State Building in Early Modern France," French Historical Studies 16:1 (1989).

1988

Ruth Harris, "Melodrama, Hysteria, and Feminine Crimes of Passion in the Fin de Siecle," History Workshop 25 (1988): 31-63.

Honorable Mention: William Sewell, "Uneven Development, the Autonomy of Politics, and the Dockworkers of Nineteenth-Century Marseille," American Historical Review 93 (1988): 604-637.

1987

J. Russell Major "`Bastard Feudalism' and the Kiss: Changing Social Mores in Late Medieval and Early Modern France," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 17:3 (1987).

Gabrielle M. Spiegel, "Social Change and Literary Language: The Textualization of the Past in 13th-century Old French Historiography," Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 17 (1987, no. 2): 129-148.

1986

Nancy Fitch, "Les petits parisiens en province: the Silent Revolution in the Allier, 1860-1900," Journal of Family History 11 (1986).