The award-winning Journal of Women’s History is a quarterly, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press that showcases the dynamic international field of women’s history. The JWH features cutting-edge scholarship from around the globe in all historical periods. Publication in the JWH is a mark of scholarly distinction. It offers clear evidence of a scholar’s ability to ask and answer compelling questions of general interest. We invite you to spend some time here. You’ll learn about where we have come from and where we are heading as a journal, as a discipline, and as a scholarly community.
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Special Issue “Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause,” (Spring 2025) with Guest Editor Izumi Nakayama (University of Hong Kong) is now open access on Project MUSE here
Prize-winning Article
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians awarded their prize for “Best Article in Histories of Women and Gender” to JWH Author, Morgan McCullough for her article “‘Periodical Habits’: Native American Women, Movement, and Menstruation in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast,” Journal of Women’s History 37, no. 1 (Spring 2025): 20-37. Read it here
JWH Prizes and Research Grants (2025)
The Journal of Women’s History Board of Trustees and Editorial Board congratulate the following scholars for their achievements in the field of women’s and gender history
Prizes
Tamika Nunley : Best Article published in 2024 for “The Intellectual World of Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Genius” Journal of Women’s History 36, 1 (Spring 2024): 105-128.
Emmanuel Davidson : Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper for “Dysphoria and Euphoria in the Lives of Christina of Markyate and Christina the Astonishing.”
Jessina Emmert : Honorable Mention for “The Home: Fancy Girls’ Fugitive Geographies in 19th-Century New Orleans.”
Research Grants
Divya Kannan : Scholars Research Grant to support the research project, “Between Conscience and Code: Missionary Women, Colonial Law, and the Age of Consent in Nineteenth-Century India.”
Misa Nguyen : Jean Quataert Dissertation Travel Grant to support the research project, “Mother, Heal Thyself: Pregnancy and Childbearing in Late Antique Rome.”
Prize and Grant Winners for the 2024-25 Cycle can be found here.
