Susanne Klausen Awarded Women’s History Prize

The Journal of Women’s History has chosen an article submitted by the Department of History’s Susanne Klausen as the best it has published in 2009 and 2010.

Klausen’s article ‘Reclaiming the White Daughter’s Purity’: Afrikaner Nationalism, Racialized Sexuality, and the 1975 Abortion and Sterilization Act in Apartheid South Africa is the first to be awarded by the Journal of Women’s History.  The prize also includes a monetary award of $5,000 and the opportunity to attend the Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at the University of Massachusetts.

According to the Journal’s Editorial Board, Klausen’s article best represented its award criteria which specified the work must “make(s) a significant contribution to the international field of women’s history by incorporating a comparative dimension, considering contexts beyond its main geographical and temporal focus, employing methodologies that demonstrate historical interconnections across time and space, and/or advancing feminist theories in women’s history.”

Klausen was presented with the award at the conference on Saturday, June 11, 2011.