2022 Eugen Weber Book Prize Winner
The UCLA Department of History is pleased to announce that
JUDITH G. COFFIN,
Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2022 Weber Book Award. A prize for the best book in modern French history (post 1815) over the previous two years, this award is named for the eminent UCLA French historian Eugen Weber (1925-2007) and brings a cash award of $15,000.
Judith G. Coffin’s beautifully written book, Sex, Love, and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir, explores the neglected archive of letters written to Simone de Beauvoir by ordinary women and men. This innovative cultural history examines the twentieth century as an embodied experience, showing the intimate connections between the geopolitical and the personal.
The winning author will be invited to visit UCLA to speak about her work and receive the prize during the spring of 2022.
Honorable Mention
Camille Fauroux, Associate Professor of History, Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès
Produire la guerre, produire le genre: Des Françaises au travail dans l’Allemagne nationale-socialiste (1940-1945)
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Assistant Professor of French, University of Michigan Romance Languages and Literature
Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire
John Warne Monroe, Associate Professor of History, Iowa State University
Metropolitan Fetish: African Sculpture and the Imperial French Invention of Primitive Art
Andrew Israel Ross, Assistant Professor of History, Loyola University Maryland
Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Claire Zalc, Professor of History, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Denaturalized: How Thousands Lost Their Citizenship and Lives in Vichy France
