Jensen-Miller Award

Overview

Western History Association

The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands. Our mission is to cultivate the broadest appreciation of this diverse history. To accomplish this mission we:

* Enable collaborations among peoples, institutions, and organizations devoted to the study of western history.
* Conduct an annual conference at which western history teachers, scholars, and professionals share their research and exchange ideas that facilitate further study of the North American West.
* Publish an award-winning journal that employs rigorous peer reviews to identify, improve, and distribute original western history scholarship.
* Promote public education on western history through active involvement with teachers, museums, non profit organizations, libraries, and other venues.

Jensen-Miller Award

The Western History Association offers the Jensen-Miller Award for the best article in the field of women and gender in the North American West. No time period restrictions apply, and essays will be judged on their significance to the field, their contributions to knowledge and their literary quality. The Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University funds this $500 cash prize and provides a plaque to the author of the winning essay. The Coalition for Western Women's History began awarding the Jensen-Award Miller in 1990 and administered the prize until the WHA became the award facilitator in 2009.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Any WHA member, publisher, or author of an essay/article may nominate work that was published in previous calendar year.