Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize


The Margaret W. Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize is awarded by the History of Science Society for an outstanding book or article on the history of women in science. It is named after Professor Margaret W. Rossiter, a pioneer in the field of the role of women in science.

Recipients

Source:
YearWinnerWork
1987Regina Markell Morantz-SanchezSympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine.
1988Pnina Abir-AmSynergy or Clash: Disciplinary and Marital Strategies in the Career of Mathematical Biologist Dorothy Wrinch, in Uneasy Careers and Intimate Lives, edited by Pnina Abir-Am and Dorinda Outram
1989Joan MarkA Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians.
1990Ann Hibner Koblitz"Science, Women, and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Generation of the 1860s," Isis, 1988, 79: 208-226.
1991Martha H. VerbruggeAble-Bodied Womenhood: Personal Health and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Boston.
1992Judith CoffinSocial Science Meets Sweated Labor: Reinterpreting Women's Work in Late Nineteenth-century France
1993Barbara DudenThe Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor's Patients in Eighteenth-Century Germany.
1994Londa SchiebingerWhy Mammals Are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eighteenth-Century National History, American Historical Review, 1993, 98: 382-411.
1995Elizabeth LunbeckThe Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern America.
1996Ida StamhuisA Female Contribution to Early Genetics: Tine Tammes and Mendel's Laws for Continuous Characters, Journal of the History of Biology, 1995, 28: 495-531.
1997Margaret W. RossiterWomen Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972.
1998Mary TerrallÉmilie du Chätelet and the Gendering of Science, History of Science, 1995, 33: 283-310.
1999Linda J. LearRachel Carson: Witness for Nature.
2000Naomi OreskesObjectivity or Heroism? On the Invisibility of Women in Science, Osiris, 1996, 11: 87-113.
2001Charlotte FurthA Flourishing Yin: Chinese Medical History, 960-1665.
2002Ruth Oldenziel"Multiple-Entry Visas: Gender and Engineering in the U.S., 1870-1945," in Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges: Comparing the History of Women Engineers, 1870s-1990s, eds. Annie Canel, Ruth Oldenziel, and Karin Zachmann, pp. 11-50.
2003Ellen Singer MoreRestoring the Balance: Women Physicians and the Profession of Medicine, 1850-1995.
2004Paula FindlenThe Scientist's Body: The Nature of Woman Philosopher in Enlightenment Italy in The Faces of Nature in Enlightenment Europe,, pp. 211-236.
2005Kathleen Broome WilliamsImprobable Warriors: Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II, The Naval Institute Press.
2006Arleen TuchmanSituating Gender, Isis, March 2004, volume 85, no.1.
2007Katharine ParkSecrets of Women: Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection, Zone Books
2008Sara Stidstone GronimWhat Jane Knew: A Woman Botanist in the Eighteenth Century,, Journal of Women's History 2007, volume 19, no. 3.
2009Monica H. GreenMaking Women's Medicine Masculine. The Rise of Male Authority in Pre-Modern Gynaecology.
2010Marsha L. RichmondThe 'Domestication' of Heredity: The Familial Organization of Geneticists at Cambridge University, 1895-1910.
2011Yi-Li WuReproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China.
2012Peter Kastor and Conevery ValenciusSacagawea’s Cold: Pregnancy and the Written Record of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,.
2013Sally Gregory KohlstedtTeaching Children Science: Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930,.
2014Kimberly A. HamlinThe ‘Case of a Bearded Woman’: Hypertrichosis and the Construction of Gender in the Age of Darwin, American Quarterly 63, no. 4 : 985-81.
2015Amy Sue Bix Girls Coming to Tech! A History of American Engineering Education for Women
2016Paola BertucciThe In/visible Woman: Mariangela Ardinghelli and the Circulation of Knowledge between Paris and Naples in the Eighteenth Century Isis, Vol. 104, No. 2, pp. 226-249.
2017Laura Micheletti PuacaSearching for Scientific Womanpower: Technocratic Feminism and the Politics of National Security, 1940-1980 .
2018Kara SwansonRubbing Elbows and Blowing Smoke: Gender, Class, and Science in the Nineteenth-Century Patent Office, Isis 108, no. 1 : 40-61.
2019Elaine LeongRecipes and Everyday Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and the Household in Early Modern England,.