Awards
Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article
The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and medical histories in English. The author(s) of the winning article will receive $300 and a featured interview on the blog about the article.
Submissions are open for the 2026 prize. Articles published in 2025 are eligible, and self-nominations are encouraged. Any Nursing Clio reader or writer is eligible, with the exception of NC staff. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 2026.
To submit an article for consideration, please send two PDFs of the article: the original publication and a version with identifying information (including author name and journal title) removed to prize@nursingclio.org. Winners will be announced in July.
Send inquiries and submissions to committee co-chairs Laura Ansley and Minji Lee at prize@nursingclio.org.
2026 Prize Committee members: Diana W. Anselmo, Elise Mitchell, and Lisa W. Smith; Laura Ansley and Minji Lee (co-chairs)
2025
Winner: Cathy McClive and Lisa W. Smith, “Women at the Centre: Medical Entrepreneurialism and ‘La Grande Médicine’ in Eighteenth-Century Lyon,” French History, Volume 38, Issue 1, March 2024, pp. 11-27.
Read the interview with Cathy and Lisa about their article.
Honorable Mention: Elise Mitchell, “The ‘Practitioner of Physick and Surgery’ and the Enslaved ‘Doctor’: Medicine, Slavery, Race, and Patriarchy in the Eighteenth-Century Jamaica,” Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies, Volume 11, Issue 2, Number 8, November 2024, pp. 155-182.
2024
Winner: Debra Blumenthal, “As [Healthy] Women Should’: Enslaved Women, Medical Experts, and ‘Hidden’ Menstrual Disorders in Late Medieval Mediterranean Slave Markets,” The American Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 4, December 2023, pp. 1558–1586.
Honorable Mention: Cara Delay, “In All Circumstances’: Home Births and Collaborative Health Care in Ireland, 1900-1950,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 97, Number 3, Fall 2023, pp. 394-422.
Read the interview with Cara about this article.
2023
Winner: Courtney E. Thompson, “Child-Mothers and Invisible Fathers: The Paradox of ‘Precocious Maternity’ and the Pervasiveness of Child Sexual Abuse in Nineteenth-Century America,” Journal of Women’s History, Volume 34, Number 4, Winter 2022, pp. 125-146
Read the interview with Courtney about this article.
Honorable Mention: Hannah Katherine Hicks, “A Conjure Woman in Court: African American Conjurers as Health Practitioners and Performative Poisoners in the Post-Emancipation South,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 96, Number 4, Winter 2022, pp. 639-660
2022
Winner: Elizabeth O’Brien, “The Many Meanings of Aborto: Pregnancy Termination and the Instability of a Medical Category over Time,” Women’s History Review 30, no. 6 (2021): 952–970.
Read the interview with Elizabeth about this article.
Honorable Mention: Rachel Elder, “White Suits and Kangaroo Kills: Making Men’s Careers in American Nursing,” Gender and History 34, no. 1 (March 2022): 153-178.
Honorable Mention: Adria L. Imada, “Family History as Disability History: Native Hawaiians Surviving Medical Incarceration,” Disability Studies Quarterly 41, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 1-27.
2021
Winner: Carla Cevasco, “‘Look’d Like Milk’: Colonialism and Infant Feeding in the English Atlantic World,” Journal of Early American History 10, no. 2–3 (2020): 147–178.
Read the interview with Carla about this article.
Honorable Mention: Sarah Mellors, “The Trouble with Rubbers: A History of Condoms in Modern China,” NAN NÜ, 20, no. 1 (2020): 150–178.
2020
Winner: Wangui Muigai, “‘Something Wasn’t Clean’: Black Midwifery, Birth, and Postwar Medical Education in All My Babies,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 93, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 82–113.
Read the interview with Wangui about this article.
Honorable Mention: Travis Weisse, “‘Alone in a Sea of Rib-Tips’: Alvenia Fulton, Natural Health, and the Politics of Soul Food,” Journal of the History of Medicine and the Allied Sciences 74, no. 3 (July 2019): 292–315.
