This award honours the pioneering work of Canadian historian Neil Sutherland in the history of children and youth by recognizing outstanding contributions to the field. The prize is given out on a biennial basis under the auspices of the History of Children and Youth Group of the Canadian Historical Association.
Sutherland Prize Winners
2010 Ellen Boucher. “The Limits of Potential: Race, Welfare, and the Interwar Extension of Child Emigration to Southern Rhodesia” Journal of British Studies 48 (October 2009): 914-934. Boucher skillfully mixes narrative with interpretation, developing a well-crafted, engaging, accessible piece of scholarship. The committee was particularly impressed with the subtlety and range of Boucher's use of evidence. She deftly worked back-and-forth between her case study of the Rhodesia Fairbridge Memorial Association and larger developments in child welfare, child psychology, empire building, and other global processes of modernity. She accomplished this impressive feat without losing the thread or persuasiveness of the argument. Her discussion of how race and class hierarchies in Empire limit the "potential" of children has widespread implications in her particular study of British colonialism in Africa and in other historical contexts. ______________________________________________________________________ 2008 Rhonda L. Hinther. "'Raised in the Spirit of Class Struggle': Children, Youth, and the Interwar Ukrainian Left in Canada," Labour/Le travail, vol. 60 (Fall 2007). The prize committee noted: "We found it very solidly researched, well-grounded in, and balancing of, diverse literatures, and useful in addressing the experience and decision-making of the young people themselves." HONOURABLE MENTION / MENTION HONORABLE Stephen Robertson. "'Boys, of Course, Cannot be Raped': Age, Homosexuality and the Redefinition of Sexual Violence in New York City, 1880-1955," Gender and History, vol. 18,2 (August 2006). |