The Gilbert Chinard Prize is an annual award made jointly by the Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut Français de Washington for the best book on the history of themes shared by France and the Americas.

2008

Prof. Vanessa Schwartz, It’s So French!:  Hollywood, Paris, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Film Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007).

2007

John Garrigus, University of Texas-Arlington, for Before Haiti Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

2006

Stacy Schiff, for A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Brith of America (Henry Holt and Co.).

2005

Allan Greer, University of Toronto, for Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

2004

Brent Hayes Edwards, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).

2003

Mark Hulliung, Brandeis University, Citizens and Citoyens: Republicans and Liberals in America and France (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2002).

2002

Irwin M. Wall, University of California, Riverside, France, the United States, and the Algerian War (Univ. of California Press, 2001)

2001

Jacques Portes, Université de Paris VIII, Fascination and Misgivings: The United States in French Opinion, 1870-1914. Translated by Elborg Forster (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).

2000

Samuel Scott, History Department, Wayne State University, From Yorktown to Valmy (University of Colorado Press, 1999) .

1999

Philip Katz, N.Y. Council for the Humanities, From Appomattox to Montmartre: Americans and the Paris Commune (Harvard University Press, 1998).

1998

Nancy Green, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Ready to Wear, Ready to Work: A Century of Industrialization and Immigration in New York and Paris

1997

Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Lafayette in Two Worlds: Public Culture and Personal Identities in an Age of Revolutions (UNC Press, 1996).

1996

Laura Meixner, Cornell University, French Realist Painting and the Critique of American Society, 1856-1900 (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

1995

Elisa C. Klaus, Every Child a Lion: The Origins of maternal and Infant Health Policy in the United States and France, 1890-1920 (Cornell University Press, 1993).

1994

No prize awarded

1993

Richard Kuisel, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization (Universtiy of California Press, 1993).

1992

No prize awarded

1991

Irwin M. Wall, University of California-Riverside, The United States and the Making of Postwar France, 1945-1954 (Cambridge University Press, 1991).

1990

No prize awarded

1989

Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University, Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism (Harvard University Press, 1988).

1988

No prize awarded

1987

Robert S. Weddle, Editor, La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Gulf: Three Primary Documents (Texas A&M University Press, 1987).

1986

Carl J. Ekberg, Illinois State University, Colonial Ste. Genevieve: An Adventure on the Mississippi Frontier (Patrice Press, 1985).

1985

James Axtell, College of William and Mary, The Invasion Within: The Contect of Cultures in Colonial North America (Oxford University Press, 1985).

1984

Patricia Kay Galloway, Mississippi Department Archives, Editor for volumes IV and V of Mississippi Provincial Archives: French Dominion, 1729-1748, 1749-1763 (LSU Press, 1984).

1983

Jon Butler, Yale, The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society (Harvard University Press, 1983)

1982

Orville T. Murphy, State University of New York at Buffalo, Charles Fravier, Comte de Vergennes: French Diplomacy in the Age of Revolution, 1719-1787 (State University of New York Press, 1982).

1981

John G. Reid, Acadia, Maine, and New Scotland: Marginal Colonies in the Seventeenth Century (University of Toronto Press, 1981).

1980

James H. Hutson, John Adams and the Diplomacy of the American Revolution, (University of Kentucky Press)

G.C. Incentive Prize: Robert R. Crout, "The Diplomacy of Trade: The Influence of Commercial Considerations on French Involvement in the Anglo-American War of Independence, 1775-1778" (dissertation).

1979

Stanley J. Idzerda, Editor-in-chief of the Lafayette Papers, Cornell University Library, Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution: Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790 (Cornell University Press, 1983).

G.C. Incentive Prize: Edward Angel, "James Monroe's Mission to Paris, 1794-1796" (dissertation).

1978

Jay Higginbotham, Local History Section of the Mobile Public Library, Old Mobile: Fort Louis de la Louisiane, 1702-1711 (Museum of the City of Mobile, 1977).

G.C. Incentive Prize: Thomas A. Sancton, Oxford University, "Red, White, and Blue: A Study of the American Image in the Eyes of the French Left, 1848-1871."

1977

Lee Kennett, University of Georgia, The French Forces in America 1780-1783 (Greenwood Press, 1977).

1976

No prize awarded

Honorable Mention: Howard C. Rice, Thomas Jefferson's Paris (Princeton University Press, 1976).

1975

Jonathan A. Dull, University of Texas, The French Navy and American Independence: A Study of Arms and Diplomacy, 1774-1787 (Princeton University Press, 1976).

Stephen A. Schuker, Cambridge, Massachusettes, The End of French Dominance in Europe (UNC Press)

Honorable Mention: Henry Blumenthal, Rutgers University, American and French Culture, 1800 to 1900: Interchanges of Arts, Science, Literature, and Society (LSU Press, 1976).
Russell M. Jones, Westminster College, "The Parisian Education of an American Surgeon, 832-1835."

1974

Albert Hall Bowman, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, The Struggle for Neutrality: Franco-American Diplomacy in the Federalist Era (University of Tennessee Press, 1974).

G.C. Incentive Prize: Melvin B. Leffler, Vanderbilt University, "The Struggle for Stability: America Policy toward France, 1921-1933."

1973

William J. Eccles, University of Toronto, France in America (Harper & Row, 1972).

Jacob Price, University of Michigan, France and the Chesapeake: A History of the French Tobacco Monopoly, 1574-1791, and Its Relationship to the British and American Tobacco Trades (University of Michigan Press, 1973, 2 vols).

G.C. Incentive Prize: James T. Schlefer, College of New Rochelle, "The Making of Tocqueville's American (manuscript).

1972

Howard C. Rice, Jr., and Anne S. K. Brown, The American Campaigns of Rochambeau's Army, 1780-1783 (Princetown University Press and Brown University Press).

1971

Nancy Nichols Barker, The French Legation in Texas (Texas State Historical Association, 2 vols).

1970

Laura V. Monti, chair of special collections section of University of Florida library, to support the publication of a detailed inventory of the Rochambeau Papers.

1969

No prize awarded

1968

Daniel Carroll, Villanova University, "Henri Mercier's Diplomatic Mission to Washington" (manuscript, subsequently published as Henri Mercier and the American Civil War).

1967

William C. Stinchcombe, Syracuse University, "French-American Alliance in American Politics, 1778-1783" (manuscript, subsequently published as The American Revolution and the French Alliance).