The David Pinkney Prize is awarded annually by the Society for French Historical Studies for the best book on French history published by a North American scholar.

2007

Prof. Carol Symes, Dept. of History, University of Illinois, for  A Common Stage:  Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras (Cornell: Cornell University Press, 2007).

2006

Hans J. Hummer, Wayne State University for Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600-1000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Gregory Mann, Columbia University, for Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the Twentieth Century (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006).

2005

Jan Goldstein, Dept of History, University of Chicago, for The Post-Revolutionary Self: Politics and the Psyche in France, 1750-1850 (Harvard University Press).

2004

Laurent Dubois, Michigan State University, for A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

2003

Ronald Schechter, College of William and Mary, for Obstinate Hebrews: Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.

Honorable Mention:
Michael Bess, Vanderbilt University, for The Light-Green Society. Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

2002

Paul Friedland, Bowdoin College, Political Actors: Representative Bodies and Theatricality in the Age of the French Revolution (Cornell University Press, 2002)

2001

Frederic L. Cheyette, Emengard of Narbonne and the World of the Troubadours (Cornell University Press, 2001)

2000

Michael Kwass, Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

1999

Ruth Harris, Lourdes: Body and Spirit in a Secular Age (New York: Viking, 1999).

1998

John Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, Revolutionary Demands: A Content Analysis of the Cahiers de doléances of 1789 (Stanford University Press, 1998)

1997

Thomas Brennan, Burgundy to Champagne: The Wine Trade in Early Modern France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1997).

1996

John Markoff, The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996)

1995

Laura Lee Downs, Manufacturing Inequality: gender division in the French and British metalworking industries, 1914-1939 (Cornell University Press, 1995)

1994

David Bell (Yale University), Lawyers and Citizens: The Making of a Political Elite in Old Regime France (Oxford University Press, 1994)

1993

Sarah Maza (Northwestern University), Private Lives and Public Affairs: The Causes Celebres of Prerevolutionary France (University of California Press, 1993)

Lester Little (Smith College), Benedictine Maledictions: Liturgical Cursing in Romanesque France (Cornell University Press)

1991 and 1992

Raymond Grew and Patrick Harrigan, Schools, State, and Society (University of Michigan Press, 1991)

1989 and 1990

Jo Burr Margandant, Madame Le Professeur: Women Educators in the Third Republic (Princeton University Press, 1990)

Elizabeth Rapley, The Devotées: Women and Church in Seventeenth Century France (Queen's University Press, 1990)

Honorable Mention:
Carole Fink, Marc Bloch: A Life in History (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

1987 and 1988

Robert M. Schwartz, Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century France (University of North Carolina Press, 1988)

Honorable Mention:
Michael Marrinan, Painting Politics for Louis-Philippe (Yale University Press, 1988)