Brianna Theobald scores unusual 鈥榟at trick鈥� of academic accolades for her book on Native women鈥檚 reproductive histories and activism.
, an assistant professor of history at the聽人妻少妇专区, has won a third award for her first book,聽聽(University of North Carolina Press, 2019). In November, the awarded Theobald the which鈥攅stablished in 1981鈥攊s given annually for the best book-length contribution to the field of ethnohistory.
鈥淚鈥檓 honored that聽Reproduction on the Reservation聽is in the company of the truly excellent works of scholarship that have received the Wheeler-Voegelin Award in recent years,鈥� says Theobald. At the virtual award ceremony the president of the American Society for Ethnohistory, , a professor of history and gender, sexuality, and feminist studies at , highlighted Theobald鈥檚 extensive field work on the Crow Reservation. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 especially meaningful to me because I view Crow women鈥檚 stories as the heart of the book,鈥� says Theobald.
The Rochester historian earlier won two other prizes for her monograph鈥攖he聽聽from the Western History Association and the聽聽from the Coalition for Western Women鈥檚 History.
Reproduction on the Reservation聽traces the history of reproductive health care and reproductive politics on reservations during the last century, including what鈥檚 now considered a notorious period in the 1970s, when US doctors sterilized an estimated 25 to 42 percent of Native American women of childbearing age, some as young as 15, often without the women鈥檚 consent.
鈥淗istorical research and writing at its finest,鈥� is how , professor and chair of the Rochester聽, characterizes Theobald鈥檚 book. 鈥淗er pathbreaking work on reproduction and childbearing by Native American women challenges existing categories and eschews reductionist interpretations, all in accessible, beautifully crafted prose.鈥�
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