For the best article in labor and political history in the Pacific Historical Review or published elsewhere by a PCB-AHA member:
2025 Iker Saitua, the University of the Basque Country, for “‘Labor Freezing’: Spanish-Basque Immigrants, Mexican Labor, and the Sheepherder Shortage in the American West during the Second World War,” Pacific Historical Review in Spring 2024.
2024 Lori A. Flores (State University of New York, Stony Brook), for “Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine.” Journal of American History (March 2023)
(Honorable Mention: Cameron White (University of Technology, Sydney),”Burned by the Torch of the Incendiary: A Pyro-History of Gold Rush San Francisco and the Lynching of Sydney Migrants.” Pacific Historical Review [Fall 2023])
2023 Daniel Kim (California State University, Fresno), for “Refashioning Feminity in Colonial Korea: Kang Hyang-nan, Short Hair, and the Women’s Tonsorial Rebellion of 1920s Korea.” Pacific Historical Review (Fall 2022)
2022 P. James Paligutan (San Diego State University and San Diego Mesa College), for “American Dream Deferred: An Oral History of Filipino Servants in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, 1952-1974,” Pacific Historical Review (Spring 2021)
2021 Thomas C. Field, Jr. (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), for “Union Busting as Development: Transnationalism, Empire, and Kennedy’s Secret Labour Programme for Bolivia,” Journal of Latin American Studies (February 2020)
2020 Benjamin Madley (University of California, Los Angeles), for “California’s First Mass Incarceration System: Franciscan Mission, California Indians, and Penal Servitude, 1769-1836,” Pacific Historical Review (Spring 2019)
