Brianna Theobald scores unusual ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½˜hat trickÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™ of academic accolades for her book on Native womenÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s reproductive histories and activism.

, an assistant professor of history at the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½, has won a third award for her first book,  (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). In November, the awarded Theobald the whichÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”established in 1981ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”is given annually for the best book-length contribution to the field of ethnohistory.
ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½œIÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™m honored that Reproduction on the Reservation is in the company of the truly excellent works of scholarship that have received the Wheeler-Voegelin Award in recent years,ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½� 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 TheobaldÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s extensive field work on the Crow Reservation. ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½œThatÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s especially meaningful to me because I view Crow womenÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s stories as the heart of the book,ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½� says Theobald.
The Rochester historian earlier won two other prizes for her monographÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½”the  from the Western History Association and the  from the Coalition for Western WomenÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s History.
Reproduction on the Reservation traces the history of reproductive health care and reproductive politics on reservations during the last century, including whatÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s 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 womenÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s consent.
ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½œHistorical research and writing at its finest,ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½� is how , professor and chair of the Rochester , characterizes TheobaldÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s book. ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½œHer pathbreaking work on reproduction and childbearing by Native American women challenges existing categories and eschews reductionist interpretations, all in accessible, beautifully crafted prose.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½�
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Accolades for work tracing Native womenÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½™s reproductive histories and their activism.ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ history professor Brianna Theobald wins two prizes for her first book.
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