Sarah's recent book Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies was awarded the 2017 Gita Chaudhuri Prize at the Western Association of Women Historians Conference in San Diego on April 27. This prize is for the best monograph about the history of women in rural environments in any era and place in the world.
From the Judging Committee:
"Sarah Carter's ambitious study of British women's empire building on the Canadian plains takes a truly multi-national approach to questions of women's place on the land, dealing as it does with policies and ideologies in Britain, Canada, the U.S., and elsewhere. It does an impressive job of examining the concept of "whiteness", and it appropriately fits the spirit of the Chaudhuri award, focusing as it does specifically on "WOMEN in rural environments". "
Sarah was honoured at the WAWH banquet in San Diego. Congratulations Sarah from the Department of History and Classics!