Sarah Haley has been awarded the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for women’s history and/or feminist theory from the American Historical Association for No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2016).

“Established in 1984 and named in memory of Joan Kelly (1928–82), this prize is awarded annually for the book in women’s history and/or feminist theory that best reflects the high intellectual and scholarly ideals exemplified by the life and work of Joan Kelly. The prize was established by the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession and the Conference Group on Women’s History (now the Coordinating Council for Women in History), and is administered by the American Historical Association.”

Source: http://blog.historians.org/2017/10/american-historical-association-announces-2017-prize-winners/