This month, SCPS Associate Professor Sara Kimble was awarded the DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History for her article "The Genocide Convention is “Our Cause": International Women’s Advocacy for the Criminalization of Genocide". 

The article was published in the Winter 2024 edition of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and was lauded for its thorough discussion of the often overlooked role women’s organizations played in the establishment of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

The Peace History Society awards the DeBenedetti Prize in Peace History award for English language journal articles, book chapters, or book introductions on peace history.  The award is given out twice each year, and comes with a modest financial reward.

Professor Kimble researches the history of women and law with an emphasis on the legal profession in France, international networks, and political engagement. She has also studied methods for teaching Holocaust history at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Illinois Holocaust Educational Foundation.