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&#160;The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians has announced the 2011 Berks Article and Book Prizes. Find descriptions of the winning works here.Berks Article Prize Winners Best article published in any field of history by a woman who is normally resident in North America:Agnes Kefeli for “The Tale of Joseph and Zulaykha on the Volga Frontier:  The Struggle for Gender, Religious, and National Identity in Imperial and Postrevolutionary Russia,” Slavic Review 70, no. 2 (Summer 2011).&#160;Best article in the fields of the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality by a woman who is normally resident in North America:Betty Luther Hillman for “’The most profoundly revolutionary act a homosexual can engage in’: Drag and the Politics of Gender Presentation in the San Francisco Gay Liberation Movement, 1964-1972,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 20, no. 1 (January 2011).&#160;Berks Book Prize WinnersBest first book published in any field of history by a woman who is normally resident in North America:Kate Ramsey for The Spirits and the Law: Vodou and Power In Haiti (University of Chicago Press, 2011).&#160;Best first book published in the fields of the history of women, gender, and/or sexuality in 2011 by a woman who is normally resident in North America:Kate Haulman for The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2011).