The Gould-Saunders Memorial Endowment Award was established in 2008 by two long-standing ACH members, Virginia Gould and Gail Saunders, in memory of their late husbands, Geoffry L Gould, M.D. and Winston Saunders, CMG, respectively. Its purpose is to provide assistance for graduate students and in some cases junior scholars to attend the ACH conference.

Past recipients:

2026: Zakiya Doyle, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, “‘I learned the art of running away to perfection’—Enslaved children and resistance in Barbados, 1780-1834” AND Nyala Thompson Grunwald, University of Cambridge, “No Man’s Land: Mangrove lands, waters, and the histories of marine zones between Trinidad and Tobago”

2025: Samantha Hosein, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, “Behind Closed Doors: Unveiling the Realities of Asylum Nursing at the St Ann’s Mental Hospital in Colonial Trinidad” AND Shivalli Ragbir, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine,“Female Invisibility within the Justice System: Crimes Against Women in Trinidad 1900-1962”

2024: Laura De Moya-Guerra, Rutgers University, “The Chinese in the Barranquilla (Colombia) Carnival: Gender and Diplomacy 1960-1980”

2023: Christopher Montague, Northwestern University, “Self-Government and White Sovereignty: The Black Marxist Critique of Colonialism in Jamaica” AND Arti Ramsaroop, University of the West Indies – St. Augustine, “The Vertical Dimension of African-Caribbean Mutual Aid Societies and Benevolent Associations in Harlem, 1900-1964: African and Caribbean Influences.”

2019: Anne’el Bain, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine Campus, “Una Amsted Equitativa: Exchanges of Support among Cuba, Grenada and Nicaragua, 1975-1990”

2018: Rikki Bettinger, University of Houston, “Comparative Reproductions: The Family in Women’s Travel Writings in the Circum-Caribbean, 1800-60”

2017: Jamie L. H. Goodall, Stevenson University, “Piracy, Slavery and Clandestine Trade: Transitioning to a Plantation Economy in the Caribbean Atlantic”

2016: Jessica Pierre-Louis, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane AIHP/ GEODE, “Wealth and Racial Categorization of the Free people of Color in Martinique in the Eighteenth Century.”

2015: Deidre Myers, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, “Law, Policy, and the Environment: Environmental Law and Policy History of Wetlands in Barbados”

2014: Afi Martin, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, “When Black Power met Socialism: Women in the New-Left and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1972-1979”

2013: Renee Nelson, University of the West Indies, Mona, “The West Indian Press and the Federal Idea: 1948-1957”

2012: Amy Borgansky, Bard Graduate Center, “The Culture of Cloth in the Eighteenth-Century West Indies”

2011: Eric Otremba, University of Minnesota, “Engines and Canes: Caribbean Sugar Mills within Transatlantic Scientific Correspondence”