Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is a multi-award winning Historian. She has been the recipient of awards, grants and honouring titles throughout her academic career due to her outstanding work. Some of her awards include The Erminie Wheeler Voegelin Prize for the Best Book in Ethnohistory, 1993, from the American Society for Ethnohistory; Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 1997, from the Ministre de la Culture de France; and the Lifetime Achievement Award, 2019, from the Eudoxia Research Centre.
April, 2019. The SCONE Archivist Award, New York City.
2006. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. "We the People" for "Comparing Race, Ethnicity, Slavery and Freedom in French, Spanish, and Early American Louisiana" Book in progress.
2004. Distinguished Service Award, Organization of American Historians.
2004. International Advisory Board Award, Harriet Tubman Resource Center on the African Diaspora, York University, Toronto, Canada.
2001. Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History.
2001. Included in 2,000 Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century (Cambridge, England).
1997. Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters awarded by the Ministry of Culture of France.(Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministre de la Culture de France.)
1991-1996. Principal Investigator, "Africans in Spanish and Early American Louisiana," Collaborative Research Project, Division of Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, with Patrick Manning as co-investigator.
1994. Research grant from Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US universities.
1994. Research grant from the Ministry of Culture of France.
1997. George W. Lucas Community Service Award, New Orleans Chapter, NAACP.
1997. Elected Elder of the African Heritage Studies Society.
1997: One of the approximately 50 living women historians to be included in the bio- bibliographical reference work, American women historians, 1700s-1990s : a biographical dictionary. Jennifer Scanlon and Sharon Cosner, ed., American Women Historians from 1700 to the Present, (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1997).
1996. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award.
1994. Humanist of the Year, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
1993. John Hope Franklin Prize awarded by the American Studies Association.
1993. Willie Lee Rose Prize of the Southern Association for Women Historians.
1993. Elliott Rudwick Award of the Organization of American Historians.
1993. Theodore Saloutos Memorial Book Award in American Immigration History by the Immigration History Society.
1993. The Erminie Wheeler Voegelin Prize, the American Society for Ethnohistory, for the Best Book in Ethnohistory (honorable mention).
1993. American Association for State and Local History. Certificate of Commendation.
1993. Outstanding Book Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in the United States.
1993. Outstanding Academic Book of 1993, Choice Magazine.
1986-87. Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, University of Paris VIII, Paris, France
1987. Research lectures in French in Morocco, Senegal and Burkina Faso sponsored by the American Cultural Center and the Fulbright Commission of Morocco.
Foreword to Breaking the Chains, Making the Nation: The Black Cuban Fight for Freedom and Equality, 1812–1912, edited by Aisha Finch and Fannie Rushing. LSU Press 2019, xii-xiv.
Blacki Power Encyclopedia. From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings. Edited by Akinye Umoja, Karin L. Stamford and Jasmin A. Young. ”Communist International and Black Power,” Vol. 1, pp. 278-282. Greenwood. An Imprint of ABC-CLIO. Santa Barbara, CA and Denver, CO. 2018.
Igbo in the Atlantic World: African Origins and Diasporic Destinations, 135-146. Edited by Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku. Indiana Universiity Press, 2016.
Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, and Rebecca L. Hall. “Slave Trades.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History, edited by Lynn Dumenil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
“Africa and Africans in the African Diaspora: The Uses of Relational Databases.” American Historical Review Vol. 15, No.1 (February, 2010):136-150. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Portuguese version: África e africanos na diáspora africana: os usos de bancos de dados relacionais. December 2010.
Interview by Charles Henry Rowell. Published in Callaloo Vol. 29, No. 4 (2007):1049- 1055.
"The Franco-African Peoples of Haiti and Louisiana: Language, Religion, Culture, Revolution." In Revolutionary Freedoms: A History Of Survival, Strength, And Imagination In Haiti, edited by Cécile Accilien, 41-48. Coconut Creek, FL: Caribbean Studies Press, 2006.
“Slave Law.” In Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2 nd ed., edited by Colin Palmer. Detroit: MacMillan Reference USA, 2006. 6 vols.
"Cruzando o Atlântico: etnias africanas nas Américas." Topoi Vol. 6, No. 10 ( Jan.-June., 2005): 29-70.
"Historical Memory, Consciousness and Conscience in the New Millennium." Plenary address at symposium about the 300th anniversary of the first French colonization of Louisiana.
In Greater French Colonial Louisiana: Atlantic World Perspective, Concluding Chapter, edited by Bradley Bond, 291-309. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005.
"The Meanings of Mina." In Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora, edited by Paul Lovejoy and David Trotman, 65-81. London and New York: Continuum Press, 2003.
"In search of the Invisible Senegambians : the Louisiana Slave Database (1723-1820)." In Saint-Louis et l'Esclavage, Actes du symposium international sur la traite négrière à Saint-Louis du Sénégal et dans son arrière-pays, Saint-Louis, 18, 19 et 20 décembre 1998, edited by Djibril Samb, 237-64. IFAN (Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noir, Dakar, Senegal) : Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Initiations et Etudes Africaines N° 39, February 2001. "Esclaves martiniquais en Louisiane colonial." Proceedings of conference organized by the Departmental Archives of Martinique in December, 1998. In Les abolitions dans les Amérique. Martinique: Société des Amis des Archives de la Martinique, 2001.
"Myths About Creole Culture in Louisiana: Slaves, Africans, Blacks, Mixed Bloods, and Caribbeans. " Cultural Vistas Vol. 12, No. 2 (Summer, 2001): 78-89.
"African Women in French and Spanish Louisiana." In The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, edited by Catherine Clinton and Michelle Gillespie. Oxford University Press, 1997.
"Relations raciales en Louisiane coloniale. Politique estatique et attitudes populaires." In Colonies, territoires, societes. L'enjeu francais, edited by Alain Saussel et Joseph Zitomersky. Paris: l'Harmattan, 1996.
"The Formation of Afro-Creole Culture." In Creole New Orleans: Race and Americanization, edited by Arnold Hirsch and Joseph Logsdon, 58-90. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
"El Diablo en el Caribe: los dos primeros siglos de colonizacion." Del Caribe Vol. 14 (1989): 8-70. This is a publication of the Casa del Caribe in Santiago de Cuba.
"Raza y libertad: La manumisión de los esclavos rurales de la Luisiana bajo la jurisdicción del capitan general de Cuba." Anuario de estudios americanos Vol. XLIII, Seville (1986): 365-376
“Socialism and Political Democracy: Recent Developments in the People's Republic of China,” International Human Rights: Contemporary Issues. Coedited by Jack L. Nelson and Vera M. Green. Stanfordville: Human Rights Publishing Group, Earl M. Coleman Enterprises, Inc., 1980. pp. 185-198.
"Negro Slaves in the Americas", Freedomways , Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer 1964, pp. 296–327.
"Detroit's Moment of Truth", Freedomways, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 1967.
"St. Malcolm and the Black Revolutionist", Negro Digest, November 1967.
"Black Resistance in Colonial Haiti", Negro Digest, February 1968.
"Race and Class in Brazil", Freedomways, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Winter, 1968).
"The Myth of Benevolent Spanish Slave Laws", Negro Digest, March 1969.
"Africans in the Americas", Negro Digest, March 1969.
"Rural, Black College", Negro Digest, March 1969.
"Junkie Myths", Inner City Voice July 1969.
"Mechanisms for Exploiting the Black Community", Parts 1 and 2, Negro Digest, October and November 1969.
"What Toussaint L'Ouverture Can Teach Us", Black World, February 1972.
Escravidão e etnias africanas nas Américas: Restaurando os elos. Editora Vozes Limitados, November 2017, 360 pps. Portugese translation of Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links.
Editor, A Black Communist in the Freedom Struggle: The Life of Harry Haywood. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005; Paperback edition 2007.
Editor, Love, War, and the 96th Engineers (colored): The New Guinea Diaries of Captain Hyman Samuelson During World War II. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
Africans in Colonial Louisiana: the Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century.
Baton Rouge: L.S.U Press, 1992; paperback edition, 1995.