The Society awards a number of prizes each year, recognising and rewarding excellence amongst undergraduate and postgraduate students, early career researchers, and authors of books in the field of French studies.
The Society owes its three R. H. Gapper prize to the generosity of the Gapper Charitable Trust, founded by Richard Gapper (1943–2014). Richard was involved in the Society for French Studies for many years, beginning in the mid-1990s. Not just an assiduous participant in the Society’s annual conference, he was Honorary Treasurer of the Society from 1997 to 2000, and a long-standing member of its Finance Committee.