2008 Award Winners
Ray and Pat Browne Awards
Focused Study
2008: Jacob J. Podber
The Electronic Front Porch: An Oral History of the Arrival of Modern Media
in Rural Appalachia and the Melungeon Community
Mercer University Press – 2007
Edited Collection
2008: Tiffany Potter and C. W. Marshall, Editors
Cylons In America:Critical Studies in Battlestar Galactica
Continuum – 2007
Reference
2008: Gary Hoppenstand, Series Editor
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture
{6 Volume Set} Publisher – Greenwood Press 2007.
Vol. 1) North America [U.S. and Canada]
Michael K. Schoenecke, Editor
Vol. 2) Latin America [Central America, South America and the Caribbean]
John F. Bratzel, Editor
Vol. 3) Europe [British Isles, Western and Eastern Europe]
Gerd Bayer, Editor
Vol. 4) North Africa and the Middle East
Lynn Bartholome, Editor
Vol. 5) Sub-Saharan Africa
Dennis Hickey, Editor
Vol. 6) Asia and Pacific Oceania [inc. Australia, New Zealand, etc.]
Gary Xu, Editor
Susan Koppelman Award
Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott,
After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art
Prestel Publishing, 2007.
Merri Lisa Johnson, ed., Third Wave Feminism and Television: Jane Puts
it in a Box. London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd (distributed by Palgrave
Macmillan in U.S.), 2007.
Emily Toth Award
T. Denban Sharpley-Whiting
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women
NYU Press, 2007
Joyce Antler
You Never Call! You Never Write: A History of the Jewish Mother
Oxford University Press, 2007
Cawelti Award
Edgerton, Gary R.
The Columbia History of American Television.
Columbia University Press, 2007.
Runners Up
Leroy Ashby. With Amusement for All. A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830
University Press of Kentucky, 2006
Andrew Andrejevic, iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era.
University Press of Kansas, 2007
Peter Rollins Film Award
Jan Krawitz Big Enough (2004), first-place winner
Carlo Cubero Mangrove Music (2006), honorable mention/second place.
Journal Awards
Carl Bode Award
The winner of the Bode Award for this year is “Consumer Activism, Commercialism, and Curriculum Choices: Advertising in Schools in the 1930s. by Inger L. Stole (Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois) and Rebecca Livesay (independent scholar and consumer advocate). The Journal of American Culture, March 2007.
The honorable mention goes to Floyd Chueng (Associate Professor of English and American Studies at Smith College) for “Anxious and Ambivalent Representations: Nineteenth-Century Images of Chinese American Men.” The Journal of American Culture, September 2007.
Russel B. Nye Award
The winner of the Nye Award for the best article in the Journal of Popular Culture in 2007 is
Francis Martin, Jr. for “To Ignore is to Deny: E. W. Kemble’s Racial Caricature as Popular Art”
Volume 40, Number 4.
William E. Brigman Award
William E. Brigman Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in Popular Culture 2008
Jodi Larson (Department of History, Tuffs): “American Tune: Postwar Campaign Songs in a Changing Nation“
William M. Jones Award
William M. Jones Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in American Culture, 2008
Vicki Willis: “Be-In-Tween The Spa[ ]ces: The Location and Subversion of Women in Jazz”