2009 Award Winners
RAY AND PAT BROWNE AWARDS
Ray and Pat Browne Award for Single Authored Work:
Gerard J. DeGroot
The Sixties Unplugged: A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade
Harvard University Press, 2008
Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection:
Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor, Editors
Why We Fought: America’s Wars in Film and History
University Press of Kentucky, 2008
Ray and Pat Browne Award Reference/Primary Source Work:
Benjamin Heber Johnson, Jeffrey Gusky and Luis Alberto Urrea
Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place
Yale University Press
Susan Koppelman Award for Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies
Laura E. Garcia, Sandra M. Gutierrez and Felicitas Nunez, Editors
Teatro Chicana: A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
University of Texas Press, 2008
Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies
Maria Raha
Hellions: Pop Culture’s Rebel Women
Seal Press, 2008
Cawelti Award for Best Textbook/Primer
Joseph J. Foy
Homer Simpson Goes To Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture
University Press of Kentucky, 2008
Peter Rollins Film Award for Best Documentary
Brian GaryJefferson Davis, An American President
Journal of Popular Culture
Russel B. Nye Award
Russel B. Nye Award for Outstanding Article published in The Journal of Popular Culture
James B. Kelley
Song, Story or History: Resisting Claims of a Coded Message in the African American Spiritual ‘Following the Drinking Gourd’ Volume 41, Number 2.
William E. Brigman Award
William E. Brigman Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in Popular Culture Presented at the National Conference
Ashley Elaine YorkFrom Chick Flicks to Millennial Blockbusters: Spinning Female-Driven Narratives into Franchises
Journal of AMERICAN Culture
William M. Jones Award
William M. Jones Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in American Culture Presented at the National Conference
Jennifer M. Black
Corporate Calling Cards: Advertising Trade Cards and Logos in US, c.1876-1890
Carl Bode Award
Carl Bode Award for Outstanding Article published in The Journal of American Culture
Kathleen Spies
Baseball, Apple Pie, and Burlesque Queens: Nationalism in Walt Kuhn’s Portraits of Showgirls
Volume 31, Number 1.