2012 Award Winners

RAY AND PAT BROWNE AWARDS

Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Single Work

Robert Lee Maril
The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration along the U.S.-Mexico Border
Texas Tech University Press, 2011

 

Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection

A Bowdoin Van Riper
Learning From Mickey, Donald and Walt: Essays on Disney’s Educational Films  
McFarland, 2011

 

Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best  Reference/Primary Source Work

Michael Ariens
Lone Star Law: A Legal History of Texas
Texas Tech University Press, 2011

 

Susan Koppelman  Award for Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies

Mary Chapman and Angela Mills
Treacherous Texts: U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946
Rutgers University Press, 2011

 

Emily Toth  Award for Best Single Work in Women’s Studies

Carolyn Bronstein
Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976-1986
Cambridge University Press, 2011

 

Electronic Reference Award

Media History Digital Library
David Pierce, Wendy Hagenmaier, Carl Hagenmaier, and Eric Hoyt
www.mediahistoryproject.org 2011

 

John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook/Primer

W. Scott Poole
Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting
Baylor University Press, 2011

 

Peter Rollins Film Award for Best Documentary

Gilbert G. Gonzales, Vivian Price and Adrian Salinas
Harvest of Loneliness: The Bracero Program

 

JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE

Russel B. Nye Award

Russel B. Nye Award for Outstanding Article published in The Journal of Popular Culture
Stephen J. Mexal
“Realism, Narrative History, and the Production of the Bestseller The Da Vinci Code and the Virtual Public Sphere”

 

William E. Brigman Award

William E. Brigman Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in Popular Culture Presented at the National Conference
Mary Pauline Bridgeman
“Forged in Love and Death: Problematic Subjects in The Vampire Diaries”

 

JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE

Carl Bode Award

Carl Bode Award for Outstanding Article published in The Journal of American Culture
Holly E. Martin
“Chang and Eng Bunker: ‘The Original Siamese Twins’ Living, Dying and Continuing Under the Spectator’s Gaze”

 

William M. Jones Award

William M. Jones Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in American Culture Presented at the National Conference
Sheena Eagan
“Emasculated by Trauma:  Exploring Another Mind-Body Narrative”