Literary Awards

RAY AND PAT BROWNE AWARDS

BrownE Best Single work by One or More Authors in Popular and American Culture

Winner:  W.K. Stratton. The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film (Bloomsbury, 2019).

 

BrownE Best Edited Reference/ Primary Source Work in Popular and American Culture

Winner: James E. Brunson III. Black Baseball, 1858–1900: A Comprehensive Record of the Teams, Players, Managers, Owners and Umpires (McFarland, 2019).

 

JOHN G. CAWELTI AWARD FOR THE BEST TEXTBOOK/PRIMER

Allan W. Austin & Patrick L. Hamilton. All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero  (University of Texas Press, 2019).

 

SUSAN KOPPELMAN AWARD FOR THE BEST ANTHOLOGY, MULTI-AUTHORED, OR EDITED BOOK IN FEMINIST STUDIES IN POPULAR AND AMERICAN CULTURE

Zahra Hankir. Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting From the Arab World Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting From the Arab World  (Penguin Books,  2019).

and

Diane Noomin. Drawing Power: Women’s Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival (Comic Arts, 2019).

 

EMILY TOTH AWARD FOR BEST SINGLE WORK IN WOMEN’S STUDIES

Rachel González. Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities (University of Texas Press, 2019).

Runner Up: Monica Germanà. Bond Girls:  Body, Fashion and Gender (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019).

 

JOHN LEO AND DANA HELLER AWARD FOR BEST SINGLE WORK, ANTHOLOGY, MULTI-AUTHORED, OR EDITED BOOK IN LGBTQ STUDIES

Susan Potter. Queer Timing: The Emergence of Lesbian Sexuality in Early Cinema (University of Illinois Press, 2019). 

Runner Up:  Mia Fischer. Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State (University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Runner Up: Monalesia Earle. Writing Queer Women of Color: Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives (McFarland, 2019).

 

HARRY SHAW AND KATRINA HAZZARD-DONALD AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING WORK IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE STUDIES

Brenna Wynn Greer, Represented: The Black Image-makers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019).

Runner Up: Tanisha C. Ford.  Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl’s Love Letter to the Power of Fashion (St. Martin’s Press, 2019). 

  

BEST DISSERTATION AWARD

Emily Margolis. Space Travel at 1G: Space Tourism in Cold War America 

 

Journal Awards

 

Journal of Popular Culture

William E. Brigman Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper presented at the National Conference

Kyesha Jennings   “City Girls, Hot Girls, and the Re-imagining of Black Women in Hip-Hop and Digital Spaces.”  

Russel B. Nye Award for the Outstanding Article published in the Journal of Popular Culture

Ewa Drygalska “Space is the Place: Black Cinema in Search of Speculative Fictions” (vol 52, #4)

Rodanthi Tzanelli, “Unpopular Culture: Ecological Dissonance and Sustainable Futures in Media-Induced Tourism” (vol. 52, #6)

Runner-Up:

 Lili Paquet, “Selfie-Help: The Multimodal Appeal of Instagram Poetry” (vol. 52 #2)

 

Journal of American Culture

William M. Jones Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper presented at the National Conference

Paige Weaver. “Reconstructing a Nation Through Silk and Diplomacy: American Material Culture and Foreign Relations During the Reconstruction Era.”

Carl Bode Award for the Outstanding Article published in the Journal of american Culture

Tony Magistrale and Michael Blouin, “The Vietnamization of Stephen King.”