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2025 Award Winners


Ray and Pat Browne Awards:

Best Single Work By One or More Authors in Popular and American Culture

Winner: Don H. Corrigan / In Search of Manhood: American Men’s Movements Past and Present

Honorable Mention: Lauren Kirshner, Sex Work in Popular Culture, University of Toronto Press

Best Edited Collection in Popular and American Culture

Winner: Shantel Martinez and Kelly Medina-López: Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling

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

Winner: John Muir. Horror Films of 2000-2009


Literary, Film, and Electronic Awards:

John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer

Winner: Victoria Sturtevant, It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy

Emily Toth Award for the Best Single Work by One or More Authors

Winner: Sarah Firth. Eventually Everything Connects: Eight Essays on Uncertainty

Honorable Mention: Ashley Lawson, On Edge: Gender and Genre in the Work of Shirley Jackson, Patricia Highsmith

Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in Feminist Studies

Winner: Making Space for Indigenous Feminism, edited by Gina Starblanket

John Leo and Dana Heller Award for Best Single Work, Anthology, Multi-Authored, or Edited Book in LGBTQ Studies

Winner: K. Allison Hammer, Masculinity in Transition
Honorable Mention:  Marcos Gonsalez, Revolting Indolence

Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies

Winner: Nyama McCarthy-Brown, Skin Colored Pointes: Interviews with Women of Color in Ballet
Honorable Mention:  Keith B. Wood, The Memphis Red Sox: A Negro Leagues History 

Honorable Mention: Todd M. Mealy, The N-Word in Music: An American History

Allen Ellis Digital Research Award in Popular Culture

Winner: Laura Horak, Transgender Media Portal

Kathy Merlock Jackson Dissertation Award

Winner: Elizabeth A. Shiller, Can I Have Your Autograph: Exploring Parasocial Relationships in Person

Journal Awards:

Journal of American Culture: Carl Bode Award for the Outstanding Article

Winner: Isaac Sharp

Journal of American Culture: William M. Jones Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper

Winner: Aine Norris


Organizational Awards:

Lynn Bartholome Eminent Scholar Award

Winner: 

John A. Lent, a long time member of the Popular Culture Association, both as an area chair for Asian Popular Culture and as a key member and mentor for Comics and Comic Art. 

Association Award

Winner: Gary Burns, PhD

Felicia Campbell and David Sokol Area Chair Awards

Winners: Amanda Jo Hobson, U. Melissa Anyiwo, and Lisa Nevarez, Vampire Studies 
Winners: Myles E. Lascity, Fashion Studies
 
President’s Award

Winner: Georges Jeanty

Previous Award Winners

Item Name Posted By Date Posted
2024 PCA Award Winners PDF (769.63 KB) Administration 4/18/2024
2023 Award Winners PDF (1.48 MB) Administration 4/18/2024
2022_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (124.3 KB) Administration 9/12/2023
2021_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (152.73 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2020_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (129.99 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2019_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (113.29 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2018_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (175.16 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2017_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (172.64 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2016_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (181.62 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2015_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (169.07 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2014_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (131.81 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2013_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (175.88 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2012_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (168.92 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2011_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (166.88 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2010_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (143.83 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2009_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (149.06 KB) Administration 6/8/2023
2008_Award_Winners.pdf PDF (163.7 KB) Administration 6/8/2023

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