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Events

Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).

Prizes and Grants

2003 Awards Ceremony

The American Studies association is proud to recognize the continuing high level of scholarship examining our American cultures. We hope all members of the Association will join in congratulating their fellow members honored with this year’s awards. ASA President-elect Shelley Fisher Fishkin will moderate the awards presentation, Friday, October 17, 7:00 PM, at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Hartford, Connecticut. The Program for the 2003 Annual Convention is available online at http://www.thasa.net/program03.

The 2003 Constance Rourke Prize

The Constance Rourke Prize has been awarded annually since 1987 for the best article published in American Quarterly. Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans, “‘Rosebloom and Pure White,‘ Or So It Seemed,“ American Quarterly. Volume 54 No. 3 (September 2002) has been selected as the 2003 prizewinner.

The 2003 Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize

The Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize, established in 1974, has been awarded annually since 1987 by the Association for the best dissertation in American Studies. Adria L. Imada, New York University, “Aloha America: Hawaiian Entertainment and Cultural Politics in the U.S. Empire,“ has been selected as the 2003 prizewinner.

The 2003 Gene Wise - Warren Susman Prize

The Gene Wise - Warren Susman Prize is awarded each year for the best paper to be presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting. The winning paper may deal with any aspect of American history, literature, or culture, but should reflect the breadth, the critical imagination, the intellectual boldness, and the cross-disciplinary perspective so strongly a part of the scholarship of both Gene Wise and Warren Susman. Lisa Soccio, University of Rochester, “Locust Abortion Technician Meets “Hamburger Lady”: Shock as Symbolic Violence and Subcultural Signifier,“ has been selected as the 2003 prizewinner.

The 2003 Yasuo Sakakibara Prize

The Yasuo Sakakibara Prize is awarded each year for the best paper to be presented by an international scholar at the annual meeting. The winning paper may deal with any aspect of American history, culture, or society. Min-Jung Kim, Ewha Woman’s University, Seoul, Korea, “Nation, Immigration, and National Identity in Ronyoung Kim’s Clay Walls,“ has been selected as the 2003 prizewinner.

The 2003 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize

The Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize was established in 2002 and is awarded annually for the best-published first book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation. Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego, American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (University of California Press) has been selected as the 2003 prizewinner.

Honorable Mentions include: Julia L. Foulkes, New School University, Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey (University of North Carolina Press); Matthew Garcia, Brown University, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (University of North Carolina Press); Sunaina Marr Maira, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City (Temple University Press); and Elizabeth McHenry, New York University, Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (Duke University Press).

The 2003 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize

The The John Hope Franklin Publication Prize was established in 1986 and has been awarded annually for the best book published in American Studies. The Franklin Prize Committee has selected Emily Thompson, Visiting Scholar, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1953 (MIT Press), as the 2003 prizewinner.

Honorable Mentions include: Joshua Brown, City University of New York Graduate Center, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America (University of California Press); Matthew Garcia, Brown University, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (University of North Carolina Press); and Charles Montgomery, University of Florida, The Spanish Redemption: Heritage, Power, and Loss on New Mexico’s Upper Rio Grande (University of California Press).

The 2003 Mary C. Turpie Award

Annually, the American Studies Association gives the Mary C. Turpie Award, established in 1993, to a person who has demonstrated outstanding abilities and achievement in American Studies teaching, advising, and program development at the local or regional level. The Turpie Award Committee has selected Daniel Horowitz, the Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies at Smith College, as the 2003 prizewinner.

The 2003 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize

The Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize honors lifetime achievement in and contribution to the field of American Studies. Each year’s prize committee is instructed to consider afresh the meaning of a “lifetime contribution to American Studies.“ The definitions of terms like “contribution” and even of “American Studies” remain open, healthily contested, and thus renewed. This year’s committee can testify to the wisdom of the ASA’s approach. The Bode-Pearson Prize Committee has selected Doris Friedensohn, Jersey City State University, as the winner of the 2003 prize.