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Prizes and Grants
2004 Awards Ceremony
November 12, 2004, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Hyatt Atlanta Hotel, Regency VII
The American Studies Association is proud to recognize the continuing high level of scholarship examining our American cultures. The ceremony was held on November 12, 2004, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, at the Hyatt Atlanta Hotel, Regency VII. We ask all members of the Association will join in congratulating their fellow members honored at this year’s award ceremony.
The 2004 Constance Rourke Prize
Chair: ERIKA DOSS, University of Colorado
LAURA BRIGGS, University of Arizona
ELIZABETH YOUNG, Mount Holyoke College
The Constance Rourke Prize has been awarded annually since 1987 for the best article published in American Quarterly. Sarah Banet-Weizer, University of Southern California, “Elián González and ‘The Purpose of America’: Nation, Family, and the Child-Citizen,” American Quarterly. Volume 55 No. 2 (2003) has been selected as the 2004 prizewinner.
The 2004 Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize
Chair: DAVID ROMÁN, University of Southern California
SUSAN GILMAN, University of California, Santa Cruz
ANN FABIAN, Rutgers University
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. Brian Klopotek, “The Long Out-waiting: Federal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities,” University of Minnesota, Department of American Studies, has been selected as the 2004 prizewinner.
Honorable mention: Tavia Nyong’o “Uncommon Memory: The Performance of Amalgamation in Early Black Political Culture,” Yale University, Program in American Studies.
The 2004 Gene Wise - Warren Susman Prize
Chair: JUDITH JACKSON FOSSETT, University of Southern California
COLLEEN BOGGS, Dartmouth College
HENRY YU, University of British Columbia, Canada
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.
Ana Elizabeth Rosas, University of Southern California, “En Aquellos Tiempos”: Mexican Women and Men and the Cultural Politics of Bracero Labor Camp Culture, 1954-56,” has been selected as the 2004 prizewinner.
Honorable mention: Kelly Quinn, University of Maryland, “‘Just Enough for the City”: Labor and Leisure at Langston Terrace Dwellings,” and Leslie M. Hammer, University of California, San Diego, “Fighting like a ‘Lady’ for Hawaiian Sovereignty: Sentimentality and Performing Whiteness in Queen Lili’uokalani’s Hawai’i’s Story by Hawai’i’s Queen.”
The 2004 Yasuo Sakakibara Prize
Chair: LISA MACFARLANE, University of New Hampshire
CAROLINE LEVANDER, Rice University
JOANNE MARIE MANCINI, University of Sussex
The Yasuo Sakakibara Prize is awarded annually 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. Lily Cho, University of Western Ontario, “Seeing through Smoke: Situating the Coolie within the Discourse of Freedom,” has been selected as the 2004 prizewinner.
The 2004 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize
Chair: SHARON P. HOLLAND, University of Illinois, Chicago
NAYAN SHAH, University of California, San Diego
KAREN SHIMAKAWA, University of California, Davis
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. Kandice Chuh’s Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, Duke University Press, 2003 has been selected as the 2004 prizewinner.
Honorable Mention: Catherine Ceniza Choy’s Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History, Duke University Press, 2003
The 2004 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
Chair: ANGELA MILLER, Washington University
ROBERT LEE, Brown University
DONALD PEASE, Dartmouth College
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 Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism, Harvard University Press, 2003.
Honorable Mention: Scott Andrew Saul, Freedom Is, Freedom Ain’t: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties, Harvard University Press, 2003.
The 2004 Mary C. Turpie Award
Chair: SIMON BRONNER, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
MARY KELLEY, University of Michigan
SUSAN SMULYAN, Brown University
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 Norman R. Yetman, University of Kansas, as the 2004 prizewinner.
The 2004 Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Chair: STEPHEN H. SUMIDA, University of Washington
FRANCIS G. COUVARES, Amherst College
MARY HELEN WASHINGTON, University of Maryland
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 Murray G. Murphey, University of Pennsylvania, as the winner of the 2004 prize.
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