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Prizes and Grants
Awards and Prizes
Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
Mary C. Turpie Prize
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize
Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize
Constance M. Rourke Prize
Gene Wise - Warren Susman Prize
Yasuo Sakakibara Prize
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2003 Awards Ceremony
2004 Awards Ceremony
2005 Awards Ceremony
Carl Bode - Norman Holmes Pearson Prize
The American Studies Association is proud to announce it is accepting nominations for the Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies. The Bode-Pearson Prize, established in 1975, is one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in American Studies. The prize is awarded periodically at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association and includes lifetime membership in the ASA for the recipient. The Prize is awarded to an individual for a lifetime of achievement and service within the field of American Studies.
Nominations for 2008:
To nominate a candidate for the award, submit a letter and supporting materials detailing the rationale for putting forward the candidate's name. One set of nominating materials must be sent to each of the following committee members no later than June 30, 2008.
Chair: Sharon O'Brien
Caldwell Professor, Department of American Studies
Dickinson College
217 W. Pomfret Streetbr
Carlisle, PA 17017
Sharon Harley
Department of African American Studies
University of Maryland
2169 LeFrak Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Teresa McKenna
Department of English
University of Southern California
Taper Hall of Humanities, 404
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354
Bode-Pearson Prize Recipients, 1975-2007:
- 2007: Sacvan Bercovitch, Harvard University
- 2006: Paul Lauter, Trinity College
- 2005: Lois W. Banner, University of Southern California
- 2004: Murray G. Murphey, University of Pennsylvania
- 2003: Doris Friedensohn, New Jersey City University
- 2002: Martha Banta, University of California, Los Angeles
- 2001: Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga, Independent Scholars
- 2000: John Hope Franklin, Duke University
- 1999: Günter H. Lenz, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany
- 1998: Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University
- 1997: Bernice Johnson Reagon, American University
- 1996: Allen F. Davis, Temple University
- 1995: Leo Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 1993: Daniel Aaron, Harvard University
- 1991: Arthur Dudden, Bryn Mawr College
- 1990: Betty Ch'maj, California State University, Sacramento
- 1989: John A. Hague, Stetson University
- 1988: Albert E. Stone, University of Iowa
- 1987: Michael Cowan, University of California, Santa Cruz
- 1985: Warren Susman, Rutgers University and Gene Wise, University of Maryland
- 1983: Ralph Henry Gabriel, Yale University
- 1981: Robert E. Spiller, University of Pennsylvania
- 1979: Henry Nash Smith, University of California, Berkeley
- 1977: Merle Curti, University of Wisconsin
- 1976: Mary Turpie, University of Minnesota
- 1975: Norman Holmes Pearson, Yale University
Mary C. Turpie Prize
The American Studies Association is proud to announce it is accepting nominations for the Mary C. Turpie Award. The Award, established in 1993, is given to the candidate who has demonstrated outstanding abilities and achievement in American Studies teaching, advising, and program development at the local or regional level.
The Award is named for the late Mary C. Turpie, cofounder, chair, and for many years, the guiding force behind the American Studies Program at the University of Minnesota. The prize is awarded periodically at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association and includes life-time membership in the ASA for the recipient.
Nominations for 2008
To nominate a candidate for the award, submit a letter and supporting materials detailing the rationale for putting forward the candidate's name- for example, letters from colleagues, former colleagues, former students, and current students (if any); syllabi and course descriptions; a c.v.; and any evidence that speaks to excellence in teaching, program development, and hands-on involvement under the nominee's direction. Chapters and programs may nominate for this award. For more information, potential nominators may contact the committee chair. One set of nominating materials must be sent to each of the following 2008 committee members no later than June 30, 2008.
Chair: Michael Steiner
Department of American Studies
California State University, Fullerton
Fullerton, CA 92834-9480June Howard
Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, Rackham Graduate School
University of Michigan
915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070Bill Mullen
American Studies Program
Beering Hall, Room 1289
Purdue University
100 North University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2098
Mary C. Turpie Prize Recipients, 1994-2007:
- 2007: James Salem, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa
- 2006: Michael Steiner, California State University, Fullerton
- 2005: Joanna S. Zangrando, Skidmore College
- 2004: Norman R. Yetman, University of Kansas
- 2003: Daniel Horowitz, Smith College
- 2002: Eric J. Sandeen, University of Wyoming
- 2001: Robert A. Gross, College of William and Mary
- 2000: Jesper Rosenmeier, Tufts University
- 1999: Simon Bronner, Pennsylvania State University
- 1998: Jay E. Mechling, University of California, Davis
- 1997: Michael Aaron Rockland, Rutgers University
- 1997: Lois P. Rudnick, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- 1996: Alma Payne, Bowling Green State University
- 1995: Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan University
- 1994: Paul R. Baker, New York University
- 1994:Charles Bassett, Colby College
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize
The American Studies Association is delighted to announce the 2008 competition for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize. This $750 prize is awarded every year for the best-published book in American Studies. The period of eligibility for the 2008 John Hope Franklin Publication Prize will include books published between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007. The prizewinner will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 16-19, 2008. Authors and publishers may submit books. To be eligible, books must be written in English, but the competition is not restricted to works printed in the United States. The winning author must be a member of the Association.
Nominations for 2008
One copy of each entry must be sent to each of the following committee members no later than March 1, 2008; a separate letter listing each entry should also be sent to the members of the 2008 committee so they can verify the arrival of all volumes:
Chair:
Rodrigo Lazo
Department of English
435 Humanities Instructional Building
UC Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2650Siva Vaidhyanathan
Department of Media Studies
University of Virginia
401 Cabell Hall
PO Box 400866
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4866Lisa Lowe
American Studies Program
Yale University
P.O. Box 208236
New Haven CT 06520-8236
All entries must be clearly marked "Franklin Prize Entry." The prize honors John Hope Franklin, James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University, and past president of the American Studies Association
John Hope Franklin Publication Prize Recipients, 1987-2007:
- 2007: Jake Kosek, Understories: The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico (Duke University Press, 2006).
- 2006: Rebecca J. Scott, Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery (Harvard University Press, 2005).
- 2005: Premilla Nadasen, Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States (Routledge, 2004)
- 2004: Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard University Press, 2003)
- 2003: Emily Thompson, The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1953 (MIT Press, 2002)
- 2002: Mary Renda, Taking Haiti: Military Occupation and the Culture of US Imperialism, 1915-1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
- 2001: Leigh Eric Schmidt, Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment (Harvard University Press 2000)
- 2000: Walter Johnson, Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market (Harvard University Press, 1999)
- 1999: Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Harvard University Press, 1998)
- 1998: Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America (Princeton University Press, 1997)
- 1997: Kevin Gaines, Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1996)
- 1996: Stephanie McCurry, Masters of Small Worlds: Yeoman Households, Gender Relations, and the Political Culture of the Antebellum South Carolina Low Country (Oxford University Press, 1995)
- 1995: Elizabeth Lunbeck, The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender and Power in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 1994)
- 1994: Angela Miller, The Empire of the Eye: Landscape Representation and American Cultural Politics, 1825-1875 (Cornell University Press, 1993)
- 1993: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Louisiana State University Press, 1992)
- 1992: Ramón A. Gutiérrez, When Jesus Came, The Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford University Press, 1991)
- 1991: Lawrence Fuchs, The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture (Wesleyan University Press, University Press of New England, 1990)
- 1990: Nathan O. Hatch, The Democraticization of American Christianity (Yale University Press, 1989)
- 1990: Miles Orvell, The Real Thing: Imitation and Authenticity in American Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 1989)
- 1989: Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Fasting Girls: The Emergence of Anorexia Nervosa as a Modern Disease (Harvard University Press, 1988)
- 1988: Marcus Rediker, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 1987)
- 1987: Dell Upton, Holy Things and Profane: Anglican Parish Churches in Virginia (The Architectural History Foundation, 1986)
Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize
The American Studies Association is delighted to announce the 2008 competition for the Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize. The prize consists of a lifetime membership in the ASA and is awarded every year for the best-published first book in American Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class, sexuality and/or nation. The period of eligibility for the 2008 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize will include books published between January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007. The prizewinner will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico , October 16-19, 2008. Authors and publishers may submit books. To be eligible, books must be written in English, but the competition is not restricted to works printed in the United States. The winning author must be a member of the Association.
Submissions for 2008
One copy of each entry must be sent to each of the following committee members no later than March 1, 2008; a separate letter listing each entry should also be sent to the members of the 2008 committee so they can verify the arrival of all volumes:
Chair: Eileen Boris
Hull Professor and Chair
Women's Studies Program
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California 93106Elise V. Lemire
Department of Literature
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase College, SUNY
Purchase, NY 10577Julie Sze
American Studies Program
University of California at Davis
2221 Hart Hall
Davis, CA 95616
The prize honors Lora Romero, a valued and long-active member of the American Studies Association, former Assistant Professor at Stanford University, and author of Home Fronts: Nineteenth Century Domesticity and Its Critics (1997).
Romero Prize Recipients, 2002-2007:
- 2007: Ned Blackhawk, Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (Harvard University Press, 2006).
- 2006: Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: An Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and in Freedom (University of California Press, 2005)
- 2005: Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Aliens and the Making of Modern America, (Princeton University Press, 2004)
- 2004: Kandice Chuh, Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, (Duke University Press, 2003)
- 2003: Shelley Streeby, American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (University of California Press, 2002)
- 2002: Sharon Holland, Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Duke University Press, 2001)
Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize
The Ralph Henry Gabriel Prize is awarded annually to the best doctoral dissertation in American Studies, American Ethnic Studies or American Women's Studies. The prize honors Ralph Henry Gabriel, Professor Emeritus at Yale University, and a founder and past president of the American Studies Association.
Nominations for 2008
The American Studies Association is pleased to announce the competition for the 2008 Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize. The $500 prize will be awarded by the Association for the best doctoral dissertation in American Studies.
The period of eligibility for the Gabriel Prize will include dissertations completed between July 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008. Each graduate American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, or American Women's Studies program may nominate two dissertations that will have been completed under its aegis during the period of eligibility for the award. The competition is limited to candidates receiving the Ph.D. degree in American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, or American Women's Studies. Individuals may not nominate their own dissertations. The winning author must be a member of the Association. The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico , October 16-19, 2008.
The procedure for submission is as follows:
The Director of each graduate American Studies, American Ethnic Studies, or American Women's Studies program, in consultation with the faculty, will be eligible to choose for submission up to two dissertations completed in the program during the period of eligibility. The Director will then send to each member of the prize committee the dissertation abstracts, a sample chapter from each dissertation selected, and a cover letter explaining why each dissertation deserves the award. The deadline for submission is May 20, 2008. A separate letter listing each entry should also be sent to the members of the 2008 committee so they can verify the arrival of all nominating materials.
Chair: John Gennari
ALANA U.S. Ethnic Studies Program
University of Vermont
Old Mill Annex 502A
Burlington, VT 05405David Serlin
Department of Communication
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0503Mae Ngai
Department of History
Columbia University
1180 Amsterdam Ave. MC 2527
New York, NY 10027
Based on their reading of the materials submitted, the prize committee will then invite a short list of up to seven nominees to submit their completed dissertations for formal review.
Please note that the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize does not include publication with any individual press or publishing house.
Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize Recipients, 1987-2007:
- 2007: Daniel Wei HoSang, University of Southern California, "Racial Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California"
- 2006: Laura Isabel Serna, Harvard University, " 'We're Going Yankee': American Movies, Mexican Nationalism, Transnational Cinema, 1917-1935"
- 2005: Alyosha Goldstein, New York University, "Civic Poverty: An Empire for Liberty through Community Action"
- 2004: Brian Klopotek, University of Minnesota, "The Long Out-waiting: Federal Recognition Policy in Three Louisiana Indian Communities"
- 2003: Adria L. Imada, New York University, "Aloha America: Hawaiian Entertainment and Cultural Politics in the U.S. Empire"
- 2002: Katherine Masur, University of Michigan, "Reconstructing the Nation's Capital: The Politics of Race and Citizenship in the District of Columbia, 1862-1878"
- 2001: Shirley Thompson, Harvard University, "The Passing of a People: Creoles of Color in Mid-Nineteenth Century New Orleans"
- 2000: Jurretta Jordan Heckscher, George Washington University, "'All the Mazes of Dance': Black Dancing, Culture, and Identity in the Greater Chesapeake World from the Early Eighteenth Century to the Civil War"
- 2000: Meredith Raimondo, Emory University, "The Next Wave: Media Maps of the 'Spread of AIDS'"
- 1999: John Stauffer, Yale University, "The Black Hearts of Men: Race, Religion, and Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America"
- 1998: Steven Michael Waksman, University of Minnesota, "Instruments of Desire: The Electric Guitar and the Shaping of Musical Experience"
- 1997: Margaret T. McFadden, Yale University, "Anything Goes: Gender and Knowledge in the Comic Popular Culture of the 1930's"
- 1996: Rachel Buff, University of Minnesota, "Calling Home: Migration, Race and Popular Memory in Caribbean Brooklyn and Native American Minneapolis, 1945-1992"
- 1996: Melani McAlister, Brown University, "Staging the American Century: Race, Gender, and Nation in U.S. Representations of the Middle East, 1945-1992"
- 1995: Jill Lepore, Yale University, "The Name of War: Waging, Writing, and Remembering King Philip's War"
- 1994: Alicia Gaspar de Alba, University of New Mexico, "Mi Casa [No] Es Su Casa: The Cultural Politics of the Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985 Exhibition"
- 1993: Christophe Den Tandt, Yale University, "The Urban Sublime in American Literary Nationalism"
- 1992: Matthew Jacobson, Brown University, "Special Sorrows: Irish-, Polish-, and Yiddish-American Nationalism in the Diasporic Imagination"
- 1991: Kent Ryden, Brown University, "Mapping the Invisible Landscape: Geography, Narrative, and the Sense of Place"
- 1990: Marianne Doezema, Boston University, "George Bellows and Urban America, 1905-1913"
- 1989: Janice Knight, Harvard University, "A Garden Enclosed: The Rhetoric of the Heart in Puritan New England"
- 1988: Benedict Giamo, Emory University, "On the Bowery: Symbolic Action in American Culture and Subculture"
- 1998: Mary Corbin Sies, University of Michigan, "American Country House Architecture in Context: The Suburban Ideal of Living in the East and Midwest, 1877-1917
- 1987: Christian Appy, Harvard University, "A War for Nothing: A Social History of American Soldiers in Vietnam"
- 1987:Paula Rabinowitz, University of Michigan, "Female Subjectivity in Women's Revolutionary Novels of the 1930's"
Constance M. Rourke Prize
The Constance M. Rourke Prize is awarded annually to the best article published in American Quarterly. Award: $100.00.
The American Studies Association is pleased to announce the competition for the 2008 Constance P. Rourke Prize. The members of the prize committee are:
Chair: Jennifer DeVere Brody
Weinberg College Professor, Department of English
Northwestern University
1897 Sheridan Rd
Evanston, IL 60208-2240Nicole Fleetwood
38 West 119th Street
New York, NY 10026Ari Kelman
American Studies Program
University of California at Davis
2221 Hart Hall
Davis, CA 95616
The $100 prize will be awarded by the Association for the best article to appear in Volume 59 (2007) of American Quarterly. The winning author must be a member of the Association. The winner will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico , October 16-19, 2008.
Constance M. Rourke Prize Recipients, 1987-2007:
- 2007: Maria Farland's "W. E. B. DuBois, Anthropometric Science, and the Limits of Racial Uplift," (December 2006).
- 2006: Daryl J. Maeda, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Black Panthers, Red Guards, and Chinamen: Constructing Asian American Identity through Performing Blackness, 1969-1972," (2005).
- 2005: George J. Sánchez, University of Southern California, "'What's Good for Boyle Heights Is Good for the Jews': Creating Multiculturalism on the Eastside during the 1950s," (September 2004)
- 2004: Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California, "Elián González and 'The Purpose of America': Nation, Family, and the Child-Citizen," (June 2003)
- 2003: Mary Niall Mitchell, University of New Orleans, "Rosebloom and Pure White,' Or So It Seemed," (September 2002)
- 2002: Scott Saul, University of Virginia, "Outrageous Freedom: Charles Mingus and the Invention of the Jazz Workshop." (September 2001)
- 2001: Laura Briggs, University of Arizona, "The Race of Hysteria: "Overcivilization" and the "Savage" Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century Obstetrics and Gynecology," (June 2000)
- 2000: Kenrick Ian Grandison, "Negotiated Space: The Black College Campus as a Cultural Record of Postbellum America" (September 1999)
- 1999: Susan A. Glenn "'Give an Imitation of Me': Vaudeville Mimics and the Play of the Self" (March 1998)
- 1998: Mark Pittenger, "A World of Difference: Constructing the 'Underclass' in Progressive America" (March 1997)
- 1998: Sarah Robbins, "Gendering the History of the Antislave Narrative: Juxtaposing Uncle Tom's Cabin and Benito Cereno, Beloved and Middle Passage" (September 1997)
- 1997: Daniel Horowitz, "Rethinking Betty Friedan and The Feminine Mystique: Labor Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America." (March 1996)
- 1996: Kristine C. Kuramitsu, "Internment and Identity in Japanese American Art" (December 1995)
- 1995: Lori Ginzburg, "'The Hearts of Your Readers Will Shudder': Fanny Wright, Infidelity, and American Freethought" (June 1994)
- 1994: Lori Merish, "'The Hand of Refined Taste' in the Frontier Landscape: Caroline Kirkland's A New Home, Who'll Follow? and the Feminization of American Consumerism" (December 1993)
- 1993: Terence Whalen, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Edgar Allen Poe and the Horrid Law of Political Economy" (September 1992)
- 1992 Eric Lott, University of Virginia, "'The Seeming Counterfeit': Racial Politics and Blackface Minstrelsy" (June 1991)
- 1991: Werner Sollors, Harvard University, "Of Mules and Mares in a Land of Difference; or, Quadrupeds All?" (June 1990)
- 1990: Lizabeth Cohen, Carnegie Melon University, "Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s" (March 1989)
- 1989: E. Jennifer Monaghan, Brooklyn College/CUNY, for "Literacy Instruction and Gender in Colonial New England" (March 1988)
- 1988: Peter Seixas, University of California, Los Angeles, "Lewis Hine: From 'Social' to 'Interpretative' Photographer" (Fall 1987)
- 1987: Alan Taylor, Boston University, "Treasure Seeking in the American Northeast, 1780-1830" (Spring 1986)
Gene Wise - Warren Susman Prize
Student members of the American Studies Association who have had papers accepted for the 2008 annual meeting may compete for a student paper award. The prizewinner will beannounced at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association,to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico , October 16-19, 2008.
The Gene Wise - Warren Susman Prize includes a certificate and $500.00 in cash awarded for the best paper presented by a graduate student at the 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. The winning author must be a member of the Association.
Submissions for 2008
Submit one copy of each conference length paper, i.e., 10-12 type written pages (dissertation chapters or seminar length papers are not acceptable) to each of the following 2008 committee members postmarked no later than September 7, 2008; include a cover letter with author's name, institutional affiliation, paper title, and contact information.
Chair: Elizabeth Escobedo
Department of History
University of Denver
2000 E. Asbury
Denver, Colorado 80208Eileen Luhr
Department of History
California State University, Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd
Long Beach, CAAnna Pegler-Gordon
Department of History
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48825
Wise-Susman Prize Recipients, 1987-2007:
- 2007: Erin Park Cohn, University of Pennsylvania, "Imprinting Race: The Philadelphia Fine Print Workshop of the WPA Federal Art Project and the Visual Politics of Race"
- 2006: Carisa Worden, New York University,"Violence of the Body and Reform of the Soul: Prisons as the Emblem of America"
- 2005 : Dean Itsuji Saranillio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, "Kêwaikaliko's Benocide: Legal Lynchings, Colonialism, and Reversing the Imperial Gaze of Rice v. Cayetano and its Legal Progeny"
- 2004: 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"
- 2003: Lisa Soccio, University of Rochester, "Locust Abortion Technician Meets "Hamburger Lady": Shock as Symbolic Violence and Subcultural Signifier"
- 2002: Jane Dusselier, University of Maryland, College Park, Identity, "Community, and Place: Art in Japanese American Concentration Camps"
- 2001: Robin Bernstein, Yale University, "Talismans of the Middle Class: Nineteenth-Century Postmortem Daguerreotypes of Children"
- 2000: John Streamas, Bowling Green State University, "Japanese American Concentration Camp Home Movies and a Loss of Public Life"
- 1999: Adria L. Imada, New York University, "Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits Through the American Empire"
- 1998: Floyd Cheung, Tulane University, "Parading Masculinities: Euro-American and Chinese Imperialism and Gender in Territorial Arizona"
- 1997: Michael A. Elliott, Columbia University, "Telling the Difference: Narratives of Racial Taxonomy in the Late Nineteenth Century United States"
- 1996: Andrea Volpe, Rutgers University, "Bodily Attitudes: Posing Stands and the Respectable Body in Cartes de Visite Portrait Photographs"
- 1995: Julie Berebitsky, Temple University, "Rescue a Child and Save the Nation: The Social Construction of Adoption in the Delineator, 1907-11"
- 1994: Jennifer Delton, Princeton University, "Identity, Labor and Race: Black Politics in Minneapolis, 1945-50"
- 1993: Mary W. Blanchard, Rutgers University, "The Aesthetic Parlor, the Object d'Art, and the Sedated Self"
- 1992: Siobhan Somerville, Yale University, "Visible Differences: Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body"
- 1991: Mary W. Blanchard, Rutgers University, "The Intellectual Roots of an Aesthetic: Candace Wheeler and Her American Vision"
- 1990: Csaba Toth, University of Minnesota, "Rivers of Contrast: Europe and the Utopias of Gronlund, Bellamy, and Donnelly"
- 1989: Kirk Savage, University of California, Berkeley, "The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument"
- 1988: Eric Lott, Columbia University, "Blackface and Blackness: The Politics of Early Minstrelsy"
- 1987: Chris Rasmussen, Rutgers University, "Responding to Regionalism: The Iowa State Fair Art Salon"
Yasuo Sakakibara Prize
International scholars who have had papers accepted for the 2008 annual meeting may compete for this convention paper award. Scholars or practitioners whose institutional affiliation is outside the United States are eligible. The prizewinner will be announced at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico , October 16-19, 2008.
The Yasuo Sakakibara Prize includes a certificate and $500.00 in cash awarded for the best paper presented by an international scholar at the meeting. The winning paper may deal with any aspect of American history, culture, or society. The winning author must be a member of the American Studies Association or an affiliated international American Studies Association.
The prize honors Yasuo Sakakibara, Professor Emeritus of Economics and first chair of the Graduate School in American Studies at Doshisha University, and a past president of the Japanese Association for American Studies.
Submissions for 2008
Submit one copy of each conference length paper, i.e., 10-12 type written pages, via airmail to each of the following 2008 committee members postmarked no later than September 7, 2008; include a cover letter with author's name, institutional affiliation, paper title, and contact information.
Chair: Paul Kramer
University of Iowa
1493 East Chateau Vert St
Apartment H
Ypsilanti, MI 48197Scott Laderman
Department of History
University of Minnesota, Duluth
1121 University Drive
Duluth, Minnesota 55812Karen Leong
Women's Studies Program
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287David Stowe
Department of American Thought and Language
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
Sakakibara Prize Recipients, 2002-2007:
- 2007: No Submissions
- 2006: Mary Chapman, University of British Columbia, Canada, "Sui Sin Far and the Discourses of the American and Chinese Suffrage Movements in the 1910s."
- 2005: Finis Dunaway, Trent University, Canada, "Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism"
- 2004: Lily Cho, University of Western Ontario, Canada, "Seeing through Smoke: Situating the Coolie within the Discourse of Freedom"
- 2003: Min-Jung Kim, Ewha Woman's University, Seoul, Korea, "Nation, Immigration, and National Identity in Ronyoung Kim's Clay Walls"
- 2002: Joanne M. Mancini, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, "The Country Age: Globalization and Modernity in an American Region"
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