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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 23, 2019
The Western History Association honors 45 scholars and teachers at59th Annual Conference
To learn more about WHA Awards and view the awards program, visit the WHA Awards page!
Gordon Bakken Award of MeritJo Tice Bloom, Independent Historian (posthumous)
John Heaton, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Honorary Lifetime MembershipAlfred L. Bush, Retired Curator of Western Americana at the Princeton University Library
Autry Public History PrizeThe Pendergast Years: Kansas City in the Jazz Age and Great Depression, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, Missouri. Contributors: Jason Roe, David LaCrone.
Caughey Western History Association PrizeMonica Muñoz Martinez, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Harvard University Press, 2018)
David J. Weber-Clements PrizeMatthew Sakiestewa Gilbert, Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain between Indian and American (University Press of Kansas, 2018)
Donald L. Fixico AwardLisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (Yale University Press, 2018)
Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) AwardChristopher D. Haveman, ed. Bending Their Way Onward: Creek Indian Removal in Documents (University of Nebraska Press, 2018)
Hal K. Rothman AwardJames E. Sherow, The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018) Joan Paterson Kerr AwardJames R. Swensen, In a Rugged Land: Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, and the Three Mormon Towns Collaboration, 1953-1954 (University of Utah Press, 2018)
John C. Ewers AwardLisa Brooks, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (Yale University Press, 2018)
Robert G. Athearn AwardMonica Muñoz Martinez, The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas (Harvard University Press, 2018)
Robert M. Utley AwardMark Santiago, A Bad Peace and a Good War: Spain and the Mescalero Apache Uprising of 1795-1799 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018)
Sally and Ken Owens AwardBeth Lew-Williams, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (Harvard University, 2018)
W. Turrentine-Jackson AwardMegan Black, The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power (Harvard University Press, 2018)
Arrell M. Gibson AwardRodger C. Henderson, “The Piikuni and the U.S. Army's Piegan Expedition: Competing Narratives of the 1870 Massacre on the Marias River,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History (Spring 2018)
Arrington-Prucha PrizeJay M. Price, “Assembling a Buckle of the Bible Belt: From Enclave to Powerhouse,” Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains (Spring 2018)
Bert M. Fireman and Janet Fireman AwardMichael A. Hill, “The Myth of Seward’s Folly,” Western Historical Quarterly (Spring 2019)
Bolton-Cutter AwardAlejandra Dubcovsky, “Defying Indian Slavery: Apalachee Voices and Spanish Sources in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast,” William and Mary Quarterly (April 2018)
Jensen-Miller AwardNatalia Molina, “Deportable Citizens: The Decoupling of Race and Citizenship In the Construction of the ‘Anchor Baby,’” in Deportation in the Americas: Histories of Exclusion and Resistance, Kenyon Zimmer and Cristina Salinas, eds. (Texas A&M Press, 2018)
Michael P. Malone AwardKatherine Ellinghaus, “The Moment of Release: The Ideology of Protection and the Twentieth-Century Assimilation Policies of Exemption and Competency in New South Wales and Oklahoma,” Pacific Historical Review (Winter 2018)
Oscar O. Winther AwardJoshua Garrett-Davis, “The Intertribal Drum of Radio: The Indians for Indians Hour and Native American Media, 1941-1951,” Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn 2018)
Ray Allen Billington AwardMegan Asaka, “‘40-Acre Smudge’: Race and Erasure in Prewar Seattle,” Pacific Historical Review (Spring 2018)
Huntington Library-Western History Association Martin Ridge FellowshipYvette Saavedra (Assistant Professor, University of Oregon) “Living La Mala Vida: Transgressive Femininities, Morality, and Nationalism in Mexican California, 1810-1850”
Vicki L. Ruiz Award (two awards in 2019)William Gow, “A Night in Old Chinatown: American Orientalism, China Relief Fundraising, and the 1938 Moon Festival in Los Angeles” Pacific Historical Review (Summer 2018)
Mary E. Mendoza, “Treacherous Terrain: Racial Exclusion and Environmental Control at the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Environmental History (November 2018)
Sara Jackson AwardKatherine Bynum (Ph.D. Candidate, Texas Christian University), “Civil Rights in the ‘City of Hate’: Grassroots Organizing against Police Brutality in Dallas, Texas, 1935-1990”
Walter Rundell Graduate Student AwardMark Boxell (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oklahoma), “Red Soil, White Oil: Race, Environment, and the Birth of Petroleum Dependency, 1890-1940”
Charles Redd Center Teaching Western History AwardAlex Barr, Connelly School of the Holy Child
Laura Fenerty, Holy Trinity School
Sandra Garcia, Theodore Roosevelt Middle School
Noël Ingram, DaVinci Communications High School
Louise Pubols Public History AwardJoel Zapata, University of Texas at El Paso
Indian Student Conference ScholarshipDeserea R. Langley, University of California, Davis Kristen Simmons, University of Chicago
Trennert-Iverson Conference ScholarshipKerry Goldmann, University of Texas at Dallas
Joseph Schiller, University of Oklahoma
WHA Graduate Student Prize Anna Toledano, Stanford University
Alika Bourgette, University of Washington
David Krueger, Harvard University
John Legg, Virginia Tech
Sasha Coles, University of California, Santa Barbara
Micaela Valadez, University of Texas at Austin
Taylor Rose, Yale University
Reilly Hatch, University of New Mexico
Juan Mora, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carolina Ortega, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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