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Congratulations to all of our 2020 award winners! There were so many great submissions for these prizes. Please join us in congratulating the following 2020 WHA awards recipients (and don't forget to submit your work for the 2021 awards cycle)!
Read the list or browse the 2020 WHA Awards Program! https://bit.ly/2T3IxIM
Gordon Bakken Award of MeritCaroline Schimmel, University of Pennsylvania Brian Q. Cannon, Brigham Young University
Honorary Lifetime MembershipCaroline Schimmel, University of Pennsylvania Peter Blodgett, The Huntington Library Virginia Scharff, University of New Mexico (emerita)
Autry Public History PrizeRed Dead University, Center for the Study of the American West, West Texas A&M University. Contributors: Alex Hunt, Tim Foster, and A.J. McCormick
Caughey Western History Association PrizeMaurice Crandall, These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
David J. Weber-Clements PrizeMaurice Crandall, These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598-1912 (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
Donald L. Fixico AwardPhilip J. Deloria, Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract (University of Washington Press, 2019)
Hal K. Rothman AwardBathsheba Demuth, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton, 2019) Joan Paterson Kerr AwardHeather Ahtone, Faith Brower, and Seth Hopkins, Warhol and the West (University of California Press, 2019)
John C. Ewers AwardBrianna Theobald, Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
Robert G. Athearn AwardAlexandra Harmon, Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed (University of Washington Press, 2019)
Robert M. Utley AwardPekka Hämäläinen, Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power (Yale University Press, 2019)
Sally and Ken Owens AwardGenevieve Carpio, Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race (University of California Press, 2019)
W. Turrentine Jackson AwardBathsheba Demuth, Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (W.W. Norton, 2019)
Arrell M. Gibson AwardDoug Kiel, “Nation v. Municipality: Indigenous Land Recovery, Settler Resentment, and Taxation on the Oneida Reservation,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Journal (Fall 2019)
Arrington-Prucha PrizeAngela Pulley Hudson, “There is no Mormon Trail of Tears: Roots, Removals, and Reconstructions,” in Brian Q. Cannon and Clyde A. Milner II, eds., Reconstruction and Mormon America (University of Oklahoma Press, 2019)
Bert M. Fireman and Janet Fireman AwardMariel Aquino, “‘It Has a Way of Getting in Your Blood When You’re Basque’: Basque Sheepherders, Race, and Labor, 1880-1959,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2019)
Bolton-Cutter AwardC.J. Alvarez, “Police, Waterworks, and the Construction of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1924-1954,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2019)
Jensen-Miller AwardJordan Biro Walters, “‘So Let Me Paint’: Navajo Artist R.C. Gorman and the Artistic, Native, and Queer Subcultures of San Francisco, California,” Pacific Historical Review (Summer 2019)
Michael P. Malone AwardKenneth R. Coleman, “‘We’ll All Start Even’: White Egalitarianism and the Oregon Donation Land Claim Act,” Oregon Historical Quarterly (Winter 2019)
Oscar O. Winther AwardLissa K. Wadewitz, “Rethinking the ‘Indian War’: Northern Indians and Intra-Native Politics in the Western Canada-U.S. Borderlands,” Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2019)
Ray Allen Billington AwardNic John Ramos, “Poor Influences and Criminal Locations: Los Angeles’s Skid Row, Multicultural Identities, and Normal Homosexuality,” American Quarterly (June 2019)
Huntington Library-Western History Association Martin Ridge FellowshipNaomi Sussman (Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University), “Between the River and the Sea: Cahuilla and Cupeño History in California’s Long Nineteenth Century”
Vicki L. Ruiz AwardUzma Quraishi, “Racial Calculations: Indian and Pakistani Immigrants in Houston, 1960-1980,” Journal of American Ethnic History (Summer 2019)
Sara Jackson AwardDivana Olivas (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern California), “Red or Green?” Race, Settler Colonialism, and Activism in New Mexico Food Politics From Statehood to Climate Crisis”
Walter Rundell Graduate Student AwardAndy Rafael Aguilera (Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan), “Negotiating Mexicanidad: Race and Nationalism in Mexican Los Angeles during the Mexican Revolution, 1880-1940”
Charles Redd Center Teaching Western History AwardKatie Ward, St. John Paul II Catholic SchoolSandra Garcia, Theodore Roosevelt Middle School Alexander Hernandez, Cristo Rey High School Katherine Wiedenhoft, Annunciation Catholic School
Louise Pubols Public History AwardAlessandra LaRocca Link, Indiana University Southeast
Indian Student Conference ScholarshipAmber Tallchief-Wellman, Eastern Washington University
Trennert-Iverson Conference ScholarshipKimberly Sumano Ortega, University of Texas at El PasoDustin Cohan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
WHA Graduate Student Prize Andy Rafael Aguilera, University of MichiganMatthew Jason Green, University of Utah Amado Guzmán, University of Arizona Alejandra Herrera, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Greg LeDonne, Boise State University Kevan Malone, University of California, San Diego Jenni Tifft-Ochoa, University of California, Davis Michelle Vasquez Ruiz, University of Southern California
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