2011 Award Winners

Ray and Pat Browne Award
Best Single Work
Erika Doss                                                                              
Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in America
The University of Chicago Press, 2010

Ray and Pat Browne Award
Best Edited Collection
Maria del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren                                         
Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture
Continuum, 2010

Ray and Pat Browne Award
Best Reference/Primary Source Work                                           
Jason W. Stevens
God-Fearing and Free: A Spiritual History of America’s Cold War
Harvard University Press, 2010

Susan Koppelman Award  
Best Edited Volume in Women’s Studies
Deborah Willis                                                                       
Black Venus 2010: They Called Her “Hottentot”
Temple University Press, 2010

Emily Toth Award

Best Single Work in Women’s Studies                                           

Megan Sweeney
Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons
University of North Carolina Press, 2010

Electronic Reference Award                                                           

Quilt Index
A partnership of MATRIX, Michigan
State University Museum and the Alliance for American Quilts
http://www.quiltindex.org/
2011

John G. Cawelti Award

Best Textbook/Primer                                                          

Daniel T. Rodgers
Age of Fracture
Harvard University Press, 2011

Peter Rollins Film Award
Best Documentary
Sasha Waters Freyer                                                              
Chekov for Children

Russel B. Nye Award
Outstanding Article published in The Journal of Popular Culture
Judy Shoaf                                                                                                                 
“Queer Dress and Biased Eyes: The Japanese Doll on the Western Toyshelf”

William E. Brigman Award
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in Popular Culture Presented at the National Conference
Aishwarya Ganapathiraju                                                                                                                  
“Urban Retro-Futuristic Masculinities in China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station”

Carl Bode Award
Outstanding Article published in The Journal of American Culture
Angela F. Keaton                                                                                                                               
“Backyard Desperadoes: American Attitudes Concerning Toy Guns in the Cold War Era” 

William M. Jones Award
Outstanding Graduate Student Paper in American Culture Presented at the National Conference              
Kimberley Kutz                                             
“Chief of a Nation of Ghosts: Images of Abraham Lincoln’s Spirit in the Immediate Post-Civil War Period”