Previous Awards

2023 Awards

• Article Award: Marla A. Ramírez, “Gendered Banishment: Rewriting Mexican Repatriation through a Transgenerational Oral History Methodology”
• Book Award: Sarah C. Bishop, A Story To Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants’ Search for Asylum
• Martha Ross Teaching Award: Courtney Major, Edina High School, Minnesota
• Mason Multi-Media Awards:
  • Schuchman Center – Deaf Printers Pages, “Washington Post Deaf Printers”
  • Marcos Echeverría, “Where We Were Safe”
  • Arkansas People’s History Project, “The Women’s Project: A Digital History”

2022 Awards

• Article Award: Mary Rizzo, “Who Speaks for Baltimore: The Invisibility of Whiteness and the Ethics of Oral History Theater.”
• Book Award: Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle, Edited by Max Krochmal and Todd Moye
• Mason Multi-Media Awards:
  • Documentary: Ver Vet Blayn? (Who Will Remain?), Christa P. Whitney & Emily Felder
  • Project or Collection: The Essential Workers, Teri Finneman, Will Mari, & Kristen Hare
• Postsecondary Teaching Award: Dr. Kristina R. Llewellyn, University of Waterloo (Renison University College)
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi: Deborah Hendrix, University of Florida

2021 Awards

• Article Award
  “How to Become a Woman,” by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal”A Different Story: Narrative Allyship across Ability,” in Carey, A.C., Ostrove, J.M. and Fannon, T. (Ed.) Disability Alliances and Allies by Nicki Pombier
• Book Award
  Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land by Leslie McCartney & Gwich’in Tribal Council
• Mason Multi-Media AwardsHomefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II by Kathleen M. Ryan
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Roberto Fernandez III
  Plantation High School
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Annual Award
  Maggie Rivas Rodriguez

2020 Awards

• Article Award
  “The Humanities of Contingency: Interviewing and Teaching Beyond “Testimony” with Holocaust Survivors,” by Henry Greenspan
• Book Award
  Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective by Nepia Mahuika
  Honorable Mention: Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
• Mason Multi-Media AwardsRefugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home After the Holocaust by Stacey Zembrzycki, Eszter Andor, Nancy Rabelo and Anna SheftelVoices of Virginia: An Auditory Primary Source Reader by Jessica TaylorThe Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project: Lands We Share by The Lands We Share Project Team
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Professor Ricia Anne Chansky, “Mi María: Puerto Rico after the Hurricane”

2019 Awards

• Article Award
  “Talking and not Talking about Violence: Challenges in Interviewing Survivors of Atrocity as Whole People” by Anna Sheftel
• Book Award
  Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Katrina Srigley, Stacey Zembrzycki and Franca Iacovetta
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award (major project)
  Chilocco History Project, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, Oklahoma State University Library. Nominated by Sarah Milligan
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award (small project)
  South Carolina Veterans Oral History Project, Department of Oral History, University of South Carolina Libraries. Nominated by Andrea L’Hommedieu
• Non-Print Format Award
  Muslims in Muncie, Elizabeth Agnew
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Christopher Stanley, Ponaganset High School

2018 Awards

• Article Award
  Naoko Wake, “Surviving the Bomb in America: Silent Memories and the Rise of Cross-national Identity,” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 86 No. 3, August 2017; (pp. 472-509).
• Book Award
  S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli, The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory and the Nigerian Civil War.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award (major project)
  Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots: ‘Black Settlers and Their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies’
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award (small project)
  Stephen Sloan, Baylor University, “Texas Genocide Survivors.”
• Non-Print Format Award
  Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots “We are the Roots: Black Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies.”
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Martha Norkunas, Middle Tennessee State University
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People”) Award
  Ruth Edmonds Hill

2017 Awards

• Article Award
  “Allan Nevins is Not My Grandfather: The Roots of Radical Oral History in the United States”
  Daniel R. Kerr, The Oral History Review, Volume 43, Issue 2: Summer/Fall 2016
• Book Award
  A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
  Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer, University of Manitoba Press, 2016
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award (major project)
  Oklahoma 100 Year Life Oral History Project
  Oklahoma State University, Alex Bishop and Tanya Finchum
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award (small project)
  University High School Oral History Project
  University of South Carolina, Christian K. Anderson and Andrea L’Hommedieu
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  John Hutchinson, Marin Academy, San Rafael, CA
• Oral History in a Non-Print Format
  Gatheround: Stories of Atlanta (Museum Exhibit), Atlanta History Center, Calinda Lee
  Making Gay History (Podcast), Eric Marcus
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People”) Award
  Staughton and Alice Lynd

2016 Awards

• Article Award
  “Under Storytelling’s Spell? Oral History in a Neoliberal Age”
  Alexander Freund, The University of Winnipeg
  Oral History Review, Winter/Spring 2015
• Book Award
  Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation: Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain
  Rina Benmayor, Maria Eugenia Cardenal de la Nuez, and Pilar Dominguez Prats, editors
  Palgrave Macmillan, 2016
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award (major project)
  New Roots/Nuevas Raíces: Improving Global Access of Latino Oral Histories
  Latino Migration Project, Southern Oral History Program, and the University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award (small project)
  Talking the Blues: An Oral History of Blues Musicians in Austin, Texas
  Roger Davis Gatchet, West Chester University
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Brooke Bryan, Antioch College
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People”) Award
  Mario T. Garcia, Distinguished Professor of Chicano Studies and History, University of California, Santa Barbara

 2015 Awards

2014 Awards

• Article Award
  Tracy K’Meyer, “Remembering the Past and Contesting the Future of School Desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky, 1975-2012″
• Book Award

  Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki, editors

  Oral History off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Palgrave 2013)

• Non-Print Format Award:

  Kenneth Bindas and David Hassler, May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970

• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Awards
  African American Oral History Project, Oakland, California
  Densho, The Japanese American Legacy Project, Seattle, Washington

2013 Awards

• Article Award
  Emilye Crosby, “White Privilege, Black Burden: Lost Opportunities and Deceptive Narratives in School Desegregation in Claiborne County, Mississippi”
• Book Awards
  Yasmin Saikia, Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 (Duke 2011)
  Sean Field, Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Palgrave 2012)
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Awards
  Large Project (>$50,000) – Reed College Oral History Project (Reed College, John P. Sheehy, coordinator)
  Small Project (<$50,000) – The “Big Top” Show Goes On (Oklahoma State University, Tanya Finchum and Juliana Nykolaiszyn, co-directors)
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Falana McDaniel, McComb Legacies Project, McComb High School, McComb, MS
• Non-Print Format Award:
  Joanna Hay, Frankfort, KY Public Art Tour
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Awards
  Rosalie Riegle
  Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida

2012 Awards

• Book Award
  Susan Chandler and Jill Jones, Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places
• Book Award (International)
  Alistair Thomson, Moving Stories: An Intimate History of Four Women Across Two Countries
• Non-Print Format Award
  Jean-Francois Leclerc, “Lost Neighborhoods” exhibit, Centre D’Histoire de Montreal
• Article Award
  Ricardo Santhiago, “The Dissonant Lives of Brazilian Black Women Non-Samba Singers,”
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award
  Andrea L’Hommedieu, George J. Mitchell Oral History Project, Bowdoin College
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People) Award
  Sherna Gluck

2011 Awards

• Book Award
  Leslie Brown and Anne Valk, Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South
• Non-Print Media Award
  At Home in Utopia
• Non-Print Media Award Honorable Mention
  Quest for the Perfect Bourbon: Voices of Buffalo Trace Distillery
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Rosalie Uyola

2010 Awards

• Article Award
  Gene B. Preuss and Alan Stein, “Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina”
• Article Award – Honorable Mention
  Jacob J. Podber, “Television’s Arrival in the Appalachian Mountains of the USA: An Oral History”
• Elizabeth B. Mason Small Project Award
  Reflections: An Oral History of the Monadnock Region
• Elizabeth B. Mason Small Project Award – Honorable Mention
  The Cambodian American Community of Oregon’s Oral History Project
• Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award
  Oral History of Illinois Agriculture
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Jeremy Ball, Kim Rogers, Amy Wlodarski, Dickinson College

2009 Awards

• Book Award
  Joanna Herbert, Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain
• Non-Print Media Award
  Speaking Out!  Voices of Seattle’s Black Community
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Megan Webster, St. George’s School of Montreal

2008 Awards

• Article Award
  Monica Perales, “Fighting to Stay in Smeltertown:  Lead Contamination and Environmental Justice in a Mexican American Community”
• Elizabeth B. Mason Small Project Award
  “In Our Own Words – the Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers”
  AND
  “Oral History Project of Mexican American Community Builders in San Jose, California, 1960-2000” Francisco Jimémez, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Santa Clara University
• Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award
  Muskie Oral History Project, The Edmund S. Muskie and Special Collections Library
• Elizabeth B. Mason Major Project Award – Honorable Mention
  The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project.
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Barry Lanman and Laura Wendling

2007 Awards

• Book Award
  Kim Lacy Rogers, Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change. New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2006.
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Charla Helmers, Dundalk Elementary School, Baltimore, Maryland
• Non-print Media Award
  “Good Work, Sister! Women Shipyard Workers of World War II: An Oral History” produced by The Northwest Women’s History Project, https://www.goodworksister.org/

2006 Awards

• Article Award
  Elliott R. Barkan, “American in the Hand, Homeland in the Heart: Transnational and Translocal Immigrant Experience in the American West.” The Western Historical Quarterly, Autumn, 2004.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award
  “The Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project”
  National Park Service
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award
  ‘The Oral Histories of the Taylor Family and Residence”
  by Jon Hunner
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Kimberly Heikkila
• Postsecondary Teaching Award
  Erin McCarthy

2005 Awards

• Book Award
  Alessandro Portelli, The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
• Book Award
  Eva Tulene Watt and Keith Basso, Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860 – 1975. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2004.
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Kenneth Woodard, Connelly School of the Holy Child, Potomac, Maryland
• Non-print Media Award
  “Leonard Bernstein: An American Life” by Steve Rowland
• Non-print Media Award
  “Born and Raised in Tobacco Fields: Portrait of a Changing American Landscape,” produced by Carrie Nobel Kline, Adam Nordell and Michael Nobel Kline

2004 Awards

• Article Award
  Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, “‘That’s MY Place!’: Negotiating Racial, Sexual, and Gender Politics in San Francisco’s Gay Latino Alliance, 1975-1983,” Journal of the History of Sexuality (April 2003): 224-58.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award
  “The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History Project,”
  Kentucky Oral History Commission

2003 Awards

• Book Award
  Catherine Fosl, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
• Book Award
  Matt Garcia, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles. University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Michael Barker, Johanna Perrin Middle School
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Elizabeth Hoffman, Johanna Perrin Middle School
• Non-print Award
  “Down an Old Road: The Poetic Life of Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel” by Chris Simon
• Non-print Award
  “Under One Sky” University of Nevada Oral History Program

2002 Awards

• Article Award
  Pamela Grundy, “From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall of North Carolina Women’s Basketball, 1920 – 1960,” The Journal of American History, June 2002.
• Postsecondary Teaching
  A. Glenn Crothers, Indiana University Southeast
• Project Award
  “Agincourt: A Community History, Multicultural History Society of Ontario,”  Scarborough Historical Museum, City of Toronto
• Project Award
  “Growing Up in Washington,” The Historical Society of Washington, DC

2001 Awards

• Book Award
  Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Duke University Press, 2000.
• Martha Ross Teaching Award
  Richard Williams, Plum Borough Senior High School
• Non-print Award
  “Jazz: A Milwaukee History” A Radio Docudrama

2000 Awards

• Article Award
  Andrew Wiese, “The Other Suburbanites: African American Suburbanization in the North Before 1950,” The Journal of American History (March 1999): 1945-1254.
• Project Award
  “Life Histories of Three Generations of Inuit Women”, Nancy Wachowich
• Project Award
  “The Lonaconing Silk Mill, 1907-1957”, Allegany High School

1999 Awards

• Book Award
  Central Avenue Sounds Editorial Committee, Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles. University of California Press, 1998.
• Pre Collegiate Teaching
  Linda Wood
  Oral History Classroom Projects
  Hope Valley, RI 02832
• Nonprint Media
  “I Can Almost See the Lights of Home” produced by Charles Hardy III and Alessandro Portelli, The Journal for Multimedia History, 1999.  https://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol2no1/v2.html

1998 Awards

• Article Award
  Sherrie Tucker, “Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band,” Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, 1997
• Post Secondary Teaching
  The American Mosaic Project of Dickinson College
  Susan D. Rose, Charles Barone, Sharon O’Brien
• Project
  “Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act,” National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center

1997 Awards

• Book
  Charles L. Perdue Jr. and Nancy J. Martin-Perdue, Talk About Trouble: A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression. University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
• Pre Collegiate Teaching
  Glenn E. Whitman
  Blair Academy
  Blairstown, New Jersey
• Nonprint Media
  “Will the Circle be Unbroken?” by the Southern Regional Council

1996 Awards

• Article Award
  Alexander Freund and Laura Quilici, “Exploring Myths in Women’s Narratives: Italian and German Immigrant Women in Vancouver, 1947-1961” BC Studies (Spring/Summer 1995): 159-182.
• Post Secondary Teaching
  Walter Bennett
  University of North Carolina Law School
• Project
  “Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South” by the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.

1995 Awards

• Book Award
  Michael Frisch and Milton Rogovin, Portraits in Steel. Cornell University Press, 1993.
• Precollegiate Teaching Award
  Michael Brooks
  Suva Intermediate School
  Bell Gardens, California
• Nonprint Media
  “The Uprising of ’34,” George Stoney and Judith Helfand, codirectors and coproducers; Vera Rony, executive producer.