Previous Awards

2024 Awards

• Article Awards:
  • “Not a Word Was Said Ever Again: Silence and Speech in Women’s Oral History Accounts of Sexual Harassment” by Estelle B. Freedman, The Oral History Review 50, no. 1 (2023): 4–22.
  • “Waking to Dream” by Jamey Jesperson and Saylesh Wesley, Transgender Studies Quarterly 10, no. 3 and 4 (2023): 265–300.
• Book Award:
  • “Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin” by Joseph Platter (Duke University Press, 2023).
• Cliff Kuhn Secondary Teaching Award:
  • Mary Marshall Clark, Columbia University
• Emerging Crises Oral History Research Fund:
  • “ Oral History of Journalist in Post-Coup Guinea” by Nomi Dave and Bremen Donovan
• Mason Multi-Media Award:
  • “ Japanese American Intergenerational Narratives Oral History Project” by Roger Eardley-Pryor, Shanna Farrell, and Amanda Tewes
  • “ Outliers and Outlaws: The Eugene Lesbian History Project” by Judith Raiskin
  • “ To live and Breathe: Women and Environmental Justice in Washington D.C.” by Rachel Seidman
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award:
  • Peggy Douglas
  • Voice of Witness (VOW)

2023 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “Gendered Banishment: Rewriting Mexican Repatriation through a Transgenerational Oral History Methodology” by Marla A. Ramirez, Latino Studies 20, (2022): 306-333.
• Book Award:
  • “A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants’ Search for Asylum” by Sarah C. Bishop, (Columbia University Press, 2022).
• Martha Ross Teaching Award:
  • Courtney Major, Edina High School, Minnesota
• Mason Multi-Media Awards:
  • “Washington Post Deaf Printers” by Schuchman Center – Deaf Printers Pages
  • “Where We Were Safe” by Marcos Echeverría
  • “The Women’s Project: A Digital History” by Arkansas People’s History Project

2022 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “Who Speaks for Baltimore: The Invisibility of Whiteness and the Ethics of Oral History Theater” by Mary Rizzo, Oral History Review 48, no. 2 (2021): 1-26.
• Book Award:
  • “Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle” by Max Krochmal and Todd Moye (University of Texas Press, 2021).
• Mason Multi-Media Awards:
  • “Ver Vet Blayn? (Who Will Remain?)” by Christa P. Whitney and Emily Felder
  • “The Essential Workers” by Teri Finneman, Will Mari, and Kristen Hare
• Postsecondary Teaching Award:
  • Dr. Kristina R. Llewellyn, University of Waterloo (Renison University College)
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Award:
  • Deborah Hendrix, University of Florida

2021 Awards 

• Article Awards:
  • “How to Become a Woman” by Gregory S. Rosenthal, Southern Cultures 26, no. 3 (2020): 122-137, 179. 
  • “A Different Story: Narrative Allyship Across Ability” by Nicki Pombier, in Disability Alliances and Allies, ed. Allison C. Carey, et al. (Emerald Publishing, 2020).
• 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 and Gwich’in Tribal Council, (University of Alberta Press, 2022).
• Mason Multi-Media Award:
  • “Homefront 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,  Oral History Review 46, no. 2 (2019): 360-379. 
• Book Award:
  • “Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective” by Nēpia Mahuika (Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • “Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America” by Jacquelyn D Hall (Honorable Mention), (W.W. Norton & Company, 2019).
• Mason Multi-Media Awards:
  • “Refugee Boulevard: Making Montreal Home After the Holocaust” by Stacey Zembrzycki, Eszter Andor, Nancy Rabelo and Anna Sheftel
  • “Voices of Virginia: An Auditory Primary Source Reader” by Jessica Taylor
  • “The Wisconsin Farms Oral History Project: Lands We Share” by The Lands We Share Project Team
• Postsecondary Teaching Award:
  • “Mi María: Puerto Rico after the Hurricane” by Professor Ricia Anne Chansky

2019 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “Talking and Not Talking about Violence: Challenges in Interviewing Survivors of Atrocity as Whole People” by Anna Sheftel, Oral History Review 45, no. 2 (2018): 288-303.
• Book Award:
  • “Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century” by Franca Iacovetta, et al., (Routledge, 2018). 
• 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
  • Major Project:
    • Chilocco History Project, Oklahoma Oral History Research Program, Oklahoma State University Library. Nominated by Sarah Milligan
• Non-Print Format Award:
  • Muslims in Muncie by Elizabeth Agnew
• Martha Ross Teaching Award:
  • Christopher Stanley, Ponaganset High School

2018 Awards

• Article Award
  • “Surviving the Bomb in America: Silent Memories and the Rise of Cross-national Identity” by Naoko Wake, Pacific Historical Review 86, no. 3 (2017): 472-509.
• Book Award
  • “The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War“ by S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli, (Cambridge University Press, 2017). 
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Awards :
  • Small Project:
    • “Texas Genocide Survivors” by Stephen Sloan, Baylor University
  • Major Project:
    • “Black Settlers and Their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies” by Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots
• Non-Print Format Award:
  • “We are the Roots: Black Settlers and their Experiences of Discrimination on the Canadian Prairies” by Shiloh Centre for Multicultural Roots
• 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,” by Daniel R. Kerr, The Oral History Review 43, no. 2 (2016).
• Book Award
  • “A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder” by Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer, (University of Manitoba Press, 2016). 
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Awards:
  • Small Project:
    • University High School Oral History Project, University of South Carolina, Christian K. Anderson and Andrea L’Hommedieu
  • Major Project:
    • Oklahoma 100 Year Life Oral History Project, Oklahoma State University, Alex Bishop and Tanya Finchum
• Martha Ross Teaching Award:
  • John Hutchinson, Marin Academy, San Rafael, CA
• Non-Print Format Award:
  • Gatheround: Stories of Atlanta (Museum Exhibit), Atlanta History Center by Calinda Lee
  • Making Gay History (Podcast) by 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,” by Alexander Freund, The Oral History Review 42, no. 1 (2015): 96-132.
• Book Award:
  • “Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation: Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain” by Rina Benmayor, et al., (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Awards:
  • Small Project:
    • “Talking the Blues: An Oral History of Blues Musicians in Austin, Texas” by Roger Davis Gatchet, West Chester University
  • 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
• 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

• Article Award:
  • “Squatting History: The Power of Oral History as a History-Making Practice” by Amy Starecheski, The Oral History Review 41, no. 2 (2014): 187-216. 
• Book Award:
  • “Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis”, by Mark Cave and Stephen M. Sloan, (Oxford University Press, 2014).
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Awards:
  • Small Project:
    • Freedom Summer Oral History and Library Curation Project by Samuel Proctor Oral History Program in collaboration with the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida Sarah Blanc, Jana Ronan, and Diana Dombrowski, Coordinators
  • Major Project:
    • “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” by Sady Sullivan and Deborah Schwartz, Brooklyn Historical Society
• Martha Ross Teaching Award:
  • David Jones, Eastside High School, Gainesville, Florida
• Non-Print Format Award:
  • “Goin’ North:  Stories of the First Great Migration to Philadelphia” by Charles Hardy III, Janneken Smucker, and Doug Boyd
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People”) Award:
  • Michael Kline, Talking Across the Lines

2014 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “Remembering the Past and Contesting the Future of School Desgregation in Louisville Kentucky, 1975-2012,” by Tracy K’Meyer, The Oral History Review 39, no. 2 (2012): 230-57. 
• Book Award:
  • “Oral History off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice” by Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 
• Non-Print Format Award:
  • “May 4th Voices: Kent State, 1970” by Kenneth Bindas and David Hassler
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi Awards:
  • African American Oral History Project, Oakland, California
  • Densho, The Japanese American Legacy Project, Seattle, Washington

2013 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “White Privilege, Black Burden: Lost Opportunities and Deceptive Narratives in School Desegregation in Claiborne County, Mississippi,” by Emilye Crosby, The Oral History Review 39, no. 2 (2012): 258-285. 
• Book Awards:
  • “Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971” by Yasmin Saikia (Duke University Press Books, 2011). 
  • “Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa” by Sean Field, Oral History, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Awards:
  • Small Project (<$50,000):
    • The “Big Top” Show Goes On (Oklahoma State University, Tanya Finchum and Juliana Nykolaiszyn, co-directors)
  • Major Project (>$50,000):
    • Reed College Oral History Project (Reed College, John P. Sheehy, coordinator)
• 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 Award:
  • Rosalie Riegle, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, University of Florida

2012 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “The Dissonant Lives of Brazilian Black Women Non-Samba Singers,” by Ricardo Santhiago, Oral History 39, no. 2 (2011): 49-62.
• Book Award:
  • Domestic:
    • “Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places” by Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones (ILR Press, 2011).
  • International:
    • “Moving Stories: An Intimate History of Four Women Across Two Countries” by Alistair Thomson (Manchester University Press, 2011).
• Non-Print Format Award:
  • “Lost Neighborhoods” exhibit by Jean-Francois Leclerc, Centre D’Histoire de Montreal
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award:
  • Oral History Project, Andrea L’Hommedieu, George J. Mitchell, Bowdoin College
• Stetson Kennedy Vox Populi (“Voice of the People) Award:
  • Sherna Gluck

2011 Awards

• Book Award
  • “Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South” by Leslie Brown and Anne Valk (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• Non-Print Media Awards:
  • 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:
  • “Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina – Seeking Higher Ground ” by Gene B. Preuss and Alan Stein, (2008): 225-240. 
  • “Television’s Arrival in the Appalachian Mountains of the USA: An Oral History,” by Jacob J. Podber: Honorable Mention, Media History 14, no.1 (2008): 35-52
• Elizabeth B. Mason Awards:
  • Major Project:
    • Oral History of Illinois Agriculture
  • Small Project:
    • “Reflections: An Oral History of the Monadnock Region”
    • Honorable Mention: The Cambodian American Community of Oregon’s Oral History Project
• Postsecondary Teaching Award:
  • Jeremy Ball, Kim Rogers, and Amy Wlodarski at Dickinson College

2009 Awards

• Book Award:
  • “Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain” by Joanna Herbert (Ashgate Publishing, 2006). 
• 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:
  • “Fighting to Stay in Smeltertown: Lead Contamination and Environmental Justice in a Mexican American Community,” by Monica Perales, Western Historical Quarterly 39, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 41–63.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Award:
  • Major Project:
    • “Muskie Oral History Project” by The Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
    • Honorable Mention: “Nevada Test Site Oral History Project“
  • Small Project:
    • “In Our Own Words—The Negro Spirituals Heritage Keepers”
    • “Oral History Project of Mexican American Community Builders in San Jose, California, 1960-2000” by Francisco Jimémez, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Santa Clara University
• Postsecondary Teaching Award:
  • Barry Lanman and Laura Wendling

2007 Awards

• Book Award:
  • “Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change” by Kim Lacy Rogers, (Palgrave Macmillan, 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” by The Northwest Women’s History Project

2006 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “American in the Hand, Homeland in the Heart: Transnational and Translocal Immigrant Experience in the American West,” by Elliott R. Barkan, The Western Historical Quarterly 35, no. 3 (2004): 331–354.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Awards:
  • “The Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project”, National Park Service
  • “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 Awards:
  • “The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome” by Alessandro Portelli (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
  • “Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life” by Eva T. Watt and Keith Basso, 1860–1975 (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,” by Carrie Nobel Kline, Adam Nordell and Michael Nobel Kline

2004 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “ ‘That’s MY Place!’: Negotiating Racial, Sexual, and Gender Politics in San Francisco’s Gay Latino Alliance, 1975–1983” by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Journal of the History of Sexuality 12, no. 2 (2003): 224–58.
• Elizabeth B. Mason Project Award:
  • “The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky Oral History Project” by Kentucky Oral History Commission

2003 Awards

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

2002 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall of North Carolina Women’s Basketball, 1920–1960” by Pamela Grundy The Journal of American History 89, no. 1 (2002): 104–31.
• Postsecondary Teaching:
  • A. Glenn Crothers, Indiana University Southeast
• Project Awards:
  • “Agincourt: A Community History, Multicultural History Society of Ontario” by Scarborough Historical Museum, City of Toronto
  • “Growing Up in Washington” by The Historical Society of Washington, DC

2001 Awards

• Book Award:
  • “The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India” by Urvashi Butalia (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:
  • “The Other Suburbanites: African American Suburbanization in the North Before 1950,” by Andrew Wiese, The Journal of American History 85, no. 4 (1999): 1445–74.
• Project Awards:
  • “Life Histories of Three Generations of Inuit Women” by Nancy Wachowich
  • “The Lonaconing Silk Mill, 1907-1957” by Allegany High School

1999 Awards

• Book Award:
  • “Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles” by Central Avenue Sounds Editorial Committee, (University of California Press, 1998).
• Pre Collegiate Teaching Award:
  • Oral History Classroom Projects Hope Valley, Linda Wood, RI 02832
• Non-print Media Award:
  • “I Can Almost See the Lights of Home” 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:
  • “Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band” by Sherrie Tucker, Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture 1 (1997): 7–20.
• Post Secondary Teaching Award:
  • The American Mosaic Project of Dickinson College, Susan D. Rose, Charles Barone, and Sharon O’Brien
• Project Award:
  • “Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act” by National Rehabilitation Hospital Research Center

1997 Awards

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

1996 Awards

• Article Award:
  • “Exploring Myths in Women’s Narratives: Italian and German Immigrant Women in Vancouver, 1947–1961” by Alexander Freund and Laura Quilici, British Columbia Studies no. 105 (1995): 159–82.
• Post Secondary Teaching Award:
  • Walter Bennett, University of North Carolina Law School
• Project Award:
  • “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
• Non-print Media Award:
  • “The Uprising of ’34” by George Stoney and Judith Helfand, codirectors and coproducers; Vera Rony, executive producer.