Previous Awards

2024 Awards

• Article Awards:
  • Estelle B. Freedman,“‘Not a Word Was Said Ever Again: Silence and Speech in Women’s Oral History Accounts of Sexual Harassment,” The Oral History Review 50, no. 1 (2023): 4–22.
  • Jamey Jesperson and Saylesh Wesley, “Waking to Dream,” Transgender Studies Quarterly 10, no. 3 and 4 (2023): 265–300.
• Book Award:
  • Joseph Platter, Kids on the Street: Queer Kinship and Religion in San Francisco’s Tenderloin (Duke University Press, 2023).

2023 Awards

• Article Award:
  • Marla A. Ramirez, “Gendered Banishment: Rewriting Mexican Repatriation through a Transgenerational Oral History Methodology.,” Latino Studies 20, (2022): 306-333.
• Book Award:
  • Sarah C. Bishop, A Story to Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants’ Search for Asylum (Columbia University Press, 2022).

2022 Awards

• Article Award:
  • Mary Rizzo, “Who Speaks for Baltimore: The Invisibility of Whiteness and the Ethics of Oral History Theater,” Oral History Review 48, no. 2 (2021): 1-26.
• Book Award:
  • Max Krochmal and Todd Moye, Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle (University of Texas Press, 2021).

2021 Awards 

• Article Awards
  • Gregory S. Rosenthal, “How to Become a Woman,” Southern Cultures 26, no. 3 (2020): 122-137, 179. 
  • Nicki Pombier, “A Different Story: Narrative Allyship Across Ability,” in Disability Alliances and Allies, ed. Allison C. Carey, et al. (Emerald Publishing, 2020).
• Book Award
  • Leslie McCartney and Gwich’in Tribal Council, Our Whole Gwich’in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich’in K’yuu Gwiidandài’ Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land (University of Alberta Press, 2022).

2020 Awards

• Article Award
  • Henry Greenspan,  “The Humanities of Contingency: Interviewing and Teaching Beyond “Testimony” with Holocaust Survivors,” Oral History Review 46, no. 2 (2019): 360-379. 
• Book Award
  • Nēpia Mahuika, Rethinking Oral History and Tradition: An Indigenous Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • Honorable Mention: Jacquelyn D Hall, Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America (W.W. Norton & Company, 2019).

2019 Awards

• Article Award
  • Anna Sheftel, “Talking and Not Talking about Violence: Challenges in Interviewing Survivors of Atrocity as Whole People,” Oral History Review 45, no. 2 (2018): 288-303.
• Book Award
  • Franca Iacovetta, et al., Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practices of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2018). 

2018 Awards

• Article Award
  • Naoko Wake, “Surviving the Bomb in America: Silent Memories and the Rise of Cross-national Identity,” Pacific Historical Review 86, no. 3 (2017): 472-509.
• Book Award
  • S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli, The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2017). 

2017 Awards

• Article Award
  • Daniel R. Kerr, “Allan Nevins is Not My Grandfather: The Roots of Radical Oral History in the United States,” The Oral History Review 43, no. 2 (2016).
• Book Award
  • Ma-Nee Chacaby and Mary Louisa Plummer, A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder (University of Manitoba Press, 2016). 

2016 Awards

• Article Award
  • Alexander Freund, “Under Storytelling’s Spell? Oral History in a Neoliberal Age,” The Oral History Review 42, no. 1 (2015): 96-132.
• Book Award
  • Rina Benmayor, et al., Memory, Subjectivities, and Representation: Approaches to Oral History in Latin America, Portugal, and Spain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).

2015 Awards

• Article Award
  • Amy Starecheski, “Squatting History: The Power of Oral History as a History-Making Practice,” The Oral History Review 41, no. 2 (2014): 187-216. 
• Book Award
  • Mark Cave and Stephen M. Sloan, Listening on the Edge: Oral History in the Aftermath of Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2014).

2014 Awards

• Article Award
  • Tracy K’Meyer, “Remembering the Past and Contesting the Future of School Desgregation in Louisville Kentucky, 1975-2012,” The Oral History Review 39, no. 2 (2012): 230-57. 
• Book Award
  • Anna Sheftel and Stacey Zembrzycki, Oral History off the Record: Toward an Ethnography of Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). 

2013 Awards

• Article Award
  • Emilye Crosby, “White Privilege, Black Burden: Lost Opportunities and Deceptive Narratives in School Desegregation in Claiborne County, Mississippi,” The Oral History Review 39, no. 2 (2012): 258-285. 
• Book Awards
  • Yasmin Saikia, Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 (Duke University Press Books, 2011). 
  • Sean Field, Oral History, Community, and Displacement: Imagining Memories in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

2012 Awards

• Article Award
  • Ricardo Santhiago, “The Dissonant Lives of Brazilian Black Women Non-Samba Singers,” Oral History 39, no. 2 (2011): 49-62.
• Book Award
  • Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones, Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places (ILR Press, 2011).
• Book Award (International)
  • Alistair Thomson, Moving Stories: An Intimate History of Four Women Across Two Countries (Manchester University Press, 2011).

2011 Awards

• Book Award
  • Leslie Brown and Anne Valk, Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• No article award listed

2010 Awards

• Article Award
  • Gene B. Preuss and Alan Stein, “Oral History, Folklore, and Katrina,” Seeking Higher Ground, (2008): 225-240. 
• Article Award – Honorable Mention
  • Jacob J. Podber, “Television’s Arrival in the Appalachian Mountains of the USA: An Oral History,” Media History 14, no.1 (2008): 35-52
• No book award listed

2009 Awards

• Book Award
  • Joanna Herbert, Negotiating Boundaries in the City: Migration, Ethnicity, and Gender in Britain (Ashgate Publishing, 2006). 
• No article award

2008 Awards

• Article Award
  • Monica Perales, “Fighting to Stay in Smeltertown: Lead Contamination and Environmental Justice in a Mexican American Community,” Western Historical Quarterly 39, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 41–63.
• No book award

2007 Awards

• Book Award
  • Kim Lacy Rogers, Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
• No article award

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 35, no. 3 (2004): 331–354.
• No book award

2005 Awards

• Book Awards
  • Alessandro Portelli, The Order Has Been Carried Out: History, Memory, and Meaning of a Nazi Massacre in Rome (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
  • Eva T. Watt and Keith Basso, Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life, 1860–1975 (University of Arizona Press, 2004).
• No article award

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 12, no. 2 (2003): 224–58.
• No book award

2003 Awards

• Book Awards
  • Catherine Fosl, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
  • Matt Garcia, A World of Its Own: Race, Labor, and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2001).
• No article award

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 89, no. 1 (2002): 104–31.
• No book award

2001 Awards

• Book Award
  • Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (Duke University Press, 2000).
• No article award

2000 Awards

• Article Award
  • Andrew Wiese, “The Other Suburbanites: African American Suburbanization in the North Before 1950,” The Journal of American History 85, no. 4 (1999): 1445–74.
• No book award

1999 Awards

• Book Award
  • Central Avenue Sounds Editorial Committee, Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 1998).
• No article award

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 1 (1997): 7–20.
• No book award

1997 Awards

• Book Award
  • 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).
• No article award

1996 Awards

• Article Award
  • Alexander Freund and Laura Quilici, “Exploring Myths in Women’s Narratives: Italian and German Immigrant Women in Vancouver, 1947–1961,” British Columbia Studies no. 105 (1995): 159–82.
• No book award

1995 Awards

• Book Award
  • Michael Frisch and Milton Rogovin, Portraits in Steel (Cornell University Press, 1993).
• No article award