2021 Recipients
Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded to Dale M. Bauer, Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Selection Committee
Julie Goodspeed-Chadwick (Chair), Professor, Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus
Martha Pitts, Assistant Professor, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Krista Quesenberry, Visiting Assistant Professor, Albion College
Claudia Stokes, Professor, Trinity University
Emily Van Duyne, Associate Professor, Stockton University
Book Award
Awarded to Abigail G. H. Manzella, Migrating Fictions: Gender, Race, and Citizenship in U.S. Internal Displacements (Ohio University Press, 2018).
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Honorable Mentions
Elizabeth Young for her book Pet Projects: Animal Fiction and Taxidermy in the Nineteenth-Century Archive (Penn State University Press, 2019).
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Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant for their book The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018).
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Selection Committee
Katherine Adams (Chair), Associate Professor, Tulane University
Janet Badia, Professor, Purdue University Fort Wayne
Jennifer J. Smith, Associate Professor, North Central College
Edition Award
Awarded to Lori Harrison-Kahan forThe Superwoman and Other Writings by Miriam Michelson (Wayne State University Press, 2019).
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Honorable Mention
Stephanie Peebles Tavera for Helen Brent, M.D. by Annie Nathan Meyer (Hastings College Press, 2020).
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Selection Committee
Jennifer Putzi (Chair), Associate Professor, The College of William and Mary
Amy Branam Armiento, Professor, Frostburg State University
Desiree Henderson, Associate Professor, UT-Arlington
2018 Recipients
Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award
Selection Committee
Diane Todd (Chair), Professor, Robert Morris University
Rita Bode, Professor, Trent University Durham
Karen Weyler, Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Theresa Gaul, Professor, Texas Christian University
Laura Nicosia, Associate Professor, Montclair State University
Krista Quesenberry, Postdoctoral Lecturer, Pennsylvania State University
Corey Powell, Independent Scholar
Book Award
Awarded to Lori Merish, Archives of Labor: Working-Class Women and Literary Culture in the Antebellum United States (Duke University Press, 2017).
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Selection Committee
Valeria Gennero (Chair), Associate Professor, University of Bergamo
Elissa Zellinger, Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University
Christina Henderson, Assistant Professor, Augusta University
Edition Award
Awarded to Laura Laffrado, Selected Writings of Ella Higginson (Whatcom County Historical Society).
Selection Committee
Terry Novak (Chair), Professor, Johnson & Wales University
Cheryl Hopson, Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University
Lucy Biederman, Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University
2015 Recipients
Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded to Sharon Harris, Professor Emerita, University of Connecticut
Selection Committee
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Professor of English, Chair of the Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee
Beth Widmaier Capo, Professor of English, Illinois College
Dorri Beam, Associate Professor of English, Syracuse University
Miranda Green-Barteet, Assistant Professor, Joint Appointed in Department of Women’s Studies and Department of English and Writing Studies, The University of Western Ontario
Elissa M. Zellinger, Lecturer of English, Armstrong Atlantic State University
Book Award
Awarded to Mary Chapman, Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and U.S. Modernism (Oxford University Press, 2014).
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Honorable Mentions
Alexandra Socarides, Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics (Oxford University Press, 2012).
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Claudia Stokes, The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014).
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Selection Committee
Koritha Mitchell (Chair) Associate Professor of English, The Ohio State University
Lori Harrison-Kahan, Associate Professor of the Practice of English, Boston College
Tamara Harvey, Associate Professor of English, George Mason University
Edition Award
Awarded to Theresa Strouth Gaul for Cherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 (University of Nebraska Press, 2014).
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Honorable Mention
Jennifer Putzi and Elizabeth Stockton, The Selected Letters of Elizabeth Stoddard (University of Iowa Press, 2012).
Selection Committee
Terry Novak, Professor of English, Chair of the Edition Award Selection Committee, Johnson & Wales University
Debby Rosenthal, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, John Carroll University
Seretha Williams, Professor of English, Georgia Regents University
Graduate Student Paper Award
The Society for the Study of American Women Writers is pleased to announce the winners of its 2015 Graduate Student Paper Awards, which recognize the exemplary work that graduate students presented at the recent SSAWW conference in Philadelphia, PA. This contest is separate from the best paper award sponsored by Legacy. Awards include a prize of $250 for first place and $150 for second place.
The following winning papers were selected among 32 entries:
First place
Julia Dauer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Maureen Cummins: Bookmaking and the Nineteenth-Century Archive”
Second place
Kimberly Farris, UNC Chapel Hill, “Educating the Nation: Pedagogical Nationalism and Female Utopias in Augusta Jane Evans’s Macaria”
Honorable Mention
Faune Albert, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “(Re)writing Histories in the Crossing: Natasha Trethewey and the Poetics of the Miscegenated Body”
Mark B. Kelley, University of California, San Diego, “‘An Offense without Feeling’: Confederate Pirates of Sympathy and Maria Cummins’s Haunted Hearts (1864).”
Selection Committee
Conseula Francis (College of Charleston)
Lisa West (Drake University)
Amy Hobbs Harris (Central State University)
2012 Recipients
Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award
Awarded to Frances Smith Foster, Professor of English and Women’s Studies Emeritus, Emory University
Book Award
Awarded to Koritha Mitchell, Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2011).
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Honorable Mentions
Lori Harrison-Kahan, The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (Rutgers University Press, 2010).
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Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2011).
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Edition Award
Awarded to Eileen Hunt Botting and Sarah L. Houser for Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston by Hannah Mather Crocker(New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011).
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Honorable Mentions
Melissa Homestead & Ellen Foster for Clarence: or, A Tale of Our Own Times by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (Broadview Press, 2011).
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Sarah Robbins & Ann Pullen for Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola, 1905-1913: Missionary Narratives Linking Africa and America (Parlor Press, 2011).
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Graduate Student Paper Award
The SSAWW is pleased to announce the winners of its 2012 Graduate Student Paper Awards, which recognize the exemplary work that graduate students presented at the recent SSAWW conference in Denver, Colorado. This contest is separate from a similar best paper award sponsored by Legacy. Awards include a prize of $250 for first place and $150 for second place. The following winning papers were selected among 29 entries:
First place
Melissa Lingle-Martin, Indiana U of Pennsylvania, “Icons, Iconoclasm, and Citizenship in Max Rosenthal’s Proclamation of Emancipation and Lydia Maria Child’s A Romance of the Republic”
Second place
Rickie-Ann Legleitner, U South Dakota, “The Cult of Artistry in Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz”
Honorable Mention
Meaghan Fritz, Northwestern U, “Editing, Activism, and the Gift: Maria Weston Chapman and the Liberty Bell”
Sarah Schuetze, U Kentucky, “Ill Fated: The Disease of Racism in Julia Collins’s Curse of Caste”
Rachel Wise, U Texas-Austin, “‘A mess of pottage’: Incorporating the Region in Emma Bell Miles’s The Spirit of the Mountains and Mary Austin’s The Land of Little Rain”
Selection Committee
Beth Capo (Illinois College)
Lisa Kirby (Collin College – Spring Creek)
Andreá N. Williams (Ohio State University)