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