Browse Award Winners



African or American?

Cheikh Anta Diop Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the field of Africana Studies, National Council for Black Studies (NCBS), 2010

Author: Leslie M. Alexander

Sweet Tyranny

Winner of the Richard L. Wentworth/Illinois Award in American History, 2010.

Author: Kathleen Mapes

Beyond the Black Lady

Received an honorable mention for the National Womens Studies Associations Gloria E. Anzaldua Book Prize, 2010.

Author: Lisa B. Thompson

Radio's Hidden Voice

Winner of the Best Book in Journalism and Mass Communication given by the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), 2010.

Author: Hugh Richard Slotten

And They Were Wonderful Teachers

Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association (AESA), 2010.

Author: Karen L. Graves

Stolen Bases

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010.

Author: Jennifer Ring

Staley

Awarded the Certificate of Superior Achievement by the Illinois State Historical Society, 2010. Awarded the C.L.R. James Prize for Best Book in Working-Class Studies by the Working-Class Studies Association, 2010. Tied for Best Book related to the field of Labor Studies published in 2007-2009 from the United Association for Labor Educators (UALE), 2010.

Author: Steven K. Ashby and C. J. Hawking

Shadow of the Racketeer

Winner of Labor Historys Prize for the best book on labor history, 2010.

Author: David Witwer

Sojourner Truth's America

Winner of the inaugural 2010 OAH Darlene Clark Hine Award. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010. Co-winner of the 2009 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award.

Author: Margaret Washington

Record Makers and Breakers

Awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) for Best Research in Recorded Rock and Popular Music, 2010

Author: John Broven

Postmodern American Literature and Its Other

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010.

Author: W. Lawrence Hogue

The 1933 Chicago World's Fair

Recipient of the Smithsonian Institution Secretarys Research Prize, 2010.

Author: Cheryl R. Ganz

Normative Theories of the Media

Awarded the Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award for best research-based book on journalism/mass communication, 2010.

Author: Clifford G. Christians, Theodore L. Glasser, Denis McQuail, Kaarle Nordenstreng, and Robert A. White

Harlem vs. Columbia University

Received the Northeast Black Studies Associations inaugural Phillis Wheatley Prize, 2010.

Author: Stefan M. Bradley

A New Language, A New World

Winner of a 2010 American Book Award from The Before Columbus Foundation

Author: Nancy C. Carnevale

Beauty Shop Politics

Winner of the 2010 Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Award.

Author: Tiffany M. Gill

Christian America and the Kingdom of God

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2010.

Author: Richard T. Hughes

The Invention of Hebrew

Awarded the Frank Moore Cross Award, presented by the American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), 2010. Finalist in Scholarship category of the 2009 National Jewish Book Awards.

Author: Seth L. Sanders

King of the Queen City

Awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) for Best Research in Record Labels, 2010

Author: Jon Hartley Fox

Film and Attraction

Author received the Jean Mitry Prize given by the Giornate del Cinema Muto, honoring individuals who contribute to the advancement of history and recognition of silent cinema, 2010.

Author: André Gaudreault