WHA Award Winners

The following awards were announced at the Western History Association Conference Friday, October 14, 2005:

Arrington-Prucha Prize, given for the best essay of the year on the history of religion in the West: Matthew J. Grow for “The Whores of Babylon and the Abomination of Abominations: Nineteenth-Century Catholic and Mormon Mutual Perceptions and Religious Identity,” in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, March 2004.
   
Award of Merit, annual award recognizing an individual for outstanding contributions to western history, and especially to the Western History Association: Robert Trennert.

Ray Allen Billington Award, annual award for the best journal article in western history not published in the Western Historical Quarterly: Michael Magliari for “Free Soil, Unfree Labor: Cave Johnson Couts and the Binding of Indian Workers in California, 1850-1867,” in Pacific Historical Review, August 2004.

Bolton-Kinnaird Award, for the best article on Spanish borderlands history: Andrew Graybill for “Texas Rangers, Canadian Mounties, and the Policing of the Transnational Industrial Frontier, 1885-1910,” in Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2004.

Caughey-Western History Association Prize, for the best book of the year in western history: Jeffrey Ostler for The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Bert M. Fireman Award, for the best student essay published in the Western Historical Quarterly: Nicolas G. Rosenthal for “Representing Indians: Native American Actors on Hollywood’s Frontier,” in Western Historical Quarterly, Autumn 2005.

Arrell M. Gibson Award, for the best essay of the year on the history of Native Americans: Jessica R. Cattelino for essay “Casino Roots: The Cultural Production of Twentieth-Century Seminole Economic Development,” in Colleen O’Neill and Brian Hosmer, eds., Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Colorado, 2004)

Honorary Life Membership, awarded by the Western History Association president: Markku Henrikkson, Elizabeth Jameson, Quintard Taylor.

Huntington Library-Western History Association-Martin Ridge Fellowship, one-month fellowship to the Huntington Library for study in western history: Lissa Wadewitz, Stanford University, for her research titled “The Nature of Borders: Salmon and Boundaries in the Puget Sound/Georgia Basin.”

Sara Jackson Award, to support graduate student research: Marc Allan Goldberg, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for work on his dissertation “Forget the Alamo: Popular Culture and Subaltern Political Participation in San Antonio, 1780-1836.”

W. Turrentine Jackson Award, biennial award for the best first book published on the American West: John T. Coleman, Vicious: Wolves and Men in America (Yale University Press, 2004).

Joan Paterson Kerr Book Award, biennial award for the best illustrated book on the America West: Edited by Brandon K. Ruud, annotations by Marsha V. Gallagher, essays by Ron Tyler and Brandon K. Ruud, preface by J. Brooks Joyner, Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints (Joslyn Art Museum and University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

Michael P. Malone Award, for the best article, essay, or commentary on state, provincial, or territorial history in North America: Gregg Cantrell, “The Bones of Stephen F. Austin: History and Memory in Progressive-Era Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (October 2004).

Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award, to support dissertation research on a topic in western history: Robin Courtney Henry, Indiana University, for work on her dissertation “Criminalizing Sex, Defining Sexuality: Sodomy Laws, Manhood, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Colorado.”

Robert M. Utley Award, annual award for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America: R. Eli Paul, Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux War, 1854-1856 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2004).

Oscar O. Winther Award, for the best article published in the Western Historical Quarterly: Mark Fiege for “The Weedy West: Mobile Nature, Boundaries, and Common Space in the Montana Landscape,” in Western Historical Quarterly Spring 2005.

2005 Graduate Student Conference Scholarships:

2004

The following awards were announced at the Western History Association Conference Friday, October 15, 2004:

Arrington-Prucha Prize, given for the best essay of the year on the history of religion in the West: Rolf Swensen for essay “Pilgrims at the Golden Gate: Christian Scientists on the Pacific Coast, 1880-1915,” in Pacific Historical Review, May 2003.

The Robert G. Athearn Book Award, given biennially for a published book on the twentieth-century American West, biennial award for the best first book published on the American West: Karen Merrill for Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property Between Them (University of California Press, 2002)

Award of Merit, annual award recognizing an individual for outstanding contributions to western history, and especially to the Western History Association: Marvin Kaiser.

Ray Allen Billington Award, annual award for the best journal article in western history not published in the Western Historical Quarterly: Katherine Benton-Cohen for “Docile Children and Dangerous Revolutionaries: The Racial Hierarchy of Manliness and the Bisbee Deportation of 1917,” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 2003.

Bolton-Kinnaird Award, for the best article on Spanish borderlands history: Eric V. Meeks for “The Tohono O'odham, Wage Labor, and Resistant Adaptation, 1900-1930,” in The Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2003).

Caughey-Western History Association Prize, for the best book of the year in western history: Colin G. Calloway for One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press, 2003).

John C. Ewers Award, given biennially for the best book on North American Indian Ethnohistory: Colin G. Calloway for One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (University of Nebraska Press, 2003).

Bert M. Fireman Award, for the best student essay published in the Western Historical Quarterly: . James Feldman for the essay “The View from Sand Island: Reconsidering the Peripheral Economy, 1880-1940,” Autumn 2004.

Arrell M. Gibson Award, for the best essay of the year on the history of Native Americans: Pekka Hämäläinen for “The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures,” in Journal of American History, December 2003.

Honorary Life Membership, awarded by the Western History Association president: Anne Butler, Margaret Connell-Szasz.

Huntington Library-Western History Association-Martin Ridge Fellowship, one-month fellowship to the Huntington Library for study in western history: Lawrence Culver for his research titled “The Island, the Oasis, and the City: Santa Catalina, Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Southern California's Shaping of American Life and Leisure.”

Sara Jackson Award, to support graduate student research: Stella Mancillas, University of California, Davis, for work on her dissertation “The Indian-White Marriage of Lucy and John Hite: Race, Gender, and Class in the Post Years of the California Gold Rush.”

Michael P. Malone Award, for the best article, essay, or commentary on state, provincial, or territorial history in North America: Keith Tolman for “Tea Kettle on a Raft: A History of Navigation on the Upper Red River,” in Chronicles of Oklahoma, Winter 2003-2004.

Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award, to support dissertation research on a topic in western history: Christine G. Bye, University of Calgary, for work on her dissertation “Grassroots Connections: A Cross-Border Study of Northern Great Plains Families during the Great Depression.”

Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award, biennial award for best bibliography or research tool: to Vine Deloria, Jr., Editor and University of Oklahoma Press for The Indian Reorganization Act: Congresses and Bills (2002).

Robert M. Utley Award, annual award for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America: Jerome A. Greene for Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876, (University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)

Oscar O. Winther Award, for the best article published in the Western Historical Quarterly: Eric V. Meeks for “The Tohono O'odham, Wage Labor, and Resistant Adaptation, 1900-1930,” in The Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2003).

2004 Graduate Student Conference Scholarships:

Indian Student Conference Scholarship to support Indian student attendees at the WHA conference.  The 2004 recipients were Jeffrey Means (University of Oklahoma) and Rosalyn Rae LaPier (University of Montana).

The following awards were announced at the Western History Association Conference Friday, 10 October 2003.

Arrington-Prucha Prize in Western American Religious History, given for the best essay on the history of religion in the West: Douglas Firth Anderson for “Protestantism, Progress, and Prosperity: John P. Clum and ‘Civilizin’ the U.S. Southwest, 1871-1886,” Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 3.

Award of Merit, annual award recognizing an individual for outstanding contributions to western history, and especially to the Western History Association: Margot Liberty.

Ray Allen Billington Prize, annual award for the best journal article in western history not published in the Western Historical Quarterly: Thomas A. Krainz for “Transforming the Progressive Era Welfare State: Activists for the Blind and Blind Benefits,” Journal of Policy History, Volume 15:2, 2003, pp. 223-264.

Bolton-Kinnaird Award in Borderlands History, for the best article on Spanish borderlands history: David E. Narrett for “José Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara: Caudillo of the Mexican Republic in Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, CVI (October 2002), 195-230.

Caughey-Western History Association Prize, for the best book of the year in western history: Will Bagley for Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002.

Bert M. Fireman Award, for the best student essay published in the Western Historical Quarterly: Matthew C. Whitaker for “'Creative Conflict': Lincoln and Eleanor Ragsdale, Collaboration, and Community Activism in Phoenix, 1953-1965,” Western Historical Quarterly, 34 no.2 (Summer 2003): 165-190.

Arrell M. Gibson Award, for the best essay of the year on the history of Native Americans: Thomas G. Andrews for “Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920s,” Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4.

Honorary Life Membership, awarded by the Western History Association president: William H. Goetzmann.

Huntington Library-Western History Association-Martin Ridge Fellowship, one-month fellowship to the Huntington Library for study in western history: Stacy Smith of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Sara Jackson Award, to support graduate student research: Melody Miyamoto of Arizona State University for research on her dissertation “No Home for Domesticity: Gender and Migration in the Nineteenth Century West.”

W. Turrentine Jackson Award, biennial award for the best first book published on the American West: James F. Brooks for Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Joan Paterson Kerr Book Award, biennial award for the best illustrated book on the America West: Aron L. Crowell (Editor), Amy F. Steffian (Editor), Gordon L. Pullar (Editor) for Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People (University of Alaska Press, 2001).

Michael P. Malone Award, for the best article, essay, or commentary on state, provincial or territorial history in North America: Suzanne Barta Julin for “Art Meets Politics: Peter Norbeck, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the Sylvan Lake Hotel Commission,” South Dakota History (Summer 2002).

Walter Rundell Graduate Student Award, to support dissertation research on a topic in western history: Jennifer Seltz of the University of Washington to support work on her dissertation “Embodying Nature: Health, Place, and Identity in 19th-Century America.”

Robert M. Utley Award, annual award for the best book published on the military history of the frontier and western North America: William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips for The Black Regulars, 1866-1898, University of Oklahoma Press, 2001.

Oscar O. Winther Award, for the best article published in the Western Historical Quarterly: Louis S. Warren for “Cody's Last Stand: Masculine Anxiety, the Custer Myth, and the Frontier of Domesticity in Buffalo Bill's Wild West,” Western Historical Quarterly, 34 no.1 (Spring 2003): 49-69.

2003 Graduate Student Conference Scholarships:

Indian Student Conference Scholarship to support Indian student attendees at the WHA conference.  The 2003 recipients were Elise Boxer (Utah State University) and Kim Suina (University of New Mexico).

Graduate Student Conference Scholarship to support graduate student attendees at the WHA conference.  The 2003 recipients were Raymond Rast (University of Washington), Robin Henry (University of Indiana), and Karin Enloe (Arizona State University).