Lawrence W. Levine Award
The Lawrence W. Levine Award is an annual book award made by the Organization of American Historians (OAH). The award goes to the best book in American cultural history.[1] The award is named for Professor Lawrence W. Levine, President of the OAH 1992–1993, who wrote extensively in the field. A committee of 5 members of the OAH, chosen annually by the President, makes the award. The winner receives $1000.
The Awards[edit]
Source: Organization of American Historians
| Year | Winner | Affiliation | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Daniel R. Mandell[2] | Truman State University | Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880 |
| 2009 | Peggy Pascoe | University of Oregon | What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America |
| 2010 | Kathleen M. Brown[3] | University of Pennsylvania | Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America |
| 2011 | Heather Murray[4] | University of Ottawa | Not in This Family: Gays and the Meaning of Kinship in Postwar North America |
| 2012 | Michael Willrich | Brandeis University | Pox: An American History |
| 2013 | Adria L. Imada | University of California, San Diego | Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire |
| 2014 | Shawn Michelle Smith | School of the Art Institute of Chicago | At the Edge of Sight: Photography and the Unseen |
| 2015 | Allyson Hobbs | Stanford University | A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life |
| 2016 | Benjamin Looker | Saint Louis University | A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America |
| 2017 | John W. Troutman | University of Louisiana, Lafayette & National Museum of American History | Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music |
| 2018 | Cary Cordova | University of Texas, Austin | The Heart of the Mission: Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco |
| 2019 | Monica Muñoz Martinez | Brown University | The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas |
| 2020 | Erik Seeman | State University of New York at Buffalo | Speaking with the Dead in Early America |
| 2021 | Marcia Chatelain | Georgetown University | Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America |
| 2022 | Tiya Alicia Miles | Harvard University | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake |
| 2023 | James Zarsadiaz | University of San Francisco | Resisting Change in Suburbia: Asian Immigrants and Frontier Nostalgia in L.A. |
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.oah.org/programs/awards/lawrence-w-levine-award/ Last viewed September 9, 2015.
- ^ "Daniel Mandell | Truman Faculty Website".
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2011-03-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ http://www.research.uottawa.ca/news-details_2280.html Last viewed on November 28, 2011.