American Studies Division
Interest Group Awards
Listed here are awards given by the Interest Group to its members. Interests Groups are smaller communities within NCA's large membership that provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
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Top Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2016 | Andrea N. Wheeler |
| 2016 | William Scott Sanders, Selene G. Phillips, and Cecelia Hunt |
| 2016 | Rachel Elizabeth Presley |
| 2015 | Tiara R. Na’puti, “Militarization and Resistance from Guahan (Guam): Protecting and Defending Against America” |
| 2015 | Thomas A. Salek, “Money Doesn’t Talk, It Swears: Parody, Excess and Strategic Ambiguity in Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’” |
| 2015 | Dominic Manthy, “Rhetoric of Blood: Framing Protest in the Tuscarora Counter-Movement” |
| 2015 | Bridget Sutherland, “They Come Here to Hunt: The Law, Space and Gender Violence in Indian Country” |
| 2013 | David Worthington “Narratives of “Vitim,” “Perpetrator,” and “Liberator” at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum” |
| 2013 | Jason Edward Black “’Don’t Worry ‘Bout Losing your Accent; A Southern Man Tells Better Jokes’: Generationalism in the Southern-Based Lyrics of the Drive-By Truckers” |
| 2013 | Brook Irving “The Land that Time Forgot: Symbolizing the Stopped Clock in Industrial Ruin” |
Best Doctoral Dissertation
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Jamie L. Downing, “'Whatever We may be We may be, but Jews are What We are': Jewish Rhetoric and the Construction of Great Plains and Upper Midwestern Jewish Communities.” |
Best Book
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Kristen Hoerl, The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements. University Press of Mississippi |
Top Student Paper Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Allison Prasch |
Best Article Award
| Year | Award Winner |
|---|---|
| 2018 | Ashley Noel Mack & Bryan J. McCann "'Strictly an act of street violence': intimate publicity and affective divestment in the New Orleans Mother's Day shooting." |
| 2016 | Elisabeth H. Kinsley |