SSAWW 2012 Book AwardsLegacy SSAWW 2012 Best Paper Contest The Society for the Study of American Women Writers was founded in 2000 to promote the study of American women writers through research, teaching, and publication. The following three awards were established in 2011 to honor the work and legacies of the Society’s founding members and to further SSAWW’s goal to support and broaden knowledge among academics as well as the general public about American women writers. Book AwardThe SSAWW Book Award is given every three years at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers’ conference to recognize excellence in the field. The award recognizes the monograph’s significant contribution to scholarship related to American women writers published during the preceding three years before the submission deadline. Book Award 2012 Koritha Mitchell Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2011) http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/32xhk5kq9780252036491.html
Book Award Honorable Mention Lori Harrison-Kahan The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (Rutgers University Press, 2010) http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/acatalog/The_White_Negress.html Book Award Honorable Mention Robin Bernstein Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (NYU Press, 2011) https://nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookid=5773#.UHeTnpG9KSM Edition Award Edition Award 2012 Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting and Sarah L. Houser Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston by Hannah Mather Crocker(New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011) http://www.americanancestors.org/Product.aspx?id=23322 Edition Award Honorable Mention Co-edited by Melissa Homestead & Ellen Foster Clarence: or, A Tale of Our Own Times by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (Broadview Press, 2011) Edition Award Honorable Mention Edited by Sarah Robbins & Ann Pullen Nellie Arnott’s Writings on Angola, 1905-1913: Missionary Narratives Linking Africa and America (Parlor Press, 2011) Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement AwardThe Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award is given every three years at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers’ conference to recognize a scholar’s career achievement in the study of American women writers. The award recognizes the individual’s commitment to the field as demonstrated in his/her teaching, mentoring of students, scholarship and service. The award is named in honor of Karen Dandurand, who passed away in 2011. She was one of the founding editors of Legacy and was an active member of SSAWW, serving as Vice President of Development (2004-2009). Karen Dandurand Lifetime Achievement Award 2012 Frances Smith Foster |