Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize
- 2022 Jarvis R. Givens, Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching (Harvard University Press, 2021).
- Honorable Mention: Aaron S. Lecklider, Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality & the Left in American Culture (University of California Press, 2021).
- 2020 Christine DeLucia, Memory Lands: King Philip’s War and the Place of Violence in the Northeast (Yale University Press, 2018).
- Honorable Mention: Nina Silber, This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal America (University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
- 2018 Co-winners: Llana Barber, Latino City: Immigration and Urban Crisis in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1945-2000 (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and Hidetaka Hirota, Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy (Oxford University Press, 2016).
- 2016 Ju Yon Kim, The Racial Mundane: Asian American Performance and the Embodied Everyday (New York University Press, 2015).
- 2014 Kimberly Chabot Davis, Beyond the White Negro: Empathy and Anti-Racist Reading (University of Illinois Press, 2014).
- Honorable Mention: Gordon S. Barker, Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution: Eight Cases, 1848-1856 (McFarland & Company, 2013).
- 2012 Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights (New York University Press, 2011).
- 2010 Co-winners: Christopher Capozzola, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War One and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2008) and Karl Jacoby, Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History (Penguin Press, 2008).
- 2008 Kevin Rozario, The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and the Making of Modern America (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
- 2006 James Campbell, Middle Passages: African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005 (Penguin Press, 2006)
- 2005 Bradford D. Martin, The Theater is in the Street (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004)
- 2003 Peter Gibian, Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation(Cambridge University Press, 2001)
- 2001 Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Fire and Roses: The Burning of the Charlestown Convent, 1834 (Free Press, 2000)
- 1996 Lois P. Rudnick, Utopian Vistas: The Mabel Dodge Luhan House and the American Counterculture (University of New Mexico Press, 1996)
Mary Kelley Prize
- 2022 Rachel C. Kirby (Boston University) “‘I’ll Admit that Black is White’: Mr. Peanut’s Accessorized Shell as a Racialized Body”
- 2021 Noël Ingram (Boston College) “‘Rattle Your Rage’: SisterSerpents’s MadWoman #5, Feminist Anger, and the Aesthetics of Protest.” Honorable mention: Grace McGowan (Boston University) “‘This Fault’ring Music Dies Upon My Tongue’: Phillis Wheatley and the Classical Tradition”
- 2018 Allysha Roth (UMass Boston) “De-hyphenating Americans: The Formation of Citizenship as White Self-Reliance in the Schoolhouse during the Progressive Era.”
- 2016 Mary Potorti (Emerson College), “What we eat is politics”: SNCC, Hunger, and Voting Rights in Mississippi.” Honorable Mention: Lucas Dietrich (Lesley University), “Writing of a Nation: Zitkala-Ša and the Atlantic Monthly, 1900-1902.”
- 2014 Tyler Jackson Rogers (Yale University), “The Limits of Recovery: Indigenous Women’s Narratives of Slavery and Murder in Colonial New England”
- 2011 Breanne Robertson (University of Maryland), “Guardians of San Diego History: Challenging Pan-Americanism in Donal Hord’s Civic Center Sculpture.”
- 2010 Sheryl Kaskowitz (Harvard University), “God Ble$$ America: Contested Ownership of an Iconic Song.”
- 2008 Ziv Eisenberg (Yale University), “Red All Over: Protecting the American Body Politic from Infection in the Early Twentieth Century”; and Stefanie Head (University of Rhode Island, “Framing Freedom: Nation, Empire, and the Renovation of the National Archives Building.”
- 2007 Gretchen Sinnett (Salem State College), “A Virgin and Several Nymphomaniacs: Envisioning Female Adolescent Sexuality in the Late Nineteenth Century”; and Whitney Strub (California State University, Fullerton), “Lavender, Menaced: American Obscenity Law and the Suppression of Lesbian Sexuality.”
- 2006 Lori Harrison-Kahan (Boston College), “Blackface, White Negress: Sophie Tucker’s Some of These Days.”
- 2003 Jennifer Snow (Columbia University), “Caste, Conversion, Citizenship: Missionary Discourse and the Race of the Hindu in the U.S. v. Bhagat Singh Thind.”
Lisa MacFarlane Prize
- 2021 Jessica Alvarez (Lesley University) “Dolly Parton: Music as Second Wave Activism in Southern Society.”
- 2018 Alexander Zhang (Yale University) “The First Law of Yellow: How Color Came to Define Citizenship in the Wake of Reconstruction.”
- 2016 Hannah Jo Dorfman (Tufts University) “Contesting the Faith: Late 20th Century American Evangelicalism in Black and White.”
- 2014 Margaret Hanson (Brown University), “Remaking American Girl(hood): Fan Reuse, Reinterpretation, Alteration and Expansion of the American Girl Brand.” Honorable Mention: Jessica Sykes (Yale University), “Look At You: The Performance of Race in Contemporary Hip-Hop.”
- 2011 Tim O’Connor (Boston College), “Deconstructing the Dark Knight: The Role of the Superhero Film in Post-9/11 America” and Zachary Sylvane (Boston University), “The Emersonian Individual.”
- 2008 Jenny Weissbourd, “Women’s Rights and Women’s Health in the Providence Physiological Society, 1850-1851.”
- 2007 Joey Fink (University of Massachusetts-Boston), “Rights, Reform, and Respectibility: New England Working Women’s Claims to Citizenship in the Nineteenth Century” and Maggie O’Keefe (Yale University), “Reclaiming the Reservation: A Case Study of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Land Management Policies on the Flathead Reservation”