Listed below are the graduate students who won awards for their outstanding conference papers.


Submission information for each category


Mike K. Shoenecke Award for American Culture


Dana Byrd, University of Delaware-Winterthur Museum

"Way Finding: Work, Space and Evangelism at a Truck Stop Chapel"


Phyllis Bridges Graduate Award for Biography


Amy Hart, Central Missouri State University

"Answering the Call: Kansas City Journalism Pioneers, Ada Crogman Franklin and Lucile Harris Bluford"


Jerry Bradley Award for Creative Writing


Gail Folkins, Texas Tech University

"Three-Cheek Kiss" (essay)


Diana Cox Award for Images of Women in Popular Culture


Jennifer Perrine, Florida State University

"A Cyborg Manifest: Haraway's Hybrids, Feminism, and the Alien Tetralogy"


Peter C. Rollins Award for Popular Culture


Shannon Hays, University of California, Davis

"Aesthetic Laxatives: Poetics and 'A Little Dogme Pill' "


The Charles Redd Center Award for Western Studies


Robin Somers, San Jose State University

"An All-American Indian Pedagogy for English 1A"


Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau Award for Southwestern Culture


Diana Meneses, Arizona State University

"Annie Antone and Terrol Johnson: Tohono O'odham Basket Weavers Creating Tradition"


Lawrence Clayton Award for Texas Culture


Carolyn Kennedy, Texas Tech University

"Home Sweet Home"


Kenneth Davis Award for Folklore Studies (Co-winners)


Melissa Huffman, Angelo State University

"Cultural Death and Renewal in Gloria Anzaldua's 'La Curandera' "


Matthew C. Schildt, Kent State University Stark Campus

"America Vernacular Music in Virgil Thomson's Score for 'The Plow That Broke the Plains' "



Other Winners:  2004  |  2003