ASHR Awards

ASHR is pleased to present its Outstanding Mentor Award for the second time. ASHR also gives two student awards annually: the dissertation award and the outstanding student paper award. The student paper award is chosen from regular submissions to our conferences marked “Student.” For more information on recent recipients, please read on!

Past Winners

Mentor Award Recipients

• 2021 – Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis

Dissertation Award Recipients

• 2021 – Florianne “Bo” Jimenez, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Echoing and Resistant Imagining: Filipino Student Writing Under American Colonization”
• 2020 – Ryan Mitchell, “Private Parts, Public Selves: The Co-construction of Safe Sex Before the Discovery of HIV”
• 2019 – Rudo Robin Mudiwa, Indiana University: “The Prostitute as Citizen: Mobile Women, Urban Space, and the Threat of Disorder in Zimbabwe”
• 2018 – Karrieann Soto Vega, University of Kentucky: “Lolita Lebrón’s Rhetorics of Defiance to U.S. Empire”
• 2017 – Elizabeth Gardner, University of Maryland: “The Child Labor Movement’s Night Messenger Service Campaign: Rights and Reform in the Progressive Era”
• 2016 – Allison Prasch, University of Minnesota: “Constituting the Cold War Commonplace: U.S. Presidential Public Address and the Inventional Possibilities of Speaking in Situ”
• 2015 – Seth D. Long, University of Nebraska, Kearney
• 2014 – Allison Hailey Hahn, University of Pittsburgh
• 2013 – Jason Barrett-Fox, University of Kansas
• 2012 – Timothy Barney, University of Maryland
• 2011 – Carly Woods, University of Pittsburgh
• 2010 – Lisa Zimmerelli, University of Maryland
• 2009 – Kathleen Lamp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• 2008 – L. Jill Lamberton, University of Michigan
• 2007 – Vessela Valiavitcharska, University of Texas-Austin
• 2006 – Paul Turpin, Annenberg School of Communication, USC
• 2005 – Kristine S. Bruss, University of Minnesota
• 2004 – Shevaun A. Watson, Miami University of Ohio
• 2003 – Cynthia King, University of Maryland
• 2002 – Daniel Emery, University of Iowa
• 2001 – David Hoffman, University of Iowa
• 2000 – Robert Sullivan, University of Maryland
• 1999 – Ekaterina Haskins, University of Iowa
• 1998 – Sara Newman, University of Minnesota
• 1997 – Mari Lee Mifsud, Penn State University
• 1996 – Gary Selby, University of Maryland
• 1995 – Robert Stephen Reid, University Washington

Outstanding Student Paper Awards

• 2021 – Jennifer Woolley, Ohio University, “Complicating Culpability: Planned Parenthood’s Historical Apologia on Margaret Sanger”
• 2020 – Natalie Bennie, Penn State University, “Enlightenment How? The Reception of Cicero and the Repetition of Judeophobia in the French Enlightenment”
• 2019 – Marissa G. Croft, Northwestern University: “An Object Worthy of the Attention of a Sensible Republican”: Establishing the Characteristics of a Revolutionary Republican Political Style through the Costume Reform Project of the Société Populaire et Républicaine des Arts (1793-1795)
• 2018 – Krista L. Klocke, Iowa State University: “Sacred Kairos and Secular Chronos: Angelina Grimke’s Negotiation of the Temporal and Eternal in the ‘Pennsylvania Hall Address'”
• 2017 – Adam Cody, Pennsylvania State University: “The Porous Polis: Comedy and Commonality in Ancient Athens”
• 2016 – Adam Cody, Pennsylvania State University: “The Political Use of the Part and the Whole in Lysias 12 Against Eratosthenes”
• 2015 – Jessica A. Kurr, Pennsylvania State University
• 2014 – Justine Wells, University of South Carolina
• 2013 – Liz Miller, University of Kansas; John Jasso, University of Pittsburgh
• 2012 – Ian Hill, University of Illinois
• 2011 – John Minbiole, Penn State University
• 2010 – Brandon Inabinet, Northwestern University
• 2009 – Matthew May, University of Minnesota
• 2007 – Benjamin Crosby, University of Washington
• 2006 – Michelle Gibbons, University of Pittsburgh
• David Tell, Penn State University
• 2005 – Randall E. Iden, Northwestern University
• 2004 – Noriaki Tajima, University of Alabama; Kristine S. Bruss, University of Minnesota
• 2003 – Ned O’ Gorman, Penn State University
• 2002 – Laura Card, University of Utah
• 2001 – Beth Manolescu, University of Illinois
• 2000 – Ekaterina Haskins, University of Iowa
• 1999 – Mari Lee Mifsud, Penn State University