Previous winners
David D. Anderson Award
2022
Award Winner
Nathaniel Mills, “Aggravated into Writing: Margaret Walker, Iowa, and the Workshopping of African American Literature.” American Quarterly, vol. 73, no. 2, 2021, pp. 233-259.
HONORABLE MENTION
T. Austin Graham, “The Unacknowledged War:’ Dunbar’s History of White Revisionism.” American Literature, vol. 93, no. 1, 2021, pp. 59–85.
Olga L. Herrera, “Across Neighborhood and National Boundaries: Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Mexican Chicago.” Chicago: A Literary History. Ed. Frederik Byrn Køhlert. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 387-399.
2021
Guest Judge: Dr. Theresa Delgadillo
Award Winner
Meg Gillette, “Keeping Queer Company in the Short Fiction of Alice French.” American Literary Realism, vol. 53, no. 2, 2021, pp. 138-158.
Honorable Mention
Lydia R. Cooper, “The Problem of Trans-Figuration: Gender, the Jesuits, and the Ojibwe in Louise Erdrich’s The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.” GLQ, vol. 26, no. 4, 2020, pp. 621-647.
Allison Hammer, “Epic Stone Butch: Transmasculinity in the Work of Willa Cather.” Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 7, no. 1, 2020, pp. 77-98.
2020
Guest Judge: Dr. Terrion Williamson
Award Winner
Mary Unger, “The Book Circle: Black Women Readers and Middlebrow Taste in Chicago, 1943-1953.” Reception, vol. 11, no. 1, 2019, pp. 8-20.
Honorable Mention
Evelyn Funda, "'New World' Visions and Homegrown Art: National Authenticity in the Works of Willa Cather and Antonin Dvorak." MFS Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 65, no. 2, 2019, pp. 264-284.
Vanessa Steinroetter, "Unsettling Landscapes: Prairie Madness and EcoGothic Themes in US Plains Literature." Great Plains Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, 2019, pp. 291-310.
2019
Guest Judge: Dr. Liesl Olson
Award Winner
Mollie Godfrey, “Sheep, Rats, and Jungle Beasts: Black Humanisms and the Protest Fiction Debate.” Arizona Quarterly, vol. 74, no. 2, 2018, pp. 39-62.
Honorable Mention
Sigrid Anderson Cordell, “Between Refugee and ‘Normalized’ Citizen: National Narratives of Exclusion in the Novels of Bich Minh Nguyen.” Studies in the Novel, vol. 49, no. 3, 2018, pp. 383-399.
Michelle Niemann, “Towards an Ecopoetics of Food: Plants, Agricultural Politics, and Colonized Landscapes in Lorine Niedecker’s Condensery.” Modernism/modernity, vol. 25, no. 1, 2018, pp. 135-160.
