| Year |
Recipient |
Essay |
Committee |
| 2011 |
Nicolas Argenti |
“Things that Don’t Come by the Road: Folktales, Fosterage, and Memories of Slavery in the Cameroon Grassfields,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 52. |
Robbie Ethridge, (Chair)Rebecca Horn
Eric V Meeks |
| 2010 |
Kathleen Wilson |
“The Performance of Freedom: Maroons and the Colonial Order in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica and the Atlantic Sound” Wm and Mary Quarterly |
David Dinwoodie (Chair)Monte Kugel Mary Ellen Kelm |
| 2009 |
2009 Karen E. Richman |
“Innocent Imitations: Authenticity and Mimesis in Haitian Vodou Arts, Tourism, and Anthropology” Ethnohistory Spring 2008. |
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| 2008 |
Brian Delay |
“The Wider World of the Handsome Man: Southern Plains Indians Invade Mexico, 1830-1848.”
Journal of the Early Republic 27, no.1 (Spring 2007): 83-113 |
Laura Lewis
Alan Durston
Linea Sundstrom |
| 2007 |
Heidi Bohaker |
“Nindoodemag: The Significance of Algonquian Kinship Networks in the Eastern Great Lakes Region, 1600-1701,” The William and Mary Quarterly 63.1 (2006), 23-52. |
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| 2006 |
Miranda Warburton & Richard M. Begay |
“An Exploration of Navajo-Anasazi Relationships” Ethnohistory 52: 3 (Summer 2005), 533-61. |
Rebecca (Monte) Kugel (chair), Maureen Schwartz, Patrick J. McNamara. |
| 2005 |
Peter M Whiteley |
“Bartering Pahos with the President“
Ethnohistory 51:2 (Spring 2004) pp359-414 |
Larry Nesper (chair), Joshua Piker, David Tavarez |
| 2004 |
Lisa Sousa & Kevin Terraciano |
“The ‘Original Conquest’ of Oaxaca: Nahua and Mixtec Accounts of the Spanish Conquest.” Ethnohistory 50:2 (Spring 2003) |
Williams Swagerty (chair), Carolyn Anderson, and Charles Hudson. |
| 2003 |
Linea Sundstrom |
“Steel Awls for Stone Age Plainswomen: Rock Art, Religion, and the Hide Trade on the Northern Plains.” Plains Anthropologist 47: 99-119. |
Colin Calloway (Chair), Greg O’Brien, and Paige Raibmon. |
| 2002 |
Jeffrey C. Kaufmann |
“La Question des Raketa: Colonial Struggles with Prickly Pear Cactus in Southern Madagascar, 1900-1923.” Ethnohistory 48, 87-121. |
James Taylor Carson (Chair), Brenda Child, and Frank Salomon. |
| 2001 |
Paige Raibmon |
“Theatres of Contact: The Kwakwaka’wakw Meet Colonialism in British Columbia and at the Chicago World’s Fair.” Canadian Historical Review 82(2): 157-90. |
Patricia Galloway, Chair, William Hart, and Susan Sleeper-Smith. |
| 2000 |
Meredith McKittrick |
“Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother: Transgression and Social Control in Colonial Namibia.” Journal of African History 40: 265-283. |
Rayna Green, Chair, Gregory Dowd, and Judith Zeitlin. |
| 1999 |
Kevin Terraciano |
“Crime and Culture in Colonial Mexico: The Case of the Mixtec Murder Note.” Ethnohistory 45, #3 (1998): 709-745. |
Nancy Shoemaker, Chair, Steven Crum, Laura Peers |
| 1998 |
Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau |
“The Right to a Name: The Narrangansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era.” Ethnohistory 44(3):433-462 (1997). |
Regna Darnell, chair; Susan Kellogg, and Peter Mancall
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| 1997 |
Tamara Giles-Vernick |
“Na lege ti guiriri (On the Road of History): Mapping Out the Past and Present in M’Bres Region, Central African Republic.” Ethnohistory 43(2):245-275 (1996). |
Regna Darnell, chair; Nancy Shoemaker, and Kevin Terraciano
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| 1996 |
Janet Carsten |
“The politics of forgetting: Migration, kinship and memory on the periphery of the Southeast Asian state.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 1:317-335 (1995). |
John D. Monaghan, chair; Pauline Turner Strong, and Kenneth M. Morrison |
| 1995 |
Julie Cruikshank |
“Claiming Legitimacy: Prophecy Narratives from Northern Aboriginal Women.” American Indian Quarterly 18:147-167 (1994). |
Pauline Strong, chair; Susan Deeds, and Peter Wood |
| 1994 |
David Nugent |
“Property relations, production relations, and inequality: Anthropology, political economy, and the Blackfeet.” American Ethnologist 20(2): 336-362 (May 1993). |
Frederic Hicks, chair; Kathryn Braund, and Thomas Biolsi |
| 1993 |
John Steckley |
“The warrior and the lineage: Jesuit use of Iroquoian images to communicate Christianity.” Ethnohistory 39(4):478-509 (Fall 1992). |
Mary Druke Becker, chair; Robert M. Hill II, and John F.S. Phinney
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| 1992 |
Inga Clendinnen |
“‘Fierce and unnatural cruelty’: Cortés and the conquest of Mexico.” Representations 33:65-100 (Winter 1991). |
Colin G. Calloway, chair; Gertrude C. Nicks, and Louise Burkhart |
| 1991 |
Harold W. Van Lonkhuyzen |
“A reappraisal of the praying Indians: Acculturation, conversion, and identity at Natick, Massachusetts, 1646 – 1730.” New England Quarterly 63(1):396-428 (1990). |
Sergei Kan, chair; Getrude C. Nicks, and Barbara Angel |
| 1990 |
Ronald R. Atkinson |
“The evolution of ethnicity among the Acholi of Uganda: The precolonial phase.” Ethnohistory 36(1):19-43 (Winter 1989). |
John E. Kicza, chair; Toby Morantz, and Sergei Kan
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| 1989 |
Irene Silverblatt |
“Imperial Dilemmas, the Politics of Kinship, and Inca Reconstruction of History.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 30(1):83-102 (1988). |
Neal Salisbury, chair; Jay Miller, and John E. Kicza
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| 1988 |
Robert McC. Netting |
“Clashing Cultures, Clashing Symbols: Histories and Meanings of the Latok War.” Ethnohistory 34(4):352-380 (1987). |
Ross Hassig, chair; Frederick E. Hoxie, and Peter A. Thomas |
| 1987 |
Sergei Kan |
“19th Century Tlingit Potlatch: A New Perspective.” American Ethnologist 13(2):191-229 (1986). |
Peter Iverson, chair; Frederick E. Hoxie, and Kathleen J. Bragdon |
| 1986 |
Douglas R. Parks and Waldo R. Wedel |
“Pawnee Geography: Historical and Sacred.” Great Plains Quarterly 5(3):143-176 (1985). |
Elizabeth J. Glenn, chair; Peter Iverson, Juan Villamarin, and Judy Villamarin |
| 1985 |
James H. Merrill |
“The Indian’s New World: The Catawba Experience.” William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. 41(Oct.):537-565 (1984). |
Elizabeth J. Glenn, chair; Peter Iverson, and Grant Jones |
| 1984 |
Jacqueline Peterson |
“Ethnogenesis: Settlement and Growth of a ‘New People’.” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 6(2) (1982, published 1983). |
William T. Hagan, chair; Elizabeth J. Glenn, and Janet B. Esser |
| 1983 |
Sylvia Broadbent |
“The Transformation of Peasant Society in Central Columbia.” Ethnohistory 28(3):259-277 (1981, published 1982). |
Mary Helms, chair; William T. Hagan, and Raymond J. DeMallie
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| 1982 |
Grant D. Jones |
“Symbolic Dramas of Ethnic Stratification: The Yucatecan Fiesta System on a Colonial Frontier.” Papers in Anthropology 22 (1) (1981). |
Dean R. Snow, chair; Mary Helms, and William R. Swagerty |
| 1981 |
Lynn Ceci |
“Watchers of the Pleiades: Ethnoastronomy among Native Cultivators in Northeastern North America.” Ethnohistory 25(4):301-317 (1978, published 1980). |
Calvin Martin, chair; Helen Hornbeck Tanner, and Henry B. Nicholson |
