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

Submission information for each category

Peter C. Rollins Award for Popular Culture
Shannon Hays, University of California-Davis's Comparative Literature Program, “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
(New this year)
Diana Meneses, Arizona State University Department of History, “Annie Antone and Terrol Johnson: Tohono O'odham Basket Weavers Creating Tradition”

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”

Phyllis Bridges Award for Biography Studies
Amy Hart, Central Missouri State University, “Answering The Call: Kansas City Journalism Pioneers, Ada Crogman Franklin and Lucile Harris Bluford”

Mike K. Shoenecke Award for American Culture
Dana Byrd, University of Deleware/Winterthur Museum, “Way Finding: Work, Space and Evangelism at a Truck Stop Chapel”

Kenneth Davis Award for Folklore Studies
(Two winners)
Melissa Huffman, Angelo State University, “Cultural Death and Renewal in Gloria Anzaldúa's 'La Curandera'”
Matthew C Schildt, Kent State University Stark Campus, “American Vernacular Music in Virgil Thomson's Score for The Plow That Broke the Plains”

Jerry Bradley Award for Creative Writing
Gail Folkins, Texas Tech University, “Three-Cheek Kiss” (essay)

Lawrence Clayton Award for Texas Culture
Carolyn Kennedy, Texas Tech University, “Home Sweet Home”

Other Winners:  2007  |  2006  |  2004  |  2003

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