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

Submission information for each category

Michael K. Schoenecke Award for American Culture
Melissa Elston, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
“Xerxes in Drag: Post-9/11 Marginalization and (Mis) Identification in 300”

Jerry Bradley Award for Creative Writing
Annie Christain, University of South Dakota
“Prequel to Genesis and the Missing Second Book: Coral Castel” and “All the Host of Them”

Diana Cox Award for Images of Women
Suzanne Bouclin, McGill University
“Dialogical Relationships between Film and Law: Women in Prison Films”

Peter C. Rollins Award for Best Graduate Paper on Popular Culture (Co-Winners)
David Boyles, Arizona State University
“Where Everybody Knows His Name: Shakespearean Citation, Race and Cultural Memory on Cheers”

Andrew Daigle, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Mixtapes: Juxtaposing Fragmented Records for a Hybrid Hip Hop Culture”

The Charles Redd Center Award for Western Studies
Matthew Nelson, University of New Mexico
“Navajo Area Indian Health Service: Balancing Wellness and Tradition”

Lawrence Clayton Award for Texas Culture
Erik Anderson, Brown University
“Nature's Captive: The Wild People Narratives of Jackson County, Texas as Captivity Narratives”

Euro Pop Award  [Sponsored by Jack Hutchens]
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, University of California, San Diego
“An invincible Czech horde’: Moravian folklore, Modernity, Resurgences”

Kenneth Davis Folklore Award
Jacquilyn Weeks, University of Notre Dame
“The North Wind of the Fairy Stories Ringing in My  Ears”: Fairy Tales in the Poetry of Anne Sexton and Susan Howe”

Other Winners:  2007  |  2006  |  2005  |  2004  |  2003

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