Immigration and Ethnic History Society - Awards

Past Award Winners

	Past Winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Year
2002	Higham , John
2008	Vecoli, Rudolph J.
2008	Roger, Daniels
2009	Green, Victor

	Past Winners of the Distinguished Service Award of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Year
1985	Qualey , Carlton A.
1987	Wade, Louise
1988	Vecoli, Rudolph J.
1992	Bayor, Ronald H.
2000	Alexander, June
2002	Higham, John
2009	Bergquist, James

	Past Winners of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Theodore Saloutos Book Award
Year
1983	Butler, Jon. The Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
1984	Wyman., David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. New York: Pantheon Books.
1985	Gjerde, Jon. From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway to the Upper Midwest. New York. Cambridge University Press. Miller, Kerby A. Emigrants and Exiles and the Irish Exodus to North America. New York: Oxford University Press.
1986	Bailyn, Bernard. Voyagers to The West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
1987	Mormino, Gary R. and Pozzetta, George E. The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
1988	Ostergren, Robert C. A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Midwest, 1835-1915. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
1989	Fischer, David Hackett. Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America. New York: Oxford University Press.
1990	Helweg, Arthur M. and Helweg, Usha M. An Immigrant Success Story: East Indians in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
1991	Fuchs, Lawrence H. The American Kaleidoscope: Race, Ethnicity, and the Civic Culture. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.
1992	Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
1993	Sanchez, George J. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945. New York: Oxford University Press.
1994	Kraut, Alan M. Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the “Immigrant Menace.” New York: Basic Books.
1995	Salyer, Lucy E. Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1996	Morawska, Ewa. Insecure Prosperity: Small-Town Jews in Industrial America, 1890-1940. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
1997	Gjerde, Jon. The Minds of the West: Ethnocultural Evolution in the Rural Middle West, 1830-1917. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1998	Gyory, Andrew. Closing the Gate: Race, Politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
1999	Games, Alison. Migration and the Origgins of the English Atlantic World. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press.
2000	Foner, Nancy. From Ellis Island to JFK: New York’s Two Great Waves of Immigration. New Haven: Yale University Press.
2001	Gerstle, Gary. American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
2002	Greenbaum. Susan. More Than Black: Afro-Cubans in Tampa. Gainsville, FL: University Press of Florida.
2003	Lee, Erika. At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
2004	Ngai, Mae. Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2005	Azuma, Eiichiro. Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America. New York: Oxford University Press.
2006	Goldstein, Eric. The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and the American Identity. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2007	Barkan, Elliott. From All Points: America’s Immigrant West, 1870s-1952. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
2008	Varzally, Allyson. Making a Non-White America: Californians Coloring Outside Ethnic Lines, 1925-1955. The University of California Press.
2009	Anna Pegler Gordon. In Sight of America: Photography and the Development of U.S. Immigration Policy. The University of California Press.

	Past Recipients of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society Qualey Prize For the Outstanding Article in the Journal of American Ethnic History
Year
1987-1988	Barry Chiswick, “The Labor Market Status of Hispanic Men” 7 (Fall, 1987)
1989-1990	Victor A. Walsh, “‘Drowning the Shramrock’: Drink, Teetotalism, and the Irish Catholics of Gilded-Age Pittsburgh” 10 (Fall 1990 -Winter1991)
1991-1992	K Scott Wong, “Liang Qichao and the Chinese of America : A Re-evaluation of his Selected Memoir of Travels in the New World,” 11 (Summer 1992)
1993-1994	Bettye Collier-Thomas and James Turner, “Race, Class and Color: The African American Discourse on Identity,” 14 (Fall 1994)
1995-1996	Cherly Greenberg, “Black and Jewish Response to Japanese Internment,” 14 (Winter 1995).
1997-1998	James R. Barrett and David R. Roediger, “Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the ‘New Immigrant’ Working Class” 16 (Spring 1997)
2001-2002	Edward J.M. Rhoads for “’White Labor’ vs. ‘Coolie Labor’: The ‘Chinese Question’ in Pennsylvania in the 1870s,” JAEH, 21:2 (Winter 2002).
2003-2004	Russell A. Kazal for “The Interwar Origins of the White Ethnic: Race, Residence and German Philadelphia, 1917-1939, JAEH, 23:4 (Summer 2004), 78-131.
2005-2006	David Roediger and James Barnett for “The Irish and the ‘Americanization’ of New Immigrants in the streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930” JAEH (Summer 2005).
2007-2008	Sam Erman, for "Meanings of Citizenship in the U.S. Empire: Puerto Rico, Isabel Gonzalez, and the Supreme Court, 1898-1905,” JAEH, 27:4 (Summer 2008).


	Past Recipients of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Research Award
Year
1996	Russell Kazal (University of Pennsylvania) “Becoming Old Stock: Religion and the Waning of German-American Identity in Philadelphia, 1900-1930.”
1997	Nancy C. Carnevale (Rutgers University) “Living in Translation: Language and Italian Immigrants in the U.S., 1900-1968.”
1998	Richard Sukjoo Kim (University of Michigan) “The Dialecttics of Nationalism and Ethnicity: Korean Immigration to the United States and Transnational Politics, 1882-1945.”
1999	Serena Ruth Zabin (Rutgers University) “Places of Exchange: Race, Gender and New York City, 1700-1765.”
2000	Daniel A. Gebler (University of Southern California) "Redefining Jewish Space in Los Angeles: Negotiating Identity in a Twentieth Century American Metropolis."
2001	Anna Pegler-Gorden (university of Michigan) “In Sight of America: Photography and U.S. Immigration Policy, 1880-1930”
2002	Jennifer Guglielmo (University of Minnesota) “Negotiating Gender, Race, and Coalition: Italian Women and Working-Class Politics in new York City, 1880-1914”
2003	Vadim Koukouchkine (Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario) “Peasants on the Move: Slavic Labour Migration from the Russian Empire to Canada”
2004	Julia Maria Schiavone Camacho (University of Texas, El Paso) “Mexicans and Chinese in the Formation of Gender, Race and Nation in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, 1910-1940)
2005	David J. LaVigne (University of Minnesota) “Black Mesabi: Race, Ethnicity and Nation on the Mesabi Iron Range” AND John W. Weber III, (College of William and Mary) “The Shadow of the Revolution: South Texas, the Mexican American Working Class”
2006	Arissa H. Oh (University of Chicago) “Into the Arms of America: Adoption from Korea, 1950-1969”
2007	Rachel Kranson (New York University) “Grappling with the Good Life: Anxieties of Jewish Affluence and Consumption in Postwar America, 1945-1967”
2008	Danielle Battisti (SUNY, Buffalo) “Manipulating Immigration Restriction in Postwar America: Italian Americans and Italian Immigration, 1945-1965”
2009	Hidetaka Hirota: “’To any place beyond sea where he belongs’: Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1848-1877”


	Past Recipients of The OAH-IEHS John Higham Travel Grant
Year
2005	Victoria Cain, Columbia University ;
	Christopher McKnight Nicols, University of Virginia
	Nicholas G. Rosenthal, University of California, Los Angeles
2006	Brian Behnken, University of California, Davis
	Evan Matthew Daniel, New School for Social Research
	Robert McGreevey, Brandeis University
2007	Magdalena Marinari, University of Kansas
	Erick Schlereth, Brandeis University
	Stephen Mak, Northwestern University
2008	Gustavo Licon, University of Southern California
	Stacy L. Bondurant, George Washington University
	Mayumi Hoshino, Indiana University
2009	Hidetaka Hirota, Boston College
	Donald W. Maxwell, Indiana University
	Elaine Nelson, University of New Mexico

February 22, 2012