Previous Winners
2021 Dr. Cindy Anh Nguyen
"Reading and Misreading: The Social Life of Libraries and Colonial Control in Vietnam, 1865-1958"
2019 Travis Ross
"History,Inc - Herbery Bancroft's History Co and the problem of Selling Past"
2017 Margaret Yu-Yin Hung
"English Public Libraries, 1919-1975: Vocation and Popularisation"
2015 Miriam Intrator
"Books Across Borders and Between Libraries: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural
Reconstruction, 1945-1951"
2013 Sharon McQueen
"The Story of ‘The Story of Ferdinand’: The Creation of a Cultural Icon"
2011 Susan Reynolds
"The Establishment of the Library of the Supreme Court of Victoria, 1851-1884: Antecedents,
Foundation, and Legacy"
2009 Karen J Cook
"Freedom Libraries in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project: A History"
2007 Not Awarded
2005 Bonnie Mak
"(re)Defining the Page for a Digital World"
2003 Not Awarded
2001 Mildred L. Jackson
"Do What You Can: Creating an Institution, Ladies’ Library Associations in Michigan, 1850-1900"
1999 Toby P. Graham
"Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Public Libraries, 1918-1965"
1998 Christine Pawley
"Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1870 to 1900"
Certificate of Merit
Christine Jenkins
"The Strength of the Inconspicuous: Youth Services Librarians, the American Library
Association, and Intellectual Freedom for the Young, 1939-1955"
1995 Marilyn Martin
"From Altruism to Activism: The Contribution of Women's Organizations to Arkansas
Public Libraries"
1993 Not Awarded
1991 Plummer Alston Jones Jr.
"American Public Library Service to the Immigrant Community, 1876-1948"