Past
ASA Award Winners
Previous Winners of the Cratis
D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award
(Cratis D. Williams Service Award instituted
in 1993)
1993 - Richard Drake and Loyal Jones
1994 - Jack Higgs
1995 - no award made
1996 - Helen Lewis
1997 - James S. Brown
(Award renamed Cratis D. Williams/James
S. Brown Service Award in 1998)
1998 - Roberta Herrin
1999 - Grace Toney Edwards
2000 - Howard Dorgan
2001 - Steve Fisher and Jerry Williamson
2004 - Patricia D. Beaver
2005 - Lynda Ann Ewen and Michael Montgomery
2006 - Gordon McKinney
2007 - Ron Lewis
2008 - Phillip J. Obermiller
Previous Winners of the Helen M.
Lewis Community Service Award
2001 - Hindman Settlement School
2002 -The Dayhoit Activists: Teri Blanton, Monetta Gross,
and Joan Robinette
2003 - Southern Appalachian Labor School (SALS), Beards
Fork, WV
2004 - Jack Spadaro
2005 - (1) Our Common Heritage (Dayton) & (2) Pam
and Jerry Williamson
2007 - Gurney Norman
2008 - Silas House
Previous Winners of the Carl A.
Ross Paper Award
2002 - Alyson Baker: " ‘The Flanary & Co. Store: A Century of Connections Between Southern Appalachia and the Wider World"
2003 - Matt Schroeder: "The Prison Paradox: Bushy Mountain Prison, the Early Years"
2004 - Emily Satterwhite: " ‘That's What They're All Singing About': Embracing Appalachian Heritage, American Nationalism, and Celtic Pride at the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival"
2005 - Kristin Patterson, "Stealing Democracy: Sheriff Biggs, the Good Government League, And Politics in Polk County, Tennessee, 1930-1948"
2006 - John R. Burch; "Fighting the War on Poverty in the Second Poorest County in the United States"
2007 - Esther White and Mzwandile Ginindza from Berea College for their paper entitled “Shifting Paradigms: The Future of Economic Development in Appalachia”
2008 - Kristin Kant "Artists Minimizing Economic Uncertainty Through Cultural Commodification Strategies and Performances"
Previous Winners of the e-Appalachia
Award
2001 - Resources for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults; Judy Teaford and Tina Hanlon; www.ferrum.edu/AppLit/
2002 - Nantahala Review; www.nantahalareview.org
2003 - Christiansburg Institute; www.christiansburginstitute.org
2004 - Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University; http://www.marshall.edu/csega/index.asp
2005 - Just Connections; http://www.ferrum.edu/aca/justconnections/About Just Connections.htm
2007 -
2008 - http://www.IloveMountains.org
Previous Winners of the Media Arts
Award
2005 - Robert Salyer for Sludge
2007 - Catherine Pancake for Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal & the Fight for Coalfield Justice
2008 - Morristown: Anne Lewis
Previous Winners of the Weatherford
Award
1970 - Ben A. Franklin of the New York Times for his series of articles on Appalachia
1971 - David H. Looff - Appalachia's Children
1972 - Eliot Wigginton and students of Rabun Gap - Nacoochee School - The Foxfire Book
1973 - Barry Bingham, Jr., of the Courier-Journal for thorough, persistent and influential reporting on Appalachia
1974 - No award given
1975 - Bryan Woolley and Ford Reid - We Be Here When the Morning Comes
1976 - Kai T. Erikson - Everything in Its Path
1977 - Gurney Norman - Kinfolks Laurel Shackelford and Bill Weinberg - Our Appalachia
1978 - John W. Hevener - Which Side Are You On? and Henry D. Shapiro - Appalachia On Our Mind
1979 - Thomas J. Schoenbaum - The New River Controversy
1980 - John Gaventa - Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in An Appalachian Valley
1981 - David Corbin - Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields
1982 - Ronald Eller - Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers
1983 - John Egerton - Generations
1984 - John Ehle - Last One Home
1985 - Eliot Wigginton - Sometimes A Shining Moment
1986 - Martin Cherniack - The Hawk's Nest Incident
1987 - Denise Giardina - Storming Heaven and Rodger Cunningham - Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience
1988 - Lee Smith - Fair and Tender Ladies
1989 - John Inscoe - Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina
1990 - Helen Lewis and Susanna O'Donnell - Remembering Our Past, Building Our Future
1991 - Crandall A. Shifflett - Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960
1992 - Denise Giardina - The Unquiet Earth
1993 - No award given
1994 - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Colored People: A Memoir
1995 - Deborah Vansau McCauley - Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History
1996 - Wilma A. Dunaway - The First American Frontier
1997 Charles Frazier - Cold Mountain
1998 - Homer Hickam, Jr. - Rocket Boys: A Memoir
1999 - Loyal Jones - Faith & Meaning in the Southern Uplands
2000 - Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee - The Road To Poverty
2001 - John O'Brien - At Home in the Heart of Appalachia
2002 - John A. Williams - Appalachia
2003 - Non-Fiction - Wilma A. Dunaway - Slavery in the American Mountain South
2003 - Fiction and Poetry - Gretchen Moran Laskas - The Midwife’s Tale
2004 - Non-Fiction - Michael Montgomery - Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English
2004 - Fiction and Poetry - Ron Rash - Saints at the River
2005 – Non-Fiction – Sharon Hartfield - Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell
2005 – Fiction and Poetry – Darnell Arnoult - What Travels With Us: Poems
2007 - Fiction: Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia
2007 - Fiction and Poetry: Dot Jackson for Refuge
2008 - Fiction and Poetry: Ann Pancake for Strange as the Weather Has Been.
2008 - Non-fiction: James J. Lorence for A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West.
Special Weatherford Award Winners
1972 Robert Coles, M.D.
1973 Wilma Dykeman
1975 Jesse Stuart
1976 Harry Caudill
1977 James Still
1978 Harriette Simpson Arnow
1979 Cratis Williams
1985 Albert Stewart, Certificate of Achievement
1988 Alfred Perrin
1996 Loyal Jones
1999 Sidney Saylor Farr and Jerry W. Williamson
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