2012 Graduate Student Award Winners
Albuquerque Convention and Visitors Bureau Award for Southwestern Culture
Judges: Ken Dvorak and Julie Anne Taddeo
Katie Councilor (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Alice Stevens Tipton’s The Original New Mexico Cookery and the Rhetoric of Food in Modernizing New Mexico”
Computer Culture and Game Studies Award
Judges: Joseph Chaney and Andrew Chen
Jenna Nicole Pack (University of Arizona)
“From the Page to the Screen: Towards a Model of Interactivity in Reading Practices”
Diana Cox Award for Images of Women
Judge: Monica Ganas
Ila Tyagi (Columbia University)
“Women Are What Women Eat: Femininity and Food in Bridesmaids”
Euro Pop Award for European Cultural Issue
Judge: Jack Hutchens
Jacqueline H. Harris (University of Nebraska, Lincoln)
“The Animal and Human Soul: Performing Evolution and Fear in Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ and Gustave Doré’s Fairy Tale Illustrations”
Kenneth Davis Award for Folklore Studies
Judge: James Bell
Elaine Cho (Texas Woman’s University)
“Understanding Korean Shamanism and Its Folkloric Functions”
Michael K. Schoenecke Award for American Culture
Judge: Diana Cox
Carin Jorgensen (University of St. Thomas)
“Scalpel to Sketch: the History of Medical Illustrations at the Turn of the Century”
Peter C. Rollins Award for Popular Culture Issue
Judges: Lynnea Chapman King and Rhonda Harris Taylor
Annie Sugar (University of Colorado, Boulder)
“This Bud’s Not For You: Feminine Images and Omission in Television Beer Commercials for Generation X”
Phyllis Bridges Award for Biography
Judge: Melinda McBee
Julie Williams (University of New Mexico)
“Female Embodiment and the Western Landscape in The Story of Mary MacLane”
Post Script Graduate Student Award in Film Studies
Judges: Lynnea Chapman King and Tobias Hochscherf
Tie for 2012:
Steven Malcic (University of California, Santa Barbara)
“Redistributing the Spectacle: Montage and Detournement in the Synecdochic Regime”
Mihaela Mihailova (Yale University)
“You Were Not So Very Different from a Hobbit Once: Motion Capture as an Estrangement Device in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy”
Richard Tuerk “Out of This World” Paper Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy
Judge: Tamy Burnett
Dibyadyuti Roy (West Virginia University)
“Reconfiguring Post-nuclear Apocalyptic Spaces: Allegories of Hyperliteracy in The Book of Eli and The Matrix”
Awards not issued in 2012:
Charles Redd Center Award for Western Studies
Judge: Dennis Cutchins
Jerry Bradley Award for Creative Writing
Judge: Nathan Brown
Lawrence Clayton Award for Texas Culture
Judge: Kenneth Davis
Susan Rollins Award for Museum Studies and Public History
Judges: Janet Brennan Croft and Rhonda Harris Taylor