2024-2025
Amanda Breitbach. Stephen F. Austin State University. “Oil and Water.”
George T. Díaz. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. “Mañana Land: Life and Death in a Mexican Prison in Texas.”
Randy Gonzales. University of Louisiana at Lafayette. “Filipino Louisiana Foodways Oral History Project.” Dr. Gonzales won the 2024 Summerlee Prize—Creative for his book of poetry Settling St. Malo (2023).
Karla A. Lira. University of Houston. “For the City: Blacks & Latinx University of Houston Athletes.”
Aaron Moulton. Stephen F. Austin State University. “The ‘Communist Hand’ in Cuba and Birmingham.”
Demetrius W. Pearson. University of Houston. “Black Salt-Grass Rodeo Cowboys.”
A. J. Perez. Pennsylvania State University. “Yucatán, Texas, and the Limits of US Expansionism, 1821-1860.”
Halee R. Robinson. Princeton University. “Race, Community, and Freedom in the Texas Penal System, 1865–1912.”
Ann Ngoc Tran. University of Southern California. “The Ark is Already Gone: A History of Boat Refugee Non-Arrival.”