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
2009 - William H. Turner

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

2009 - Appalachian Voices

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"

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"

2009 - Kathryn Staley

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

2005 - Just Connections; http://www.ferrum.edu/aca/justconnections/About Just Connections.htm

2007 -

2008 - http://www.IloveMountains.org

2009 - The Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails Website; http://www.kaht.com

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 - Non-fiction: Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia
2007 - Fiction and Poetry: Dot Jackson for Refuge

2008 - Non-fiction: James J. Lorence for A Hard Journey: The Life of Don West.
2008 - Fiction and Poetry: Ann Pancake for Strange as the Weather Has Been.

2009 - Non-fiction: Ronald D Eller, Uneven Ground
2009 - Fiction and Poetry: Ron Rash, Serena

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

Wilma Dykeman "Faces of Appalachia" Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship

2009 - Emily Satterwhite