Past Award Winners By Year

Cratis D. Williams/ James S. Brown Service Award-

Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

Julia “Judy” Bonds

Jack Spadaro Documentary Award-

“On Coal River”

e-Appalachia Award-

Radical Roots in the Appalachian South; http://radicalrootsproject.org/radicalroots/home/index/html

Weatherford Awards-
Nonfiction: Alessandro Portelli for They Say in Harlan County
Fiction: Amy Greene for Bloodroot
Poetry: Lisa Parker for This Gone Place

Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Fellowship-

Suspended until 2012

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

Jack Wright

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

Eula Hall

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

Tracy Jarrell for“Sheep! Sheep Production in Watauga and Ashe Counties from the 1930’s to Today”

Jack Spadaro Documentary Award-

“Bonecrusher”

e-Appalachia Award- Journey up Coal River website; http://journeyupcoalriver.org
Weatherford Awards-
Nonfiction: Chris Green for The Social Life of Poetry
Fiction and Poetry: C.E. Morgan for All the Living

Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Fellowship-

Suspended until 2012

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

William H. Turner

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

Appalachian Voices

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

Kathryn Staley

Jack Spadaro Documentary Award-

No Award Given

e-Appalachia Award-

The Kentucky Artisan Heritage Trails Website; www.kaht.com

Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Fellowship-

Emily Satterwhite

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

Phillip J. Obermiller

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

Silas House

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

Kristin Kant for “Artists Minimizing Economic Uncertainty Through Cultural Commodification Strategies and Performances”

Jack Spadaro Documentary Award-

Anne Lewis for “Morristown”

e-Appalachia Award-

www.IlovemMountains.org

Weatherford Awards-
Nonfiction: James L. Lorence for A Hard Journey:

The Life of Don West
Fiction and Poetry:

Anne Pancake for Strange as the Weather Has Been

Wilma Dykeman “Faces of Appalachia” Fellowship:

Janet L. Justice-Crickmer

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

Ron Lewis

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

Gurney Norman

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

Esther White and Mzwandile Ginindza for “Shifting

Jack Spadaro Documentary Award-

Catherine Pancake for “Black Diamonds: Mountaintop Removal and the Fight for Coalfield Justice”

e-Appalachia Award-

No Award Information Available

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service

Award- Gordon McKinney

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

No Award Information Available

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

John Burch for “Fighting the War on Poverty in the Second Poorest County in the United States”

Jack Spadaro Documentary Award-

No Award Given

e-Appalachia Award-

Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition Website; www. ohvec.org

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

Lynda Ann Ewen; Michael Montgomery

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

(1) Our Common Heritage (Dayton) &

(2) Pam and Jerry Williamson

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

Kristin Patterson for “Stealing Democracy: Sheriff Biggs, the Good Government League, and Politics in Polk County, Tennessee, 1930-1948”

Jack Spadaro Documentary Award-

Robert Salyer for “Sludge”

e-Appalachia Award- Just Connections; www.ferrum.edu/aca/justconnections/

AboutJustConnections.htm

Weatherford Awards- Nonfiction:

Sharon Hatfield for Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell
Fiction and Poetry:

Darnell Arnoult for What Travels With Us: Poems

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

Patricia D. Beaver

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

Jack Spadaro

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

Emily Satterwhite for “That’s What They’re All Singing About: Embracing Appalachian Heritage, American Nationalism, and Celtic Pride at the 2003 Smithsonian Folklife Festival”

e-Appalachia Award-

Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia at Marshall University; www.marshall.edu/csega/index.asp

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

No Award Given

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

Southern Appalachian Labor School, Beard’s Fork WV

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

Matt Schroeder for “The Prison Paradox: Bushy Mountain Prison, The Early Years”

e-Appalachia Award-

The Christiansburg Institute; www.christiansburginstitute.org

Weatherford Awards- Nonfiction:

Wilma A. Dunaway for Slavery in the American Mountain South
Fiction and Poetry:

Gretchen Moran Laskas for The Midwife’s Tale

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award-

The Dayhoit Activists: Teri Blanton, Monetta Gross, Joan Robinette

Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award-

Alyson Baker for “The Flanary & Co. Store: A Century of Connections between Southern Appalachia and the Wider World”

e-Appalachia Award-

The Nantahala Review Website; www.nantahalareview.org

Weatherford Award-

John A. Williams for Appalachia: A History (Nonfiction)

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

Steve Fisher and Jerry Williamson

Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award (1st Year) -

Hindman Settlement School

e-Appalachia Award (1st Year)-

Judy Teaford and Tina Hanlon for their site for Readers and Teachers of Appalachian Literature for Children and Young Adults ; www.ferrum.edu/AppLit/

Weatherford Award-

John O’Brien for At Home in the Heart of Appalachia (Nonfiction)

Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award-

Howard Dorgan

Weatherford Award-

Dwight B. Billings and Kathleen M. Blee for The Road to Poverty (Nonfiction)