The Appalachian Studies Association was formed in 1977 by a group of scholars, teachers, and regional activists who believed that shared community has been and will continue to be important to those writing, researching, and teaching about Appalachia.
The 35th ASA Annual Conferece in 2012
March 23-25, 2012
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Past Award Winners By Year
1999
Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award- Grace Toney Edwards |
Weatherford Award- Loyal Jones for Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands (Nonfiction) |
Special Weatherford Award- Sidney Saylor Farr and Jerry W. Williamson |
1998
Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award (Renamed after the death of James S. Brown) - Roberta Herrin |
Weatherford Award- Homer Hickam, Jr. for Rocket Boys: A Memoir (Nonfiction) |
1997
Cratis D. Williams Service Award - James S. Brown |
Weatherford Award- Charles Frazier for Cold Mountain |
1996
Cratis D. Williams Service Award - Helen Lewis |
Weatherford Award- Wilma A. Dunaway for The First American Frontier |
Special Weatherford Award- Loyal Jones |
1995
Cratis D. Williams Service Award - No Award Given |
Weatherford Award- Deborah Vansau McCauley for Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History (Nonfiction) |
1994
Cratis D. Williams Service Award - Jack Higgs |
Weatherford Award- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. for Colored People: A Memoir (Nonfiction) |
1993
Cratis D. Williams Service Award - Richard Drake and Loyal Jones |
Weatherford Award- No Award Given |
1992
Weatherford Award- Denise Giardina for The Unquiet Earth |
1991
Weatherford Award- Crandall A. Shifflett for Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880-1960 (Nonfiction) |
1990
Weatherford Award- Helen Lewis and Susanna O’Donnell for Remembering Our Past, Building Our Future (Nonfiction) |
1989
Weatherford Award- John Inscoe for Mountain Masters, Slavery, and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (Nonfiction) |
1988
Weatherford Award- Lee Smith for Fair and Tender Ladies (Fiction) |
Special Weatherford Award- Alfred Perrin |
1987
Weatherford Awards- Nonfiction: Rodger Cunningham for Apples on the Flood: The Southern Mountain Experience Denise Giardina for Storming Heaven |
1986
Weatherford Award- Martin Cherniack for The Hawk’s Nest Incident (Nonfiction) |
1985
Weatherford Award- Elliot Wigginton for Sometimes a Shining Moment |
Special Weatherford Award- Albert Stewart, Certificate of Achievement |
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1984
Carl A. Ross Student Paper Award- John Inscoe for “Diversity and Vitality in the Antebellum Mountain Society: The Towns of Western North Carolina” |
Weatherford Award- John Ehle for Last One Home (Fiction) |
1983
Weatherford Award- John Edgerton for Generations (Nonfiction) |
1982
Weatherford Award- Ronald Eller for Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers (Nonfiction) |
1981
Weatherford Award- David Corbin for Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields (Nonfiction) |
1980
Weatherford Award- John Gaventa for Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in An Appalachian Valley (Nonfiction) |
1979
Weatherford Award- Thomas J. Schoenbaum for The New River Controversy (Nonfiction) |
Special Weatherford Award- Cratis Williams |
1978
Weatherford Award- John W. Hevener for Which Side Are You On? (Nonfiction) and Henry D. Shapiro for Appalachia on Our Mind (Nonfiction) |
Special Weatherford Award- Harriette Simpson Arnow |
1977
Weatherford Award- Gurney Norman for Kinfolks Laurel Shackelford (Nonfiction) and Bill Weinberg for Our Appalachia (Nonfiction) |
Special Weatherford Award- James Still |
1976
Weatherford Award- Kai T. Erickson for Everything in its Path (Nonfiction) |
Special Weatherford Award- Harry Caudill |
1975
Weatherford Award- Bryan Woolley and Ford Reid for We Be Here When Morning Comes (Nonfiction) |
Special Weatherford Award- Jesse Stuart |
1974
Weatherford Award- No award given |
1973
Weatherford Award- Barry Bingham, Jr. of the Courier-Journal for thorough, persistant, and influential reporting on Appalachia |
Special Weatherford Award- Wilma Dykeman |
1972
Weatherford Award- Eliot Wigginton and the students of Robun Gap, Nacoochee School for The Foxfire Book (Nonfiction) |
Special Weatherford Award- Robert Coles, M.D. |
1971
Weatherford Award- David H. Looff for Appalachia’s Children |
1970
Weatherford Award- Ben A. Franklin of the New York Times for his series of articles on Appalachia |