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Award Winners
Each year, the Appalachian Studies Association presents the following awards at the Appalachian Studies Conference. Past award winners are listed by year and award. For quick lookups, type a year, name, or title of work into the search bar.
Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships
Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award
Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award
Jack Spadaro Documentary Award
Stephen L. Fisher Award for Excellence in Teaching
Carl A. Ross Appalachian Student Paper Award
Wilma Dykeman "Faces of Appalachia" Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Cratis D. Williams/James S. Brown Service Award
2025 Winner(s): Dr. Sandra Ballard
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
CRATIS
Weatherford Awards
2024 Winner(s):"No Perfect Mothers" by Karen Spears Zacharias (Fiction); "Rednecks" by Taylor Brown (Fiction); "This Book is Free and Yours to Keep" Edited by Connie Banra, Kristin Devault-Juelfs, Destinee Harper, Katy Ryan, and Ellen Skirvin (Nonfiction); "What Good is Heaven" by Raye Hendrix (Poetry)
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
WEATHERFORD
Helen M. Lewis Community Service Award
2024 Winner: Gallia-Vinton Educational Service Center
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
HELEN
Jack Spadaro Documentary Award
2024 Winner(s): "Heritage on a Plate," Tucker Colby Amburgey, Wolfgang Gunnar Miles; "Inheritance," Directed by Matt Moyer and Amy Toensing
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
JACK
Carl A. Ross Student Paper Competition
2024 Winner(s): Michelle Roberts (Undergraduate Student Category); Adeline Rosenberger (Undergraduate Student Category)
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
CARL
e-Appalachia Award
2024 Winner: No Options Hip-Hop in Appalachia
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
E-APPALACHIA
Wilma S. Dykeman "Faces of Appalachia" Post-doctoral Research Fellowship
2025 Winner: Jed DeBruin
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
WILMA
Stephen L. Fisher Award for Excellence in Teaching
2024 Winner(s): Mae Miller-Claxton (Post Secondary); Kevin O’Donnell (Post Secondary); Marissa Dillon (K-12); Travis Stimeling (Special Memorial Award) Jordan Lovejoy
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
STEPHEN
Special Jury Award
2020 Winner: Cara Hagan "Sound and Sole"
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
SPECIAL JURY
ASA SPECIAL
ASA Special Distinguished Service Award
2020 Winner: Nick Arnold
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
FOODWAYS
Appalachian Foodways Practitioner Fellowships
2024 Winner(s): Sam Cole; Chris Smith; Ronnie Marie Tartt; and Mehmet Öztan
Years not listed indicate no award(s) given.
Tammy “Tambone” Clemons Vision Award
2025 Winners: Madison Mooney; and Lacy Snapp
Clemons
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