Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Article Award
Committee
Award Details
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) annually presents the Carlton C. Qualey Memorial Award to recognize the best article published in the Journal of American Ethnic History in the previous year. The $500 award is given at the IEHS banquet during the OAH. The Immigration and Ethnic History Society established this award in memory of Professor Carleton C. Qualey, distinguished historian, newsletter editor, treasurer, and a founder of the Society.
The 2027 award will honor the best article published in the JAEH during the 2026 calendar year. The award committee will automatically consider all articles published in the journal during that time. Questions regarding this award should be directed to the editor of the Journal of American Ethnic History, Suzanne Sinke at qualeyaward@iehs.org.
Awardees who do not have sufficient funds to attend the IEHS banquet to receive their award will have an opportunity to request limited financial assistance from the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.
Previous Recipients
2025-2026
Lila Teeters Knolle, “Indians Now Taxed: Citizenship and Taxation in Settler-Colonial South Dakota.”
2024-2025
Jorge Ramirez-Lopez, “‘Our Dark Hands and Sore Backs’: The Comité Cívico Popular Mixteco and the New Grassroots Activism by Indigenous Mexican Migrants.”
Honorable Mention
Nicole Greer Golda, “Producing the Ford Man: The International Student, the Henry Ford Trade School, and the Gendered Dimensions of American Business in the 1920s.”
2023-2024
Eiichiro Azuma, “Toward a Transnational History of Wartime Japanese Americans: Nisei and Imperial Japan’s Race Propaganda.”
Honorable Mention
“Dalen C.B. Wakeley-Smith, “‘The one primitive people who contact with civilization has failed to exterminate’: New York and ‘Gypsy’ Madness in the 1920s.”
2022-2023
Adrian De Leon, “Frank Mancao’s ‘Pinoy Image’: Photography, Masculinity, and Respectability in Depression-Era California.”
Honorable Mention
Hao Zou “A Community Divided: The Ho Lawsuit and Chinese San Franciscans’ Search for Education Equality and Racial Inclusion.”
2020-2021
Julian Lim, “Mormons and Mohammedans: Race, Religion, and the Anti-Polygamy Bar in U.S. Immigration Law.”
Laura Madokoro, “’From Citizens to Refugees’: Japanese Canadians and the Search for Wartime Sanctuary.”
Honorable Mention
Sam Vong, “‘Assets of War’: Strategic Displacements, Population Movements, and the Uses of Refugees during the Vietnam War, 1965-1973.”
2019-2020
Yuri Doolan, “Transpacific Camptowns: Korean Women, U.S. Army Bases, and Military Prostitution in America.”
Honorable Mention
Uzma Quraishi, “Racial Calculations: Indian and Pakistani Immigrants in Houston, 1960–1980.”
2018-2019
Jane Hong, “Manila Prepares for Independence: Filopina/o Campaigns for US Citizenship and the Reorienting of American Ethnic Histories,” published in Volume 38, no. 1 (Fall 2018).
Honorable Mention
Cecilia M. Tsu, “‘If You Want to Plow Your Field, Don’t Kill Your Buffalo to Eat’: Hmong Farm Cooperatives and Refugee Resettlement in 1980s Minnesota,” published in volume 36, no 3 (Spring 2017).
2016 – 2017
Krystyn Moon, “The Alexandria YWCA: Race, and Urban (and Ethnic) Revival: The Scottish Christmas Walk, 1960s- 1970s.
2014 – 2015
Hidetaka Hirota, The Great Entrepot for mendicants; Foreign Poverty and Immigration Control in New York to 1882. JAEH Vol. 33, No.2 (Winter 2014).
2012 – 2013
Nancy Green, École Hautes des Études en Sciences Sociales, Americans Abroad and the Uses of Citzenship: Paris, 1914-1940, JAEH 31:3 (Spring 2012).
2009 – 2010
Julio Capó, Jr., “Queering Mariel: Mediating Cold War Foreign Policy and U.S. Citizenship among Cuba’s Homosexual Exile Community, 1978-1994″ JAEH 29:4 (Summer 2010).
2007 – 2008
Sam Erman, for Meanings of Citizenship in the U.S. Empire: Puerto Rico, Isabel Gonzalez, and the Supreme Court, 1898-1905″ JAEH, 27:4 (Summer 2008).
2005 – 2006
David Roediger and James Barnett for “The Irish and the ‘Americanization’ of New Immigrants in the streets and in the Churches of the Urban United States, 1900-1930″ JAEH (Summer 2005).
2003 – 2004
Russell A. Kazal for “The Interwar Origins of the White Ethnic: Race, Residence and German Philadelphia, 1917-1939, JAEH 23:4 (Summer 2004),
2001 – 2002
Edward J.M. Rhoads for “’White Labor’ vs. ‘Coolie Labor’: The ‘Chinese Question’ in Pennsylvania in the 1870s, JAEH, 21:2 (Winter 2002).
1999 – 2001
David Gerber, Epistolary Ethics: Personal Correspondence and the Culture of Emigration in the Nineteenth Century, JAEH 19:4 (Summer 2000)
1997 – 1998
James R. Barrett and David R. Roediger, “Inbetween Peoples: Race, Nationality, and the ‘New Immigrant’ Working Class” (Spring 1997)
1995 – 1996
Cheryl Greenberg, “Black and Jewish Response to Japanese Internment” (Winter 1995).
1993 – 1994
Bettye Collier-Thomas and James Turner, “Race, Class and Color: The African American Discourse on Identity” (Fall 1994)
1991 – 1992
K Scott Wong, “Liang Qichao and the Chinese of America : A Re-evaluation of his Selected Memoir of Travels in the New World” (Summer 1992).
1989 – 1990
Victor A. Walsh, “‘Drowning the Shamrock’: Drink, Teetotalism, and the Irish Catholics of Gilded-Age Pittsburgh” (Fall 1990 – Winter 1991).
1987 – 1988
Barry Chiswick, “The Labor Market Status of Hispanic Men” (Fall, 1987).