Outstanding Dissertation Award
The Immigration and Ethnic History Society makes an annual award for an outstanding dissertation in the field of immigration and ethnic history. The IEHS will confer the award at its annual meeting in the spring of 2023. The award carries a cash gift of $1,500.
Eligibility
To be considered, a dissertation must focus on some aspect of North American immigration and/or ethnicity, be successfully defended between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022, and be written in English.
Please submit a copy of the dissertation by the deadline: December 1, 2022.
In addition, applicants will arrange for their major advisor to submit a supporting letter.
Copies of the dissertation and supporting letter will be shared with each committee member.
Inquiries, dissertations, and letters should be submitted to: outstandingdissertation@iehs.org, which will reach all committee members.
Committee Members
Yuridia Ramirez (Chair), Anna Law, Ivòn Padilla-Rodriguez
Previous Recipients
Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez – 2022
(Columbia University): “Undocumented Youth: The Labor, Education, and Rights of Migrant Latinx Children in Twentieth-Century America.”
Dr. Brianna Nofil – 2021
(Columbia University): “Detention Power: Jails, Camps, and the Origins of Immigrant Incarceration, 1900-2002.”
Honorable Mention
Dr. Kathleen Reed, (Manchester University): “Graffiti at Ellis Island: Personal Testimony, Mark-Making and Experiences of Immigration Detention, 1900-1924.”
Matthew Guariglia – 2020
University of Connecticut, “The American Problem: Race, Empire, and Policing in New York City, 1840–1930.”
Brendan A. Shanahan – 2019
“Making Modern American Citizenship: Citizens, Aliens, and Rights, 1865-1965”
Honorable Mention
Evan Taparata,”No Asylum for Mankind: The Creation of Refugee Law and Policy in the United States, 1776-1951.″
Bernadette Jeanne Perez – 2018
Before the Sun Rises: Contesting Power and Cultivating Nations in the Colorado Beet Fields (University of Minnesota, 2017)
Sarah R. Coleman – 2017
Redefining American: The Shifting Politics of Immigration at the End of the Twentieth Century (Princeton University, 2016)
Megan Asaka – 2016
“The Unsettled City: Migration, Race, and the Making of Seattle’s Urban Landscape” (Yale University, 2014)
Jared Toney – 2015
“Locating Diaspora: Afro-caribbean Migration and the Transnational Dialectics of Race and Community in North America, 1910-1929” (University of Toronto, 2014)
Elizabeth Craft (honorable mention) “Becoming American Onstage: Broadway Narratives of Immigrant Experiences in the United States” (Harvard University, 2014)
Julian Lim – 2014
“The Future Immense:’ Race and Immigration in the Multiracial U.S. – Mexico Borderlands” (Cornell University, 2013)