Award Recipients
We have awarded 796 awards, prizes, and fellowships in the past 129 years.
🏅 2000 Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 2026 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture
Mark Lambert is the Senior Deputy Director for Heritage at the Texas General Land Office.
🏅 2005 Fred White Jr. Research Fellowship in Texas History
A native Texan, Harriet Denise Joseph is a Latin American historian focusing primarily on Mexico. She earned her B.A. from Southern Methodist Univeristy (1967) and both her M.A. and Ph.D. at the Univeristy of North Texas (1971, 1976), where she studied under the mentorship of Donald Chipman. Her area of expertise includes Spanish Texas, Mexican-American history, and the history of Jewish community in twentieth-century Brownsville.
🏅 2006 Stephen F. Austin's Old Three Hundred Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 2016 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
🏅 2015 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
🏅 2019 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
Andrew J. Torget is an associate professor at the University of North Texas, where he specializes in Texas, the Old South, the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and digital scholarship. The founder and director of numerous digital humanities projects -- including the Digital Austin Papers, Mapping Texts, Texas Slavery Project, and Voting America -- Andrew earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and served as the founding director of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond. In 2011, he was named the inaugural David J. Weber Research Fellow at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University. His most recent book is Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850, which won numerous book prizes and awards, including the David J. Weber-Clements Center Prize for Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America from the Western Historical Association.
🏅 2018 Special Award for Research and Writing on Texas in World War I
🏅 2019 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Jeffrey L. Littlejohn serves as Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. A native of Dallas, Texas, he completed his undergraduate degree at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, and his MA and PhD at the University of Arkansas. He is the co-author or co-editor of three books: Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk Public Schools (2012); The Enemy Within Never Did Without: German and Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945 (2015); and The Seedtime, the Work, and the Harvest: New Perspectives on the Black Freedom Struggle in America (2018). Littlejohn has also published more than a dozen articles with his co-author Charles H. Ford, including: In the Best American Tradition of Freedom, We Defy You: The Radical Partnership of Joseph Jordan, Edward Dawley, and Leonard Holt,” Journal of African American History (2021) and
“The Cabiness Family Lynching: Race, War, and Memory in Walker County, Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2018). Littlejohn’s scholarship and digital projects, including Lynching in Texas, have received funding from the National Foundation for the Humanities and Humanities Texas. He can be reached on the web at: http://studythepast.org.
🏅 2019 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
🏅 2004 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
🏅 2017 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
Jerry Thompson is Regents and Piper Professor of History at Texas A&M International University in Laredo and a highly decorated historian. He has been honored by the Arizona Historical Society, the Historical Society of New Mexico, and the Texas State Historical Association. Thompson is a three-time recipient of the Best Scholarly Book Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for Civil War to the Bitter End: The Life and Times of Major General Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas, and Tejano Tiger: Jose de los Santos Benavides and the History of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891, which was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He received the Kate Broocks Bates Award from the Texas State Historical Association for Civil War and Revolution on the Rio Grande Frontier, co-authored with Larry Jones, and has earned the Tejano Book Award three times.
Thompson’s exceptional teaching and academic achievements have earned him the Senator Judith Zaffarini Medal and the Texas A&M University System Teaching Excellence Award. He holds a BA in history from Western New Mexico University, an MA in history from the University of New Mexico, and a doctorate in history from Carnegie Mellon University. A former president of the Texas State Historical Association, Thompson has published a wide range of acclaimed works, including A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia and Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls: Joe Lynch Davis and the Last of the Oklahoma Outlaws, the story of his Cherokee outlaw grandfather. His most recent book, Under the Pinon Tree: Finding a Place in Pie Town, was published in 2023 by the University of New Mexico Press.
Thompson is married to Dr. Sara Amparo Cabello, a professor at Laredo College, and they have one son, Jeremy, a graduate of Rice University.
🏅 1995 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
Dr. Stephen L. Hardin is a specialist in Texas, military, and social history. His numerous publications range from the award-winning Texian Illiad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution to, most recently, Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston, a fascinating study of early Houston society. In addition to his writing and teaching activities, Hardin has also provided specialist commentary on the A&E Network, the History Channel, the Discovery Network, and NBC’s TODAY show. Elected Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, 2009.
🏅 2000 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
🏅 2004 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 2000 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 1995 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 1992 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
🏅 2020 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
🏅 2023 Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell Award
Gregg Cantrell was born in Sweetwater, Texas and raised in Cooper, Roswell (NM), and Abilene. He graduated from Abilene Cooper High School and majored in Management at Texas A&M (1979), where I also earned an MBA (1980). I later returned to A&M for a PhD in History (1988).
He is a Professor of History and the Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History at Texas Christian University (TCU). He previously taught at the University of North Texas for three years, Hardin-Simmons University for two years, and Sam Houston State University for ten years. He is a three-degree Texas Aggie, but these days has divided loyalties between A&M and TCU.
He was trained in the field of Southern History by his mentors Dale T. Knobel, Robert A. Calvert, and Walter L. Buenger. Most of his work has focused on the state of Texas, and his early work dealt with the intersection of race and politics in the South. He wrote a biography of Stephen F. Austin and more recently a book on the Texas People's Party with Yale University Press. He coauthored a college-level textbook, coedited an anthology on history and collective memory in Texas, and has published a number of scholarly articles and essays.
🏅 1994 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
Dr. Andrés Tijerina, a native of Ozona, earned his Bachelor's degree from Texas A & M University, Master's from Texas Tech, and Doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. Following teaching stints at Tech, UT Austin, UT San Antonio, and Texas A & M - Kingsville, Dr. Tijerina joined the faculty of ACC and serves with distinction as Professor of History at the Pinnacle Campus.
Dr. Tijerina is the author of Tejanos and Texas Under the Mexican Flag and Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos. He edited Andrés Saenz's Early Tejano Ranching in Duval County and co-edited Elena Zamora O'Shea's novel entitled El Mesquite. All four works are available through A & M University Press. Organizations such as the Sons of the Republic of Texas, the Texas State Historical Association, and the Texas Historical Commission have officially recognized the significance of such works with the Presidio La Bahía Award, the Kate Broocks Bates Award, and the T. R. Fehrenbach Award.
Dr. Tijerina is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and an active presenter to gatherings of historians throughout the state. His writings have appeared as chapters, articles, and book reviews in journals ranging from the Southwestern Historical Quarterly to the American Historical Review.
🏅 1990 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
🏅 1995 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
Paula Marks, Professor Emerita of American Studies at St. Edward’s University, received her doctorate from the University of Texas with concentrations in U.S. women’s history, history of the American West, and American literature. Her dissertation research on nineteenth-century San Antonio residents Samuel and Mary Adams Maverick, published as the dual biography Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas, was awarded TSHA’s Kate Broocks Bates Award and the Texas Historical Commission’s T. R. Fehrenbach Award. Among her other publications, she co-wrote a Texas history textbook. Dr. Marks has served on the boards of the Western Writers of America and the Texas Institute of Letters. She has worked as a consultant and special exhibit curator with the Bullock Texas State History Museum, and she has served as an associate dean, acting dean, and program director at St. Edward’s. In 2013, she received the national Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs Faculty Award for graduate teaching. She is a TSHA Fellow, active in the organization for three decades. Her current research interests include public history and Texas women’s history.
🏅 1988 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
Robert Wooster is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he has taught since 1986. A Fellow and past president of the Texas State Historical Association, he has received several teaching awards and is author, editor, or co-editor of fourteen books, most recently The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783–1900, which received the Western History Association’s Robert M. Utley Award.
🏅 2015 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
Dr. Andrew Yox received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and was the founding Honors Director here at NTCC in 2007. He was the winner of the $5,000 Mary Jon, and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award in 2016, the 2003 Webb-Smith Essay Award for his essay on German-American Poetry, and the 2012 David C. Deboe Award for his leadership of NTCC’s Walter Webb Society. Yox teaches the first-semester Texas History portion of the Bio-Tex Seminar.
