Award Recipients
We have awarded 796 awards, prizes, and fellowships in the past 129 years.
🏅 2009 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2002 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
Judith N. McArthur teaches history at the University of Houston-Victoria. She is the coauthor of Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics and A Gentleman and an Officer: The Military and Social History of James B. Griffin's Civil War.
🏅 2018 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2015 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2000 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
Angela Boswell (Ph.D., Rice University) currently serves as the dean of arts and sciences and professor of history at Henderson State University in Arkansas. She teaches courses in early American history and American women's history. Her areas of research are southern women's history and Texas women's history. She is the author of Women in Texas History (University of Georgia Press, 2018), winner of the Liz Carpenter Award, the Temple-Vick Award, the Lone Star Book Award, and the Robert A. Calvert Book Prize. She is also author of Her Act and Deed: Women's Public Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837–1873 (Texas A&M University Press, 2001), also a winner of the Liz Carpenter Award, and co-editor of the three collections: with Deborah M. Liles, Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi (University of North Texas Press, 20126), winner of the Liz Carpenter Award and Ottis Lock; with Judith McArthur, Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change (University of Missouri Press, 2006); and with Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Searching for Their Places: Women in the South across Four Centuries (University of Missouri Press, 2003).
🏅 2014 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
Stephanie Cole is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Arlington, where she teaches courses in women’s history, the history of work and leisure, and how to teach college history. She also serves as the graduate advisor for the UTA’s History MA program. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and has research interests in southern and Texas women’s history, the history of women and work, and American regionalism. Her recent publications include Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives, which she co-edited with Elizabeth Hayes Turner and Rebecca Sharpless, and which won the Liz Carpenter Prize in 2016, and “Servants and Slaves in Louisville: Race, Ethnicity, and Household Labor in an Antebellum Border City” which won Ohio Valley History’s best article prize in 2014. Professional elected and appointed positions include those for the Southern Historical Association, the Southern Association for Women Historians, the Organization of American Historians, the National Women’s History Museum, and the Advisory Board for Archives of Women of the Southwest at SMU’s DeGolyer Library.
🏅 2006 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
Juliana Barr is an historian specializing in the dynamics of Native-European relations in North America especially as they relate to questions of diplomacy, political economy, and Native sovereignty. She is the author of Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands (2007), and co-editor of Contested Spaces of Early America (2014) and of Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without American Indians (2015). She is now writing about the longue durée of Native history and how it reframes our understanding of the era of European arrival in the Americas.
🏅 2013 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
Sonia Hernández is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. She is a former UT Board of Regents Scholar, former Fulbright scholar, and currently a Chancellor EDGES Fellow. Hernández earned a PhD in Latin American History from the University of Houston in 2006 and specializes in the intersections of gender and labor in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Chicana/o history, and Modern Mexico. She is the author of Working Women into the Borderlands (Texas A&M University Press, 2014) which won the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize (NWSA) and the Liz Carpenter Award (TSHA), among others. A Spanish translation of this book was published as Mujeres, trabajo y región fronteriza (Tamaulipas: ITCA; Mexico City: INEHRM, 2017). She is the author of For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938 (University of Illinois Press, 20121) which earned the Philip Taft Labor Book Award (Cornell & LAWCHA) and is co-editor with John Morán González of Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border (University of Texas Press, 2021). She is co-founder of the award-winning public history project Refusing to Forget which brings public awareness of the role of state-sanctioned, anti-Mexican violence in the early 20th century. Hernández is at work on a new book project, “Por un compatriota: Transnational Networks, State Violence, and the Case of Gregorio Cortez, 1900-1920,” which re-visits the 1901 near-lynching attempt of Cortez in south central Texas from a gendered, transnational, and multi-national archival perspective.
🏅 2012 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2007 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
MERLINE PITRE is a professor of History and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Behavioral Sciences at Texas Southern University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Temple University and has published a number of articles in scholarly and professional journals. Her most noted works are Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares: The Black Leadership of Texas, 1868 to 1898 (a book which was reissued in 1997 and used in a traveling exhibit on black legislators by the State Preservation Board in 1998), and In Struggle Against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900 to 1957 (Texas A&M University Press, 1999). Pitre has been the recipient of grants from the Fulbright Foundation, Texas Council for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is also a former member of the Texas Council for the Humanities. Currently, she is a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Texas Council for the Humanities and serves on the nominating board of the Organization of American Historians.
🏅 1999 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2022 Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell Award
Nancy Baker Jones is president of the Ruthe Winegarten Foundation for Texas Women’s History, Austin, which sponsors the Ellen Temple Research Fellowship and the Women in Texas History book series (Texas A&M University Press), for which Jones is a general editor. Its multi-year radio series won the 2012 Outstanding Public History Award from the National Council on Public History. Jones earned the Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. She and Winegarten wrote Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators 1923-1999, which won the 2000 Liz Carpenter Award, and with Fane Downs she edited Women & Texas History: Selected Essays. She was research director for The New Handbook of Texas and taught women's history at St. Edward's University. She serves on the Community Advisory Board for the University of Texas at Austin’s Center for the Study of Women and Gender. Her publications include "Ruthe Winegarten" in Writing the Story of Texas; “The Way We Were: Gender and the Woman’s Pavilion, HemisFair ’68,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly (2016); and “Making Texas Our Texas: The Emergence of Texas Women’s History, 1976-1990,” SHQ (2017). She is a Fellow of the TSHA and served as book review editor for the SHQ. She contributed to the creation of an historical documentary about the woman suffrage movement in Texas released in 2020.
🏅 1992 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
A native of Dallas, Texas, Dr. Debbie Cottrell became the 16th president of Texas Lutheran University on July 1, 2019. Prior to assuming the presidency of TLU, she served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at TLU for seven years. Prior to joining the TLU community, Dr. Cottrell served as Provost of William Peace University in North Carolina, where she led academic affairs, enrollment, and student life. She has also served as Associate Dean of the Faculty and Director of Graduate Programs at Smith College in Massachusetts. Dr. Cottrell began her career in higher education at Cottey College in Missouri, where she taught history and government and served as Assistant Dean of the Faculty.
A first-generation college student, Dr. Cottrell holds a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and a master’s and Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to attending graduate school, Dr. Cottrell taught middle school in Waco and worked as an editor at the Texas Historical Commission in Austin.
Her scholarly interests are in the area of U.S. women’s history and the history of education, along with a distinct appreciation for regional history, particularly the region of Texas. She is the author of a biography of Annie Webb Blanton, an educator who became the first woman in Texas elected to statewide office. This book received the Liz Carpenter Award for Best Scholarly Book of the Year on the History of Women and Texas from the Texas State Historical Association in 1994. (biography from Texas Lutheran University website)
