Award-Winning USU Books since 2000
- SUSAN H. DELAGRANGE
Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World
2013 CCCC Outstanding Book Award - PATRICK W. BERRY, GAIL E. HAWISHER, and CYNTHIA L. SELFE
Transnational Literate Lives in Digital Times
2013 CCCC Research Impact Award
2013 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award - PADDY BOWMAN and LYNN HAMER
Through the Schoolhouse Door
Dorothy Howard Folklore and Education Prize 2012 - LAURA GREENFIELD and KAREN ROWAN Eds.
Writing Centers and the New Racism
2012 International Writing Centers Association Best Book award - JOHN S. MCCORMICK and JOHN R. SILLITO
A History of Utah Radicalism: Startling, Socialistic, and Decidely Revolutionary
2012 Best Utah History Book Award - SUSAN H. DeLAGRANGE
Technologies of Wonder: Rhetorical Practice in a Digital World
2012 Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award - CHRISTOPHER SCHROEDER
Diverse by Design
2012 CCCC Research Impact Award - BURT FEINTUCH and GARY SAMSON
In the Blood: Cape Breton Conversations on Culture
2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Silver Medal - IRVIN PECKHAM
Going North Thinking West
2011 Reflections Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship, Honorable Mention - RONALD G. WATT
The Mormon Passage of George D. Watt
2009 Evans Handcart Award - STEVEN K. MADSEN
Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the
Canyonlands of the Colorado
Southwest Books of the Year, Best Reading of 2010 - LINDA ADLER-KASSNER
The Activist WPA: Changing Stories about Writing and Writers
2010 Council of Writing Program Administrators Best Book Award - MELISSA L. MILEWSKI
Before the Manifesto: The Life Writings of Mary Lois Walker Morris Young
2010 Western Association of Women Historians Kanner Award - ROBERT S. McPHERSON
Comb Ridge and Its People: The Ethnohistory of a Rock
2009, Utah Book Award, Nonfiction - JAMES M. ATON
The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green
2009 Finalist, Utah Book Award, Nonfiction - TONY SCOTT
Dangerous Writing: Understanding the Political Economy of Composition
2009 Reflections Outstanding Book Award for Civic Scholarship, Honorable Mention - LuMING MAO and MORRIS YOUNG
Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric
2009 MLA Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize, Honorable Mention - WILLIAM B. SMART
Mormonism’s Last Colonizer: the Life and Times of William H. Smart
2009 Evans Handcart Award
2009 Mormon History Association Best Biography Award - IDRIS ANDERSON
Mrs. Ramsay’s Knee
2009 XXXIV Pushcart Prize - SIMON J. BRONNER
The Meaning of Folklore: the Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes
2009 Runner-up Wayland Hand Award for Folklore and History - CHRISTINE ALLEN-YAZZIE
The Arc and the Sediment – A Novel
2008 Winner, Utah Book Award, Fiction
2007 Winner, Independent Publishers Silver Medal
2007 Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition Publication Prize - CRAIG DENTON
Bear River: Last Chance to Change Course
2008 Finalist, Utah Book Award, Nonfiction - DIANE E. GOLDSTEIN, JEANNIE BANKS THOMAS, and SYLVIA GRIDER
Haunting Experiences: Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
2008 Brian McConnell Book Award, the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research - MATTHEW C. GODFREY
Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907 to 1921
2008 Best First Book Award, the Mormon History Association - SANDRA AILEY PETREE
Recollections pf Past Days: The Autobiography of Patience Loader Rozsa Archer
2007 Best Documentary Book in Utah History, Smith-Pettit Foundation
2007 Evans Biography Award - WOLFGANG MIEDER
Proverbs Are the Best Policy: Folk wisdom and American Politics
2006 The Wayland D. Hand Prize, for an outstanding publication in folklore and history, from The Folklore Historian, in association with the American Folklore Society - MELVIN C. JOHNSON
Polygamy on the Pedernales: Lyman Wight’s Mormon Villages in Antebellum Texas, 1845-1858
2006 Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association - RONALD BARNEY
The Mormon Vanguard Brigade of 1847: Norton Jacob’s Record
2006 Best Utah Documentary History Book, Utah State Historical Society - NANCY J. TANIGUCHI
Castle Valley America: Hard Land, Hard-Won Home
2006 Award of Merit, American Association of State and Local History
2004 Best Utah History Book, Utah State Historical Society - HELEN PAPANIKOLAS
Rain in the Valley, A Novel
2005 Utah Book Award in Fiction, The Utah Center for the Book - ROY WEBB, Ed.
High, Wide, and Handsome: The River Journals of Norman D. Nevills
2005 Best Books-Southwest Books of the Year, Tucson-Pima Public Library
in partnership with the Friends of the Tucson-Pima Library and the Arizona Historical Society - ROBERT S. WICKS and FRED R. FOISTER
Junius and Joseph: Presidential Politics and the Assassination of the
First Mormon Prophet
2005 Best First Book Award, Mormon History Association
2005 Smith Pettit Best Book Award, John Whitmer Historical Association - BARRE TOELKEN
The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West
2004 Chicago Folklore Prize - PATRICIA SAWIN
Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth through
Her Songs and Stories
2004 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, American Folklore Society - CHARLES M. HATCH and TODD COMPTON, Eds.
A Widow’s Tale: The 1884–1896 Diary of Helen Mar Kimball Whitney
2004 Best Documentary Award, Mormon History Association
2004 WILLA Literary Award Finalist, Women Writing the West - MICHAEL A. PEMBERTON and JOYCE KINKEAD, Eds.
The Center Will Hold: Critical Perspectives on Writing Center Scholarship
2004 WPA Best Book Award, the Council of Writing Program Administrators
2004 International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Book on Writing Center Research - CHARLES W. BALEY
Disaster at the Colorado: Beale’s Wagon Road and the First Emigrant Party
2003 Second Prize for Best Non-Fiction, Westerners International - E. RICHARD HART
Pedro Pino: Governor of Zuni Pueblo, 1830–1878
2003 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award, Historical Society of New Mexico - GEOFFREY SIRC
English Composition as a Happening
2003 W. Ross Winterowd Award, Most Outstanding Book in Composition Theory - ELIZABETH H. BOQUET
Noise from the Writing Center
2002 Outstanding Research and Publication Award, NE Writing Centers Association - MARGARET K. BRADY
Mormon Healer and Folk Poet: Mary Susannah Fowler’s Life of “Unselfish Usefulness”
2002 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize, American Folklore Society - RONALD O. BARNEY
One Side by Himself: The Life And Times of Lewis Barney1808-1894
2002 Best Biography Award, Mormon History Association
2002 Evans Biography Award - EILEAN ADAMS
Hell or High Water: James White’s Disputed Passage through Grand Canyon, 1867
2001 Evans Handcart Award - JAMES M. ATON and ROBERT S. MCPHERSON
River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan
2000 Norris and Carol Hundley Award, American Historical Assoc–Pacific Coast Branch - DAVID L. BIGLER and WILL BAGLEY
Army of Israel: Mormon Battalion Narratives
2001 Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary, Mormon History Association
2000 Utah Military History Award, Utah State Historical Society - CINDY JOHANEK
Composing Research: A Contextualist Paradigm for Rhetoric and Composition
2000 Outstanding Scholarship Award, National Writing Centers Association - ROBERT S. MCPHERSON
The Journey of Navajo Oshley: An Autobiography and Life History
2000 Evans Handcart Award - WILLIAM B. SMART and DONNA T. SMART
Over the Rim: The Parley P. Pratt Exploring Expedition to Southern Utah
2000 Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary, Mormon History Association - GAIL E. HAWISHER and CYNTHIA L. SELFE
Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies
2000 Computers & Composition Award - HANK HASSELL
Rainbow Bridge: An Illustrated History
2000 The A-list Exceptional Books of 1999, Bookman Book Review Syndicate - JIM DAVIDSON
Mine Work: A Novel
2000 Spur Award, Best Original Paperback Novel, Western Writers of America
2000 Medicine Pipe Bearer Award (Best First Novel), Western Writers of America - SCOTT R. CHRISTENSEN
Sagwitch: Shoshone Chieftan, Mormon Elder, 1822-1887
2000 Best First Book Award, Mormon History Association
1999 Evans Handcart Award - S. GEORGE ELLSWORTH
The History of Louisa Barnes Pratt: The Autobiography of a Mormon Missionary Widow and Pioneer
1999 Steven F. Christensen Award for Best Documentary, Mormon History Association
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