Award Recipients
We have awarded 796 awards, prizes, and fellowships in the past 129 years.
🏅 2015 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Catharine R. Franklin, assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University, specializes in the nineteenth-century American West, with an emphasis on the United States Army and indigenous peoples.
Her book manuscript, “The Army Stands Between”: Soldiers and Indians in the West, upends the story of the so-called “Indian Wars.” Federal authority, indigenous resistance, and borderlands and transnational themes inform her work.
A native New Yorker, Dr. Franklin earned a B.A. in English Literature and American Studies from The City College of New York, and the M.A. and Ph.D in History at the University of Oklahoma. She has received fellowships from the United States Army Center of Military History, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Huntington Library, and the Library of Congress.
🏅 2012 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Shennette Garrett-Scott is committed to recovering and telling little-known stories about African American women’s enterprise. A historian of gender, race, and capitalism, Garrett-Scott’s work rethinks Black women’s relationships to the U.S. political economy, particularly their quest for economic and social justice. She is an associate professor of history at Texas A&M University, College Station. Her first book Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal (Columbia University Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the Hagley Museum & Library and Business History Conference Hagley Prize for best book in business history, and it won the Southern Historical Association (SHA) award for best book in southern economic history as well as best book in African American women’s history prizes from both the Association of Black Women Historians (ABWH) and the Organization of American Historians. Her scholarly writings have appeared in U.S. and international journals, including the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Business History Review, Enterprise and Society, and Quaderni storici. Her work has also appeared in popular venues, such as Time, Financial History, and Southern Cultures magazines. She is featured in the PBS documentary Boss: The Black Experience in Business. Her second book, Black Enterprise: Black Capitalism in the Making of America, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. Follow her on Twitter at @EbonRebel.
🏅 1983 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 2000 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Walter Buenger, Ph.D., served as TSHA’s Chief Historian from September 2017 until January 2024, as well as the inaugural Summerlee Foundation Lone Star Chair in Texas History at The University of Texas at Austin. Buenger was elected a TSHA Fellow in 2000, and he served as TSHA President in 2009-2010. The author of numerous books and articles, Buenger was awarded the Coral H. Tullis Award in 2001 for his book, The Path to a Modern South: Texas between Reconstruction and the Great Depression. A native of West Texas, Buenger received his Ph.D. from Rice University in 1979. Soon afterward, he began teaching at Texas A&M University where he remained until 2017. While there, he gave courses in U.S. history, the history of the South, and Texas history, and served as chair of the history department. His own area of research focuses on comparative border studies, the South, and Texas since 1820. He is currently working on a project researching the relationship between history and memory in Texas after 1820.
🏅 2005 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Born in south Louisiana in 1943, Mary Jo O’Rear spent the next 23 years of her life in north Louisiana. Meeting and marrying James Lee O’Rear, she became a certified secondary teacher, received her Bachelor of Arts degree, and moved to south Texas in the mid-1960s where she and Jim raised their daughter Jessica Lee. From 1967 to 1999, she taught world history, United States history, economics, and geography in Corpus Christi middle and senior high schools, receiving a Master of Arts degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi in 1977. During that time, she served on the Texas State Advisory committee on Teacher Evaluation, on two separate Texas State Textbook Committees, and after retirement, on the state Board of Education Social Studies TEKS Review Committee. In the fall of 1999, she entered Texas A&M University—Kingsville and two years later received a Master of Arts degree in History and Political Science.
From 1999 through 2001 she was adjunct professor of U.S. History at Texas A&M University—Kingsville and, from 1999 until 2005, she held the same position at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi.
Mary Jo was Women’s History Breakfast Chair for the East Texas Historical Association, became a Fellow of that Association in October 2016, was a Board member from 2014 to 2016 and from 2017 to 2023, and served as president of ETHA from 2019-2021. The East Texas Historical Association awarded her the Ralph Steen Award in recognition of distinguished service in October 2022.
She has served several times on the Texas State Historical Association H. Bailey Carroll Award Committee, twice on the TSHA Hospitality Committee, and once on the Program Committee.
Her article, “Silver-Lined Storm: the Impact of the 1919 Hurricane on the Port of Corpus Christi,” won the Keith Guthrie Memorial Award from the Nueces County Historical Association in 2005 and the H. Bailey Carroll Award from the Texas State Historical Association in 2006. Another work, “Reckoning at the River: Unionists and Secessionists on the Nueces, 1862,” was part of The Seventh Star of the Confederacy, an anthology that won the A.M. Pate, Jr. Award for excellence in Civil War writing in December 2009.
Her book, Storm Over the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and their Port, published by Texas A&M University Press, came out in March 2009 and was a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Best Scholarly Book Award in May 2010. Two other works to which she contributed, Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas 1865-1874 and African Americans in Corpus Christi, were released in the spring of 2012. Her next book, Bulwark against the Bay: The People of Corpus Christi and their Seawall, came out in the spring of 2017, and her most recent work, Barrier to the Bays: the Islands of the Texas Coastal Bend and their Pass, was released in early 2022, also a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letter Most Scholarly Book of 2023.
🏅 2024 Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell Award
🏅 2024 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 2025 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Jesús F. "Frank" de la Teja has a lengthy, active relationship with TSHA and its programs. He served as TSHA President in 2007-2008 while simultaneously serving as the inaugural Texas State Historian (2007-2009). For seventeen years, De la Teja was the book review editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and also contributed research articles to the journal. He has long advised on Handbook of Texas projects, most recently with the Handbook of Tejano History. He and his wife established TSHA’s Catarino and Evangelina Hernández Research Fellowship to support research in Latino history in Texas. Named a TSHA Fellow in 2001, De la Teja has published extensively on Spanish, Mexican, and Republic-era Texas. He was the Jerome H. and Catherine E. Supple Professor of Southwestern Studies, Regents’ Professor of History, and Director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University-San Marcos until his retirement in August 2017. He served as TSHA Executive Director from January 2018 through January 2020. De la Teja earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Seton Hall University and his doctorate in colonial Latin American history from The University of Texas at Austin.
🏅 2004 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Andrés Reséndez is a historian and author specializing in colonial Latin America, borderlands, and the Iberian world. Reséndez’s work has long been concerned with the dynamics of borderlands in North America, whether in terms of the emergence of ethnic or national identities or the prevalence of labor coercion and enslavement of indigenous peoples. He has also been interested in the earliest exploration of the Americas and the Pacific Ocean, and the role of technology in these early voyages of exploration.
🏅 2016 Al Lowman Memorial Prize
🏅 2020 Al Lowman Memorial Prize
Glen Sample Ely is the award-winning author of The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2016) and Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity (Texas Tech University Press, 2011) which received sixteen honors and awards combined. His third book, Murder in Montague: Frontier Justice and Retribution in Texas (University of Oklahoma Press, 2020) won the Lowman Memorial Book Prize from the Texas State Historical Association. Ely is co-author of Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas-New Mexico Borderlands (University of Oklahoma Press, 2021), which won first place book awards from Westerners International and the Will Rogers Medallion Awards. Ely earned his Ph.D. from TCU. His work has won the Award of Excellence in Preserving History from the Texas Historical Commission as well as Gold and Silver Wilder Awards from the Texas Association of Museums. In 2018 Ely was inducted as a Fellow in the Texas State Historical Association.
🏅 2018 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture
Peter Gershon is coordinator of the Core Residency Program at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and former editor and publisher of Signal to Noise from 1997 to 2013.
🏅 2008 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Emilio Zamora is a professor in the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in Mexican American history, Texas history, oral history, and transnational (U.S./Mexico) working class history. His latest publications are Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas, Mexican Job Politics during World War II and Beyond the Latino World War II Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of a Generation (co-edited with Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez). Zamora has served as the Vice Chair of the advisory board of the Mexican American Cultural Center (MACC, Austin), and a member of the advisory board of the Hispanic Texas History Project, a statewide archival collection program with the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project based at the University of Houston. Zamora also serves as a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and as a Fellow of the Barbara White Stuart Centennial Professorship in Texas history at The University of Texas.
