Award Recipients
We have awarded 796 awards, prizes, and fellowships in the past 129 years.
🏅 2019 Lawrence T. Jones III Research Fellowship in Civil War Texas History
🏅 2019 Texas State Library and Archives Commission Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 2015 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2019 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 2026 Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education Award
Dr. Deborah M. Linsley Liles is the W.K. Gordon Chair and an Associate Professor at Tarleton State University. She is a fellow of the East Texas Historical Association and the West Texas Historical Association, vice president of the Alliance for Texas History, and a board member of the Friends of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Her primary research focuses on the antebellum livestock trade and its relationship to the institution of slavery, as well as women's, architectural, and industrial history in Texas.
🏅 2010 John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 2007 Fred White Jr. Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 2014 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women
🏅 1996 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Elizabeth Hayes Turner is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas. She is the author of Women, Culture, and Community; Religion and Reform in Galveston, 1880-1920 (1997), which won three scholarly awards, and co-author of Galveston and the 1900 Storm: Catastrophe and Catalyst (2000). Professor Turner is the author of several articles and co-editor of Hidden Histories of Women in the New South (1994). Beyond Image and Convention: Explorations in Southern Women's History (1998); Major Problems in the History of the American South (1999); Clio's Southern Sisters: Interviews with Leaders of the Southern Association for Women Historians (2004); and Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas (2007), which won the T. R. Fehrenbach Award in Texas history. In 2003 she was a Fulbright Lecturer to the University of Genoa, Italy. Her teaching specialties are history of the New South, Southern Autobiography, and Women and Gender in the New South.
🏅 2007 John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History
Mark A. Goldberg is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Houston. His first book, Conquering Sickness: Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands (University of Nebraska Press, 2017), examines the role of health and healing in imperial expansion, nation building, and race formation in the 18th- and 19th-century Texas-Mexico border region. Health concerns drove Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo American colonization in Texas, and colonists regularly articulated what behaviors fostered healthy and successful settlement and what behaviors threatened human bodies. In the process, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Anglos defined nonwhites as medical threats to society, empire, and nationhood. Goldberg is currently working on another book project on the history of Jewish Latinxs.
At the University of Houston, Professor Goldberg teaches courses in Latinx history, early America, Jewish Studies, and the history of race and ethnicity. He is an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Mexican American and Latina/o Studies, and the Center for Public History.
🏅 2005 John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 2022 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
Carl Moneyhon is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He was born in Brownwood, Texas, and raised on the family ranch in Mason, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in History (1967) and an M.A. in History (1968). He went on to study at the University of Chicago with John Hope Franklin and earned his Ph.D. (1973).
His books on Texas include The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas (2021), George T. Ruby: Champion of Equal Rights in Reconstruction Texas (2020), Edmund J. Davis: Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor (2010), Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction(2004), Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of the Civil War in Texas (1998), and Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas (1980).
In addition he has published numerous articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia articles on Texas topics.
🏅 2000 John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 1997 John H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas History
Patrick Cox, Ph.D. of Wimberley, Texas is an award-winning and nationally recognized historian, author and conservationist with a record of service, policy development and implementation. A sixth generation Texan who resides with his wife Brenda in Wimberley, Texas, he is President of Patrick Cox Consultants, LLC. His firm specializes in historical and environmental publications and projects. Dr. Cox received his Ph.D. in history and his B.A. in history from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his M.A. in History with Honors from Texas State University. Selected publications include: Ralph W. Yarborough, The People’s Senator; Tom Sealy – A Man of Action; Ranching in the Wild Horse Desert; The House Will Come to Order; and The First Texas News Barons. Service and publication awards include: Texas State Historical Association Fellow; East Texas Historical Association Fellow; Texas Institute of Letters; Distinguished Alumni Award - Texas State University; Distinguished Alumni - Texas State University College of Liberal Arts; Texas Oral History Award, San Antonio Conservation Society Book Award, the American Journalism Historians Association – President’s Award; the Philosophical Society of Texas; and the Melvin Jones Humanitarian Award from the Lions International Foundation.
🏅 2006 Lawrence T. Jones III Research Fellowship in Civil War Texas History
🏅 2012 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
🏅 1993 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Richard B. McCaslin, joined the TSHA Staff as the Director of Publications in September 2023. He is the former TSHA Professor of Texas History at the University of North Texas, and has written or edited twenty-two books. These include Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862, which won a Tullis Award, Lee in the Shadow of Washington, which won a Laney Prize and Slatten Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer, Fighting Stock: John S. “Rip” Ford of Texas, which got a Pate Award and Bates Award, At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997, which won an Award of Merit from the Texas Philosophical Society, and Saratoga on the Cibolo: Sutherland Springs, Texas, which received a Publication Award from the San Antonio Conservation Society. A TSHA Fellow, he also has commendations from the Civil War Round Tables in Dallas, Fort Worth, and Shreveport for his academic work.
On December 17, 2025, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Richard B. McCaslin as the fifth Texas State Historian.
🏅 2002 Fred White Jr. Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 2001 Fred White Jr. Research Fellowship in Texas History
🏅 2026 Larry McNeill Research Fellowship in Texas Legal History
Dr. Jody Edward Ginn is Director of Development for the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame & Museum. He is a former law enforcement investigator/administrator and U.S. Army veteran who has worked for over nearly two decades as a Public Historian, including as a curatorial/multi-media consultant to museums, educational institutions/non-profits, and as an adjunct professor of history at Austin Community College.
As a museum consultant and executive, Dr. Ginn has raised funds for historical projects – from traveling museum exhibits to educational films to full museum development projects – for over 20 years. Notably, Dr. Ginn built a network of development partners, donor contacts, and consultants while creating a comprehensive strategic institutional plan for the Texas Rangers Heritage Center (TRHC) in Fredericksburg. Dr. Ginn also served as an expert consultant/commentator for filmmakers and publicity agents, online podcasts, and for national and international print media outlets. Notably, he worked as a publicity consultant to the 2019 blockbuster Netflix Film, The Highwaymen, starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson.
Dr. Ginn is a Life Member of the TSHA and two-time winner of the Fred White Jr. Research Fellowship. He has served on numerous Awards and planning committees. He also regularly presents his ongoing research and moderates panels at the TSHA Annual Meeting and the East and West Texas Historical Association annual conferences. He also presented his research at the University of Illinois-Chicago in 2011.
Dr. Ginn has authored numerous refereed publications on Texas history topics. His scholarly works include “Texas Rangers in Myth and Memory,” in the anthology Texan Identities: Moving Beyond Myth, Memory, And Fallacy in Texas History. (UNT Press, 2016). Ginn’s second refereed publication was also an anthology chapter, titled “American Indians in the Republic of Texas: A Case Study for Moving Beyond Traditional Perspectives,” in Single Star of the West: The Republic of Texas, 1836-1845. (UNT Press, 2017). In this most recent anthology on the history of the Republic of Texas, Ginn revealed his research into the only American Indian to have been awarded a land grant in Texas.
Dr. Ginn’s first refereed book-length publication was Palmito Ranch: From Civil War Battlefield to National Historic Landmark (TAMU Press, 2018), co-authored with former Texas Historical Commission Military Sites Coordinator, William McWhorter. An account of the earlier battle was first published in the journal of the West Texas Historical Association, in 2014. Ginn's most recent book is East Texas Troubles: The Allred Rangers Cleanup of San Augustine (OU Press, 2019).
🏅 2006 Cecilia Steinfeldt Fellowship for Research in the Arts and Material Culture
🏅 2004 Cecilia Steinfeldt Fellowship for Research in the Arts and Material Culture
🏅 2003 H. Bailey Carroll Award for Best Article in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
🏅 2016 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture
🏅 2019 Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture
Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe is professor of museum studies and chair of the department. He has taught at Baylor since 2000, before which he was director of academic programs at Historic Deerfield, a museum of New England history and art. He is an authority of American material culture and decorative arts, and historic preservation, especially in Texas.
He has published seven books and co-edited two more. His most recent book, Historic Homes of Waco, Texas, won the Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book on Texas History and Culture from the Texas State Historical Association, as did his previous book, The Material Culture of Germans Texans. The latter also won awards from the Victorian Society of America, the Southeastern Society of Architectural Historians, the Philosophical Society of Texas, and the Conservation Society of San Antonio.
He has also published numerous articles, including essays for the Winterthur Portfolio, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. His topics have ranged from Thomas Jefferson’s ideas of beauty and the first generation of American banking houses to the German Texan landscape painter Hermann Lungkwitz and the restoration/reconstruction of the Spanish Governor’s Palace in San Antonio.
He has given lectures at many Texas museums and historic sites, including the Amon Carter Museum, the Alamo, the Winedale Historical Center, and the Bayou Bend Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Twice he has been a speaker at the David B. Warren Symposium on American Material Culture and the Texas Experience, sponsored by Bayou Bend.
He served for 12 years on the board of the Committee on Museum Professional Training of the American Association (now Alliance) of Museums, the last four as chair. He also served on the program committee for two AAM annual meetings, and has served on a similar committee for then TSHA four times. He is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association.
🏅 2005 Cecilia Steinfeldt Fellowship for Research in the Arts and Material Culture
🏅 1991 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research
🏅 1990 Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas History
Cynthia Brandimarte holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and worked as historian for Texas universities, museums, and the state park system. She is the author of Inside Texas: Culture, Identity, and Houses, 1878–1920 (Texas Christian University Press, 1991), which received both the Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research and the Coral B. Tullis Award for the Outstanding Book in Texas History in 1992. In addition, she is the author of another award-winning book, Texas State Parks and the CCC: the Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps (Texas A&M University Press, 2013) and the companion website The Look of Nature: Designing Texas State Parks during the Great Depression (http://www.texascccparks.org/). Her articles on Texas history have appeared in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly and Journal for Big Bend Studies and those on American culture in the Missouri Historical Review and Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, on whose editorial board she recently served. Several of her articles have been selected for edited volumes. She has applied her interdisciplinary training to diverse topics, from the manner that buildings and cultural landscapes serve as stages for gendered and class-inflected social performances to land speculation and mining in the Texas Big Bend. Her work has benefited from grants awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Park Service, American Association for State and Local History, Summerlee Foundation, and the Texas State Historical Association (Cecilia Steinfeldt Fellowship for Research in the Arts and Material Culture). She has also benefited from collaborations with interdisciplinary practitioners at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the National Park Service; independent scholars in and outside of the state; the history faculty at Texas State University, where she helped to establish its graduate public history program; and fellow members of the board of directors of the National Council on Public History. Brandimarte continues to investigate topics related to American and Texas art, the U.S. military, and New Deal history and architecture.
