Peter C. Rollins Book Prize
Each year NEPCA awards the Peter C. Rollins Prize, a cash prize for the best book on American or popular culture penned by a scholar who lives and/or works in New England or New York. The prize is given at the proceeding fall conference.
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Note: NEPCA awards this prize in the calendar year after its publication
1997
Stephen Soitos
The Blues Detective: A Study of African American Detective Fiction (University of Massachusetts Press)
1988
David Wagner
The New Temperance: The American Obsession with Sin and Vice (Westview Press)
1999
Daniel Horowitz
Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (University of Massachusetts Press)
2000
Robert G. Lee
Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Viking)
2001
Catherine Allgor
Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (University Press of Virginia)
2002
Joseph A. Conforti
Imagining New England: Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press)
2003
Stephen Prothero
American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
2004
Steve Fraser
Every Man a Spectator: A History of Wall Street in American Life (HarperCollins)
2005
Jane Lancaster
Making Time: Lillian Moller Gilbreth––A Life Beyond “Cheaper by the Dozen” (Northeastern)
2006
Naoko Shibusawa
America’s Geisha: Reimagining the Japanese Enemy (Harvard)
2007
Elizabeth DeWolfe
The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories (Kent State)
2008
William Chapman Sharpe
New York Nocturne: The City After Dark in Literature, Painting, and Photography (Princeton)
2009
Kathleen Collins
Watching What We Eat: The Evolution of Television Cooking Shows (Continuum)
2010
Robert Love
The Great Oom: The Improbable Birth of Yoga in America (Viking)
2011
Daniel Cavicchi
Listening and Longing: Music Lovers in the Age of Barnum (Wesleyan)
2012
Cynthia Falk
Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State (Cornell)
2013
Ann Axtmann
Indians and Wannabes: Native American Powwow Dancing in the Northeast and Beyond (University of Florida)
2014
Thomas Stubblefield
9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster (Indiana University Press)
2015
Hilary Neroni
The Subject of Torture: Psychoanalysis and Biopolitics in Television and Film (Columbia University Press)
2016
Doug Dibbern
Hollywood Riots: Violent Crowds and Progressive Politics in American Film (I. B. Tauris)
2017
Albert Sergio Laguna
Diversión: Play and Popular Culture in Cuban America (NYU Press)
2018
Amy Werbel
Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock. (Columbia University Press)
2019
Elizabeth Otto
Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics (MIT Press)
2021
Daniel Y Kim
Intimacies of Conflict: Cultural Memory and the Korean War. (NYU Press)
2021
Joy Sanchez-Taylor.
Diverse Futures: Science Fiction and Authors of Color (Ohio State University Press)
2022
Claudia Calhoun
Only the Names Have Been Changed: Dragnet, the Police Procedural, and Postwar Culture (University of Texas Press)
2023
Aimee Loiselle
Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class (University of North Carolina Press)