Phyllis Dain Library History Dissertation Award Winners

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Previous Winners

2021 Dr. Cindy Anh Nguyen

"Reading and Misreading: The Social Life of Libraries and Colonial Control in Vietnam, 1865-1958"

2019 Travis Ross

"History,Inc - Herbery Bancroft's History Co and the problem of Selling Past"

Margaret Yu-Yin Hung

"English Public Libraries, 1919-1975: Vocation and Popularisation"

Miriam Intrator

"Books Across Borders and Between Libraries: UNESCO and the Politics of Postwar Cultural

Reconstruction, 1945-1951"



Sharon McQueen

"The Story of ‘The Story of Ferdinand’: The Creation of a Cultural Icon"



Susan Reynolds

"The Establishment of the Library of the Supreme Court of Victoria, 1851-1884: Antecedents,

Foundation, and Legacy"



Karen J Cook

"Freedom Libraries in the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project: A History"



2007 Not Awarded



Bonnie Mak

"(re)Defining the Page for a Digital World"



2003 Not Awarded



Mildred L. Jackson

"Do What You Can: Creating an Institution, Ladies’ Library Associations in Michigan, 1850-1900"



Toby P. Graham

"Segregation and Civil Rights in Alabama’s Public Libraries, 1918-1965"



Christine Pawley

"Reading on the Middle Border: The Culture of Print in Osage, Iowa, 1870 to 1900"



Certificate of Merit

Christine Jenkins

"The Strength of the Inconspicuous: Youth Services Librarians, the American Library

Association, and Intellectual Freedom for the Young, 1939-1955"



1995 Marilyn Martin

"From Altruism to Activism: The Contribution of Women's Organizations to Arkansas

Public Libraries"



1993 Not Awarded



1991 Plummer Alston Jones Jr.

"American Public Library Service to the Immigrant Community, 1876-1948"