Awards
Each year the Arizona History Convention presents the following awards. If you are interested in underwriting an award, please contact us at info@arizonahistory.org.
Barry M. Goldwater Award
Sponsored by Heidi Osselaer
A panel of judges will award a $500 prize for the best convention paper on Arizona history. All accepted papers (except those by college students) are eligible.
Valeen T. Avery Collegiate Award
Sponsored by Reba Wells Grandrud
A $250 prize goes to the best paper on an Arizona topic by a college or junior college student (graduate or undergraduate) and the conference registration fee will be waived. Please indicate the advising professor and institution on the proposal and completed paper.
Don Bufkin Prize
Sponsored by Reba Wells Grandrud
A $250 prize goes to the best paper dealing with the territorial period of Arizona history. Papers dealing with geography, broadly defined, or cartography are particularly encouraged. Students and non-students are eligible.
Bruce J. Dinges Award
Sponsored by the Tucson Corral of Westerners
A $250 prize goes to the outstanding podium presentation, as judged by members of the Tucson Corral of Westerners. The Corral hopes that the recipient’s work will appear in a future issue of its publication “Smoke Signal.”
To be considered for a conference award, all final papers submitted must be original scholarship with primary and secondary sources cited in footnotes and should not have been delivered at a scholarly meeting or published prior to presenting at the Arizona History Convention.
The Arizona State History Convention, Inc., a 501(c)(3), is funded solely by donations, grants, and registration fees.
Congratulations to our 2023 Award Winners!
Holly Karibo, associate professor of History at Oklahoma State University, is this year’s recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Award for her presentation, " Pouring “Across the Wild Border”: Historicizing Anti-Drug Narratives and Public Policy in Arizona."
Charles McMartin, a doctoral candidate in Rhetoric Composition and the Teaching of English at the University of Arizona, is this year’s winner of the Don Bufkin Prize, for his presentation, " The Civic Education of Ignacio Bonillas: Revising Ambient Notions of Citizenship in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands."
Makoto Hunter, graduate student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is this year's recipient of the Valeen T. Avery Award, for her presentation, "From Forbidden Intimacies to Local Luminaries: Latter-day Saint Polygamy, the Udalls of Arizona, and the Painful Process of “Belonging” in American Cisheteromonogamy."