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LAWCHA Award Winners, 2015

Sven Beckert
Sven Beckert

Philip Taft Labor History Book Award for the best book in American labor and working-class history (awarded jointly by Cornell University ILR School).

Sven Beckert, Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Knopf)


Chantal Norrgard
Chantal Norrgard

David Montgomery Book Award for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history (awarded jointly with the Organization of American
Historians).

Chantal Norrgard, Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood (University of North Carolina Press)


Jessica Wilkerson
Jessica Wilkerson

Herbert G. Gutman Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in labor and working-class history.

Jessica Wilkerson, “Where Movements Meet: From the War on Poverty to Grassroots Feminism in the Appalachian South” (UNC-Chapel Hill, 2014)
Advisor: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall


Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Award for Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History.

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Rosemary Feurer
Rosemary Feurer is Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the author of Radical Unionism in the Midwest, 1900-1950, among others. She is working on The Illinois Mine Wars, 1860-1940 and a new biography of Mary Harris "Mother" Jones.