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We also celebrate book review editor Alex Ferrone for receiving an ASTR Research Fellowship, editorial board member Suk-Young Kim for receiving Honorable Mention for ASTR's Barnard Hewitt book award, and online editor Tarryn Li-Min Chun for co-organizing an inspiring conference! Congrats, all!
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
We also celebrate book review editor Alex Ferrone for receiving an ASTR Research Fellowship, editorial board member Suk-Young Kim for receiving Honorable Mention for ASTR's Barnard Hewitt book award, and online editor Tarryn Li-Min Chun for co-organizing an inspiring conference! Congrats, all!
The Peace History Society’s Charles Debenedetti Memorial Prize Honorable Mention:
Elizabeth W. Son for “‘Stitching Korea Back Together’: Jogakbo Aesthetics of Care in Peace Advocacy,” Theatre Journal, 76.4, 2024.
Elizabeth W. Son for “‘Stitching Korea Back Together’: Jogakbo Aesthetics of Care in Peace Advocacy,” Theatre Journal, 76.4, 2024.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The Peace History Society’s Charles Debenedetti Memorial Prize Honorable Mention:
Elizabeth W. Son for “‘Stitching Korea Back Together’: Jogakbo Aesthetics of Care in Peace Advocacy,” Theatre Journal, 76.4, 2024.
Elizabeth W. Son for “‘Stitching Korea Back Together’: Jogakbo Aesthetics of Care in Peace Advocacy,” Theatre Journal, 76.4, 2024.
ASTR's Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize
Winner: Rhaisa K. Williams for “Grief Capital, Grief Activism: The Brief Life of Mamie Till Bradley's NAACP Tour.” Theatre Journal, 76.4, 2024.
Winner: Rhaisa K. Williams for “Grief Capital, Grief Activism: The Brief Life of Mamie Till Bradley's NAACP Tour.” Theatre Journal, 76.4, 2024.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
ASTR's Oscar G. Brockett Essay Prize
Winner: Rhaisa K. Williams for “Grief Capital, Grief Activism: The Brief Life of Mamie Till Bradley's NAACP Tour.” Theatre Journal, 76.4, 2024.
Winner: Rhaisa K. Williams for “Grief Capital, Grief Activism: The Brief Life of Mamie Till Bradley's NAACP Tour.” Theatre Journal, 76.4, 2024.
Honorable Mentions for the Kahan Scholar's Prize:
1) Elizabeth Hunter for “Augmented Reality and Theatre.” Theatre Journal, 76.2, 2024.
2) Leticia Ridley for “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies.” Theatre Journal, 76.3, 2024.
1) Elizabeth Hunter for “Augmented Reality and Theatre.” Theatre Journal, 76.2, 2024.
2) Leticia Ridley for “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies.” Theatre Journal, 76.3, 2024.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Honorable Mentions for the Kahan Scholar's Prize:
1) Elizabeth Hunter for “Augmented Reality and Theatre.” Theatre Journal, 76.2, 2024.
2) Leticia Ridley for “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies.” Theatre Journal, 76.3, 2024.
1) Elizabeth Hunter for “Augmented Reality and Theatre.” Theatre Journal, 76.2, 2024.
2) Leticia Ridley for “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies.” Theatre Journal, 76.3, 2024.
ASTR's Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize:
Winner: Westley Montgomery for “The Many Voices of Sissieretta Jones: Opera and the Sonic Necromancy of the Black Phonographic Archive.” Theatre Journal, 76.2, 2024.
Winner: Westley Montgomery for “The Many Voices of Sissieretta Jones: Opera and the Sonic Necromancy of the Black Phonographic Archive.” Theatre Journal, 76.2, 2024.
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
ASTR's Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize:
Winner: Westley Montgomery for “The Many Voices of Sissieretta Jones: Opera and the Sonic Necromancy of the Black Phonographic Archive.” Theatre Journal, 76.2, 2024.
Winner: Westley Montgomery for “The Many Voices of Sissieretta Jones: Opera and the Sonic Necromancy of the Black Phonographic Archive.” Theatre Journal, 76.2, 2024.
And last but certainly not least, congrats to Donatella Gallella for receiving the Methuen Drama Prize for Best Essay on the Musical from ISSM for her essay “Democracy, ‘Democracy (Reprise),’ and the Asian American Ambivalence of Soft Power" (March 2024).
Hooray for our authors!
Hooray for our authors!
July 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
And last but certainly not least, congrats to Donatella Gallella for receiving the Methuen Drama Prize for Best Essay on the Musical from ISSM for her essay “Democracy, ‘Democracy (Reprise),’ and the Asian American Ambivalence of Soft Power" (March 2024).
Hooray for our authors!
Hooray for our authors!
More congratulations go to Shannon Woods, who received the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Dance Studies Association for her essay “The Threat is Now: Choreography, Temporality, and the Active Shooter Drill,” also published in the special issue on Abolition.
July 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
More congratulations go to Shannon Woods, who received the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Dance Studies Association for her essay “The Threat is Now: Choreography, Temporality, and the Active Shooter Drill,” also published in the special issue on Abolition.
Congrats also to Leticia L. Ridley, who received the Vera Mowry Roberts Award Honorable Mention for “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies,” which appeared in the special issue on Abolition (September 2024).
July 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Congrats also to Leticia L. Ridley, who received the Vera Mowry Roberts Award Honorable Mention for “A Grammar of Abolition: Black Theatrical Geographies,” which appeared in the special issue on Abolition (September 2024).
Congrats to Maria Di Simone for winning the ATDS Vera Mowry Roberts Award for “Chinese American Identity, Performance, and Immigration Law: Jue Quon Tai in Theatres and at National Borders,” which appeared in the March 2024 issue.
July 30, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Congrats to Maria Di Simone for winning the ATDS Vera Mowry Roberts Award for “Chinese American Identity, Performance, and Immigration Law: Jue Quon Tai in Theatres and at National Borders,” which appeared in the March 2024 issue.