Past Recipients of the Susie Pryor Award
1986 - Michael Dougan, “The Arkansas Married Women’s Property Law” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 46: 3-26)
1987 - Janet Allured, “Ozark Women 1870-1910: Boone County, A Case Study” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 47: 230-56)
1989 - Elizabeth Haiken, “The Lord Helps Those Who Help Themselves: Black Laundresses in Little Rock, Arkansas 1917-1921” (published in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 49: 20-50)
1990 - Conevery Anne Bolton, “A Sister’s Consolations: Health and Women’s Relationships in Early Arkansas, 1810-1860” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 50: 271-91)
1991 - Frances Mitchell Ross, “The New Woman as Club Woman and Social Activist in Turn-of-the-Century Arkansas” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 50: 317-51)
1992 - Peggy Harris, “History of the Little Rock YWCA”
1993 - Nancy W. Long, "A Document Without Words: Study a Pieced Quilt Made by Two Sisters in Antebellum Arkansas"
1994 - Lorraine Gates, “Power from the Pedestal: The Women’s Emergency Committee and the Little Rock Crisis” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 55: 26-57)
1995 - Marilyn Martin, “From Altruism to Activism: The Contributions of Literary Clubs to Arkansas Public Libraries, 1886-1935” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 55: 64-94)
1996 - Paula Barnes, “The Junior League Eleven: Elite Women of Little Rock Struggle for Justice” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 55: 344-46)
1997 - Tom Wagy, “Addie Joslin Faubus” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 57: 1-16)
1998 - Carolyn Owens Hervey, “Worthy of Upper Rounds: Little Rock’s Early Black Female School Teachers”
1999 - No Award
2000 - Laura A. Miller, “What Can Women Do? Irene Samuels and the Crusade for Arkansas Women’s Political Activism”
(Article published as "Challenging the Segregationist Power Structure in Little Rock: The Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools," in Throwing Off The Cloak Of Privilege: White Southerner Women activists in the Civil Rights Era, edited by Gail Schmuck Murrary. Laura A. Miller also wrote a book on the subject of Irene Samuels called Fearless: Irene Gaston Samuel and the Life of a Southern Liberal. Little Rock: Center for Arkansas Studies, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2002.)
2001 - Johanna Miller Lewis, "'Take a Room...And Replace It Exactly As It Was': Arkansas Women Create the Old State House Museum"
2002 - Heather Register, "An Arkansan in the Imperial Court of Tsar Nicholas II"
(Also see Master’s Thesis: Heather Michelle Register, “Katherine Carson Breckinridge, 1853-1921: the life and letters of a New Southern Lady.” Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2005.)
2003 - Lea Flowers Baker, "'A Capital Woman': Elizabeth Fulton Wright"
(published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 65:138-162)
2004 - Jacqueline A. Ott, "'Ignorance Is Kill'n Them Just... The Same As It's kill'n Us': Women in the Arkansas Southern Tenant Farmer's Union"
2005 - John Lewis Adams, "'Leadership with Vision, Ability, Integrity and Courage:' Daisy Bates and the Arkansas State Press"
2006 - No Award
2007 - Lindsey Shedd, "Effiegene Locke Wingo: Arkansas's Second Congresswoman, 1930-1933" (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 67: 27-53)
2008 - No Award
2009 - Kara Ellis, "How the Little Rock Branch of the American Association of University Women Assumed Responsibility During the School Desegregation Crisis"
(Also see Master’s Thesis: Kara D. Ellis, “Assuming Responsibility : The Little Rock Branch of the American Association of University Women and the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis.” Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2009.)
2010 - Nancy Hendricks, "A Friend in Deed: The Private Correspondence of Senator Hattie Caraway in the V. C. Kays Archives"
(Also see book: Nancy Hendricks, Senator Hattie Caraway: An Arkansas Legacy. Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2013.)
2011 - Alynn Cleveland, "Beyond Tea Parties and Garden Clubs: The Founding of the Arkansas Women's Project, 1980"
2012 - John Lewis Adams, "The Marriage of Daisy and L.C. Bates and the Political Uses of Secrecy"
(Also see Ph. D. Dissertation: “‘Time for a Showdown: The Partnership of Daisy and L. C. Bates, and the Politics of Gender, Protest and Marriage.” PhD diss., Rutgers University, 2014. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/43941/PDF/1/)
2013 - Margaret "Peggy" Scranton, "The ERA Rhetoric of Diane Kincaide"
2014 - Jessica Moore, “I attended to it all myself: Feeding a Family and Running a Business at Rosewood”
(Also see Ph. D. Dissertation: Jessica Parker Moore, “’Bursting to speak my mind’: How Matilda Fulton Challenged the Boundaries of Womanhood in Frontier Arkansas.” PhD diss., [Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2014. - https://search.proquest.com/openview/60b742d86c28e49aec8121646af2bd81/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y )
2015 - Brooks Blevins, "The Ordinary Days of Extraordinary Minnie"
(Also see article: Brooks Blevins, “Life on the Margins: The Dairies of Minnie Atteberry,” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 75: 4 (2016): 289-318.
2016 - Chelsea Hodge, “‘The Operator’s Daughter:’ Folklore and Labor Activism in the Upland South”
2017 - No Award
2018 - No Award
2019 - Becky Howard, "Finding Miss Brady"
1987 - Janet Allured, “Ozark Women 1870-1910: Boone County, A Case Study” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 47: 230-56)
1989 - Elizabeth Haiken, “The Lord Helps Those Who Help Themselves: Black Laundresses in Little Rock, Arkansas 1917-1921” (published in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 49: 20-50)
1990 - Conevery Anne Bolton, “A Sister’s Consolations: Health and Women’s Relationships in Early Arkansas, 1810-1860” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 50: 271-91)
1991 - Frances Mitchell Ross, “The New Woman as Club Woman and Social Activist in Turn-of-the-Century Arkansas” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 50: 317-51)
1992 - Peggy Harris, “History of the Little Rock YWCA”
1993 - Nancy W. Long, "A Document Without Words: Study a Pieced Quilt Made by Two Sisters in Antebellum Arkansas"
1994 - Lorraine Gates, “Power from the Pedestal: The Women’s Emergency Committee and the Little Rock Crisis” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 55: 26-57)
1995 - Marilyn Martin, “From Altruism to Activism: The Contributions of Literary Clubs to Arkansas Public Libraries, 1886-1935” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 55: 64-94)
1996 - Paula Barnes, “The Junior League Eleven: Elite Women of Little Rock Struggle for Justice” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 55: 344-46)
1997 - Tom Wagy, “Addie Joslin Faubus” (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 57: 1-16)
1998 - Carolyn Owens Hervey, “Worthy of Upper Rounds: Little Rock’s Early Black Female School Teachers”
1999 - No Award
2000 - Laura A. Miller, “What Can Women Do? Irene Samuels and the Crusade for Arkansas Women’s Political Activism”
(Article published as "Challenging the Segregationist Power Structure in Little Rock: The Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools," in Throwing Off The Cloak Of Privilege: White Southerner Women activists in the Civil Rights Era, edited by Gail Schmuck Murrary. Laura A. Miller also wrote a book on the subject of Irene Samuels called Fearless: Irene Gaston Samuel and the Life of a Southern Liberal. Little Rock: Center for Arkansas Studies, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2002.)
2001 - Johanna Miller Lewis, "'Take a Room...And Replace It Exactly As It Was': Arkansas Women Create the Old State House Museum"
2002 - Heather Register, "An Arkansan in the Imperial Court of Tsar Nicholas II"
(Also see Master’s Thesis: Heather Michelle Register, “Katherine Carson Breckinridge, 1853-1921: the life and letters of a New Southern Lady.” Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2005.)
2003 - Lea Flowers Baker, "'A Capital Woman': Elizabeth Fulton Wright"
(published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 65:138-162)
2004 - Jacqueline A. Ott, "'Ignorance Is Kill'n Them Just... The Same As It's kill'n Us': Women in the Arkansas Southern Tenant Farmer's Union"
2005 - John Lewis Adams, "'Leadership with Vision, Ability, Integrity and Courage:' Daisy Bates and the Arkansas State Press"
2006 - No Award
2007 - Lindsey Shedd, "Effiegene Locke Wingo: Arkansas's Second Congresswoman, 1930-1933" (published in The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 67: 27-53)
2008 - No Award
2009 - Kara Ellis, "How the Little Rock Branch of the American Association of University Women Assumed Responsibility During the School Desegregation Crisis"
(Also see Master’s Thesis: Kara D. Ellis, “Assuming Responsibility : The Little Rock Branch of the American Association of University Women and the Little Rock School Desegregation Crisis.” Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arkansas at Little Rock, 2009.)
2010 - Nancy Hendricks, "A Friend in Deed: The Private Correspondence of Senator Hattie Caraway in the V. C. Kays Archives"
(Also see book: Nancy Hendricks, Senator Hattie Caraway: An Arkansas Legacy. Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2013.)
2011 - Alynn Cleveland, "Beyond Tea Parties and Garden Clubs: The Founding of the Arkansas Women's Project, 1980"
2012 - John Lewis Adams, "The Marriage of Daisy and L.C. Bates and the Political Uses of Secrecy"
(Also see Ph. D. Dissertation: “‘Time for a Showdown: The Partnership of Daisy and L. C. Bates, and the Politics of Gender, Protest and Marriage.” PhD diss., Rutgers University, 2014. https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/43941/PDF/1/)
2013 - Margaret "Peggy" Scranton, "The ERA Rhetoric of Diane Kincaide"
2014 - Jessica Moore, “I attended to it all myself: Feeding a Family and Running a Business at Rosewood”
(Also see Ph. D. Dissertation: Jessica Parker Moore, “’Bursting to speak my mind’: How Matilda Fulton Challenged the Boundaries of Womanhood in Frontier Arkansas.” PhD diss., [Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2014. - https://search.proquest.com/openview/60b742d86c28e49aec8121646af2bd81/1.pdf?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y )
2015 - Brooks Blevins, "The Ordinary Days of Extraordinary Minnie"
(Also see article: Brooks Blevins, “Life on the Margins: The Dairies of Minnie Atteberry,” The Arkansas Historical Quarterly 75: 4 (2016): 289-318.
2016 - Chelsea Hodge, “‘The Operator’s Daughter:’ Folklore and Labor Activism in the Upland South”
2017 - No Award
2018 - No Award
2019 - Becky Howard, "Finding Miss Brady"