Mooney Archive

Recipients of the James Mooney Award

The purpose of the James Mooney Award is to recognize and thereby encourage distinguished anthropological scholarship on the South and Southerners. Presented annually, the award includes a $500 cash prize and certificate of recognition to be presented to the winning author at an awards ceremony. In addition, an Honorable Mention Award includes a certificate of recognition. The winning presses will also receive a certificate of recognition and will be granted free exhibit space at the Society’s annual meeting and, for one year, free advertising space for the winning books in the Southern Anthropologist.

Dust Jacket	Year	Author	Title	Publisher
	1973*	Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.	And They all San Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845	University of Tennessee Press
	1977	James M. Crawford	The Mobilian Trade Language	University of Tennessee Press
	1979	Charles L. Briggs	The Wood Carvers of Cordova, New Mexico Social Dimensions of an Artistic "Revival"	University of Tennessee Press
	1980	Elizabeth Lawrence	Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame	University of Tennessee Press
	1992	Stuart Marks	Southern Hunting in Black and White: Nature, History, and Ritual in a Carolina Community	Princeton University Press
	1993	Leland Ferguson	Uncommon Ground: Archeology and Early African America 1650-1800	Smithsonian Institution Press
	1994	James Deetz	Flowerdew Hundred: The Archaeology of a Virginia Plantation,1619-1864	University Press of Virginia
	1995	Peggy Barlett	American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis (co-winner)	University of North Carolina Press
	1995	Jerald Milanich	Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida (co-winner)	University of Florida Press
	1997	Patricia Galloway	Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700	University of Nebraska Press
	1998	Charles Hudson	Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun	University of Georgia Press
	1999	Theda Perdue	Cherokee Women: Gender and culture change 1700-1835	University of Nebraska Press
	2000	William S. Pollitzer	The Gullah People and Their African Heritage	University of Georgia Press
	2001	Laurie Wilkie	Creating Freedom: Material Culture and African American Identity at Oakley Plantation, Louisiana	Louisiana State University Press
	2001	David Griffith	The Estuary Gift: An Atlantic Coast Cultural Biography (honorable mention)	Pennsylvania State University
	2002	Samuel R.Cook	Monacans and Miners: Native American and Coal Mining Communities in Appalachia	University of Nebraska Press
	2003	Margaret Clelland Bender	Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life	University of North Carolina Press
	2003	Choong Soon Kim	One Anthropologist Two Worlds: Three Decades of Reflexive Fieldwork in North America and Asia (honorable mention)	University of Tennessee Press
	2004	Miles Richardson	Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South	Louisiana State University Press
	2004	Margaret Holmes Williamson	Powhatan Lords of Life and Death: Command and Consent in Seventeenth-Century Virginia (honorable mention)	University of Nebraska Press
	2005	No award was given for the year 2005.
	2006	James Hamill	Going Indian (co-winner)	University of Illinois Press
	2006	Grey Gundaker and Judith McWillie	No Space Hidden:The Spirit of African American Yardwork (co-winner)	University of Tennessee Press
	2006	Helen C. Rountree	Pocahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: ThreeIndian Lives Changed by Jamestown (honorable mention)	University of Virginia Press
	2007	Trudy Griffin-Pierce	Chiricahua Apache Enduring Power: Naiche's Puberty Ceremony Paintings (co-winner)	University of Alabama Press
	2007	Kenneth E. Sassaman	People of the Shoals: Stallings Culture of the Savannah River Valley (co-winner)	University Press of Florida
	2008	James Peacock	Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World	University of Georgia Press
	2009	Shepard Krech	Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South	University of Georgia Press
	2010	Christopher M. Stojanowski	Bioarchaeology of Ethnogenesis of the Colonial Southeast	University of Florida Press
	2011	Robbie Ethridge	Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715 (co-winner)	University of North Carolina Press
	2011	Circe Sturm	Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century (co-winner)	SAR Press
	2012	Peter Benson	Tobacco Capitalism: Growers, Migrant Workers, and the Changing Faceof a Global Industry	Princeton University Press
	2013	Kenneth T. MacLeish	Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community	Princeton University Press
	2014	Audrey Horning	Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic	University of North Carolina Press
	2015	Brad Montgomery-Anderson	Cherokee Reference Grammar	University of Oklahoma Press
	2015	Asa R. Randall	Constructing Histories: Archaic Freshwater Shell Mounds and Social Landscapes of St. John's River, Florida	University Press of Florida (honorable mention)
	2015	John van Willigen	Kentucky's Cookbook Heritage: Two Hundred Years of Southern Cuisine and Culture	The University Press of Kentucky (honorable mention)
	2016	Martin D. Gallivan	The Powhatan Landscape: An Archaeological History of the Algonquian Chesapeake	University Press of Florida
	2017	Jason O'Donoughue	Water from Stone: Archaeology and Conservation at Florida's Springs	University of Florida Press
	2018	No award was given for the year 2018.
	2019	Bernard Herman	A South You Never Ate	University of North Carolina Press (honorable mention)
	2019	Edward González-Tennant	The Rosewood Massacre: An Archaeology and History of Intersectional Violence	University Press of Florida (honorable mention)
	2019	Courtney Lewis	Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty
* First Mooney Award Winner