The Studs Terkel Award for Media and Journalism for single published articles or series, broadcast media, multimedia, and film in media and journalism:

Bryce Covert for “Home Far from Home” (two-part series). The Nation. November/December 2025.

The Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing for published books of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and other creative genres:

Fisher Lavell for Three Days Till Rapture.  Friesenpress, 2025

The C.L.R. James Award for Published Book for Academic or General Audiences:

Shankar Ramaswami for Souls in the Kalyug: The Politics and Cosmologies of Migrant Workers in Contemporary India. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.

The Jake Ryan and Charles Sackrey Working-Class Academics Award for Books by Writer(s) of Working-Class Origins:

Jess Pilgrim-Brown, Teresa Crew, and Éireann Attridge (eds) for Working-Class People in UK Higher Education: Precarities, Perspectives and Progress. Emerald Publishing, 2025

The John Russo and Sherry Linkon Award for Published Article or Essay for Academic or General Audiences:

David Flood for “Good Injuries: Embodiment, Temporality, and Collectivity in US Class Conflict,” Anthropological Quarterly, 98 no. 1, 2025

The Constance Coiner Dissertation Award:

Corrin Baker for A Carpenter’s Daughter: Working-Class Autoethnography. Georgetown University, 2025.

You can find a full list of our awards and previous winners here: Awards