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2022 WCSA Award Winners

Life-Time Achievement Awarded: Barbara Jensen

We’re delighted to announce the WCSA Life-Time Achievement award given to Barbara Jensen at the 2022 WCSA Conference, Oregon State University, in recognition of her significant work in the field and to the Association.

2022 Book & Media Awardees Discussed in Working-Class Perspective

No doubt, we’re living in troubled and troubling times, but as WCSA past-president, Allison L. Hurst writes in her discussion of the winners of this year’s Working-Class Studies Association awards, we have room for both hope and concern. You’ll find details on some of the best dissertations, articles, books, and media projects produced in 2020 & 2021 in her post, “Hope & Concern: the WCSA’s 2022 Award Winners,” published in this week’s Working-Class Perspectives.

Photo: Barbara Jensen at the WCSA 22 Conference, Corvallis, Oregon, June 22, 2022. By Jen Vernon.

Congratulations to WCSA’s 2019 Young Scholars and Activists Fellowship Recipients!

Congratulations to the recipients of the Working-Class Studies Association’s Young Scholars and Activists Fellowship award!

Each of the recipients are working in ways that contribute to working-class studies, and we were excited to welcome several of the recipients at the 2019 conference at the University of Kent.

The recipients were:

Jay Emery, School of Geography, Geology, and the Environment, University of Leicester, England

Frederick Burrill, Department of History, Concordia University, Canada

Mary Gibaldi, Department of English, California State University, Chico, United States

Luka Lei Zhang, English Division, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Courtney Pina Miller, Department of English, Brandeis University, United States

Most of the recipients are pictured here with WCSA Past President Cherie Rankin at the 2019 WCSA Awards dinner.

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From L to R: : Cherie Rankin, Past President; Jay Emery, School of Geography, Geology, and the Environment, University of Leicester, England; Frederick Burrill, Department of History, Concordia University, Canada; Mary Gibaldi, Department of English, California State University, Chico, United States; Luka Lei Zhang, English Division, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

While Courtney Pina Miller participated in the conference, she was unable to make the dinner because of extenuating circumstances. So, while she was not part of the group photo above, we still offer our congratulations to her for this honor as well!

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Courtney Pina Miller, Department of English, Brandeis University, United States