William Sanders Scarborough Prize

2011	Stephanie Leigh Batiste, University of California, Santa Barbara, for Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance (Duke Univ. Press, 2011)
	Honorable mention: Meta DuEwa Jones, University of Texas, Austin, for The Muse Is Music: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2011)
2010	Lawrence P. Jackson, Emory University, for The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934–1960 (Princeton Univ. Press, 2010)
2009	Monica L. Miller, Barnard College, for Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity (Duke Univ. Press, 2009)
2008	Magdalena J. Zaborowska, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile (Duke Univ. Press, 2008)
	Honorable mention: Daphne Lamothe, Smith College, for Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)
2007	Candice M. Jenkins, Hunter College, for Private Lives, Proper Relations: Regulating Black Intimacy (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2007)
2006	Jacqueline Goldsby, University of Chicago, for A Spectacular Secret: Lynching in American Life and Literature (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006)
2005	Alexander G. Weheliye, Northwestern University, for Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity (Duke Univ. Press, 2005)
2004	Jean Fagan Yellin, Pace University, for Harriet Jacobs: A Life (Basic Civitas, 2004)
2003	Joanna Brooks, University of Texas, Austin, for American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003)
	Honorable mention: Thadious M. Davis, University of Pennsylvania, for Games of Property: Law, Race, Gender, and Faulkner's Go Down Moses (Duke Univ. Press, 2003)
	Honorable mention: Susan Gillman, University of California, Santa Cruz, for Blood Talk: American Race Melodrama and the Culture of the Occult (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2003)
2002	Maurice O. Wallace, Duke University, for Constructing the Black Masculine: Identity and Ideality in African American Men’s Literature and Culture, 1775–1995 (Duke Univ. Press, 2002)
2001	Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Princeton University, for Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early-Nineteenth-Century Black America (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000)