The Stern Award, named for luminary Jerome Stern, is given each year at the conference by the editor and editorial board of Studies in Popular Culture to recognize the best article published in the journal’s previous year.
The 2024 Stern Award goes to:
Phillis Lynne Burns
Associate Professor at Otterbein University
“‘We Know a Place: An American Afrofuturism Speculative Sanctuary.”
Previous Winners:
2023
Michael Martin
Nicholls State University
“‘Her Helpless Children’: Narratology, History, and the Female Speaker in Antebellum Southern Captivity Narratives.”
2022
Robert McDonald
“‘Imagining Harry Crews: The Landscape of A Childhood.”
2021
Eva Tettenborn
“No One’s Magical Negro: Reclaiming Black Masculines in Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt”
2020
Raquel Albarrán
“Schomburg and the Coloniality of Objects: An Introduction”