SCMS is pleased to announce the 2023 Award Winners

Formal announcements will be made at the Award Ceremony in Denver on Thursday afternoon, April 13 from 2-3 PM, MT. Please join us to celebrate these outstanding achievements! And don’t forget to catch the special event on Wednesday, April 12 from 2-3 PM, MT honoring our 2021 & 2022 Distinguished Career Achievement Award Winners - Tom Schatz and Bill Nichols. We hope to see you there!

STUDENT WRITING AWARD
First Place
Yiyang Hou, University of California, Los Angeles, “Going to the Video Hall: A Sensory Encounter with a New Urban Space in Post-Mao China”

Second Place
Erin Nunoda, University of Toronto, “The Ticket Woman’s Look: Sapphic Cruising and Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Third Place
Henry Osman, Brown University, “Seismic Cinema”

DISSERTATION AWARD
Kiki Loveday, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Sapphic Cinemania! Female Authorship, Queer Desires and the Birth of Cinema"

THE KATHERINE SINGER KOVÁCS ESSAY AWARD
Jennifer Blaylock, Oberlin College, ‘Who wants a BlackBerry these days?’ Serialized new media and its trash, Screen, Volume 62, Issue 2, Summer 2021, Pages 156–172

BEST ESSAY IN AN EDITED COLLECTION AWARD
Maggie Hennefeld, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, “Queer Laughter in the Archives of Silent Film Comedy,” The Oxford Handbook of Queer Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2021)

BEST EDITED COLLECTION AWARD
Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University, Takushi Odagiri, Kanazawa University, and Moonim Baek, Yonsei University, Theorizing Colonial Cinema: Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia (Indiana University Press, 2022)

BEST FIRST BOOK AWARD
Chelsea Birks, University of British Columbia, Limit Cinema: Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)

THE KATHERINE SINGER KOVÁCS BOOK AWARD
Kaveh Askari, Michigan State University, Relaying Cinema in Midcentury Iran: Material Cultures in Transit (University of California Press, 2022)

THE ANNE FRIEDBERG INNOVATIVE SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
Bo Ruberg, University of California, Irvine, Sex Dolls at Sea: Imagined Histories of Sexual Technologies (MIT Press, 2022)

INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGY AWARD
Vincent Longo and Matthew Solomon, University of Michigan
 
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD - COLLECTIVE
The Editors of JCMS 2018-2022
Caetlin Benson-Allott (Editor)
Sara Bakerman (Managing Editor)
Jeff Menne (Associate Editor)
Kristen Warner (Associate Editor)
TreaAndrea Russworm (Associate Editor of Outreach and Equity)
Samantha Sheppard (Associate Editor of Outreach and Equity)
Scott Richmond (Production Editor)
Amanda Greer (Assistant Production Editor)
Julia Himberg (Special Features Editor)
Laura Isabel Serna (Book Review Editor)
Patricia Ciccone (Assistant Book Review Editor)
Peter Labuza (Assistant Book Review Editor)
Neta Alexander (Assistant Editor)
Silpa Mukherjee (Assistant Editor)
Rielle Navitski (Archival News Editor)
Colleen Glenn (Professional Notes Editor)
Paul Flaig (Professional Notes Contributing Editor)

DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD - INDIVIDUAL
Cynthia Ann Baron, Bowling Green State University