HISTORY OF JULIA IDESON AWARD RECIPIENTS & JUDGES
Previous Julia Ideson Award Recipients
2022:Barrie Scardino Bradley, author of Improbable Metropolis: Houston's Architectural and Urban History (University of Texas Press, 2020)
2021:Sandra Lord and Debe Branning, co-authors of The Ghosts of Market Square Park (The History Press, 2020)
2020: No award
2019: No award
2018:Dr. Edward C. Breeden, PhD, author of Education, Politics and the Making of School Desegregation in Houston, Texas (Rice University doctoral dissertation, 2018)
2017:Tyina Steptoe, author of Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City (University of California Press, 2015)
2016:Jim Bailey & Kimberly B. Lykins, Texas Foundation for the Arts, Post Oak Boulevard, A Texas Legacy, (2016)
2015:Barrie Scardino Bradley, author of Houston's Hermann Park: A Century of Community (Texas A & M University Press, 2014)
2014: No award
2013:Dr. Brian Behnken, author of Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
2012:Michael Vance, HAM Slices, vol. 2: Vignettes of Houston History (Produced by Houston Arts and Media, 2012)
2011:Steven R. Strom, author of Houston Lost and Unbuilt (University of Texas Press, 2010)
2010:Suzanne Turner and Joanne Seale Wilson, co-authors of Houston's Silent Garden: Glenwood Cemetery, 1871-2009 (Texas A & M University Press, 2009)
2009:Michael R. Botson, Jr., author of Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company (Texas A & M University Press, 2005)
2008: David Welling, author of Cinema Houston: From Nickelodeon to Megaplex (University of Texas Press, 2007)
Julia Ideson Award Judges
2022:Will Howard and Sandra Lord
2021:Nicolas Cox and Michael Botson
2020: No award
2019:Barbara Eaves, Sarah Jackson, and Edmund Pecht
2018:Mike Vance, Joe Holley, and Dr. Emilio Zamora
2017:Katherine Howe, Nicolas P. Cox, and David Thomas
2016:
2015:Barry A Greenlaw, Cheryll A. Cody, and David Bush
2014:Barry A. Greenlaw, Cheryll A. Cody, and John J. Germann
2013:Theresa Jach, Howard Bodner, and James Maroney
2012:Michael Botson, Teresa Tomkins-Walsh, Lisa Struthers, and Chris Drake
2011:John B. Boles, Michael R. Botson, and Doris Glasser
2010:Pat Bozeman, Virginia Bernhard, and Michael Bordelon
2009:Sarah Jackson, Mary Dix, and Louis Marchiafava
2008:Don Carleton, Lee Pecht, and Richard "Dick" Dickerson
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