Vicki Ruiz Award Grant

The Vicki Ruiz Award, presented by the Western History Association, honors the best article focusing on race within the North American West. This prestigious $500 prize aims to encourage scholarly contributions and public discourse on race in this region's history. Eligible nominations include peer-reviewed articles published in the previous calendar year. The award reflects the association's commitment to fostering a deeper understanding of diverse historical perspectives in Western studies.

Western History Association
The Western History Association strives to be a congenial home for the study and teaching of all aspects of North American Wests, frontiers, homelands, and borderlands.
Enable collaborations among peoples, institutions, and organizations devoted to the study of western history. Conduct an annual conference at which western history teachers, scholars, and professionals share their research and exchange ideas that facilitate further study of the North American West. Publish an award-winning journal that employs rigorous peer reviews to identify, improve, and distribute original western history scholarship.Promote public education on western history through active involvement with teachers, museums, non profit organizations, libraries, and other venues.

Eligibility

Any WHA member, publisher, or author of a peer-reviewed article, may nominate work that was published in previous calendar year.
You must be a member of this organization to apply for this award - become a member.

Ineligibility

Book chapters are not eligible.