MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Winners
2020–21
- Craig Santos Perez, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, for Navigating CHamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization (Univ. of Arizona Press, 2021)
- Honorable mention: Charles Maurice Pigott, University of Strathclyde, for Writing the Land, Writing Humanity: The Maya Literary Renaissance (Routledge, 2020)
2018–19
- Christopher J. Pexa, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, for Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2019)
- Honorable mention: Kirby Brown, University of Oregon, for Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970 (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2018)
2016–17
- David A. Chang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, for The World and All the Things upon It: Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2016)
2014–15
- James H. Cox, University of Texas, Austin, and Daniel Heath Justice, University of British Columbia, for The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (Oxford Univ. Press, 2014)
- Honorable mention: ku‘ualoha ho‘omanawanui, University of Hawai‘i, Mānoa, for Voices of Fire: Reweaving the Literary Lei of Pele and Hi‘iaka (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2014)
2012–13
- LeAnne Howe, University of Georgia, for Choctalking on Other Realities (Aunt Lute Books, 2013)
- Honorable mention: Beth H. Piatote, University of California, Berkeley, for Domestic Subjects: Gender, Citizenship, and Law in Native American Literature (Yale Univ. Press, 2013)