Great Plains Research presents two annual awards for the best articles published during a volume year: The Charles E. Bessey Award for natural science and the Leslie Hewes Award for social science. The awards are announced at the annual Fellows Luncheon of the Center for Great Plains Studies and include a cash stipend of $250.00

 

Charles E. Bessey Award for the best natural science article in 2012, Spring 2012, Vol. 22, No. 1:69-78. Sharon N. Kahara, Department of Natural Resource Managment and Steven R. Chipps, U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at South Dakota State University, Wetland Hydrodynamics and Long-Term Use of Spring Migration Areas by Lesser Scaup in Eastern South Dakota.

Leslie Hewes Award for the best social science article in 2012, Fall 2012, Vol. 22, No. 2:99-122. Robert Pahre, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Reconsidering National Park Interpretation of the Great Plains and Trans-Mississippi West.

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Past Award Winners

CHARLES E. BESSEY AWARD

Announced in 2000 with first award presented in spring 2000

2012

Alexander J. Smart, Matthew J. Nelson, and Gary E. Larson
Effects of Herbicides and Grazing on Floristic Quality of Native Tallgrass Pastures in Eastern South Dakota and Southwestern Minnesota
 2011 Vol. 21, No. 2:181-90

2011

Michael J. Keables
A Soil Water Climiatology for Kansas.
 2010 Vol. 20, No. 2:229-48

2010

Mark P. Vrtiska and Susan Sullivan
Abundance and Distribution of Lesser Snow and Ross's Geese in the Rainwater Basin and Central Platte River Valley of Nebraska
 2009 Vol. 19, No. 1: 147-55

2009

 Hugh H. Genoways and Brett C. Ratcliffe
Engineer Cantonement, Missouri Territory, 1819-1820; America's First Biodiversity Inventory
 2008 Vol. 18, No. 1: 3-31

2008

 Stephen A. Wolfe, Chris H. Hugenholz, Christopher P. Evans, D.J. Huntley, and Jeff Ollerhead
Potential Aboriginal-Occupation-Induced Dune Activity, Elbow Sand Hills, Northern Great Plains, Canada
 2007 Vol. 17, No. 2: 173-92

2007

 Mark E. Burbach and R. Matthew Joeckel
A Delicate Balance: Rainfall and Groundwater in Nebraska during the 2000-2005 Drought
 2006 Vol. 16, No. 1: 5-16

2006

 Barbara J. Nicholson and James B. Swinehart
Evidence of Holocene Climate Change in a Nebraska Sandhills Wetland
 2005 Vol. 15, No. 1: 45-67

2005

 Mark P. Vrtiska and Nick Lyman
Wintering Canada Geese along the Platte Rivers of Nebraska, 1960-2000
2004 Vol. 14 No. 1: 115-28
2004 Craig A. Davis
Habitat Use and Migration Patterns of Sandhill Cranes along the Platte River, 1998-2001
2003 Vol. 13 No. 2: 199-216
2003 Dallas Virchow and Scott Hyngstrom
Distribution and Abundance of Black-tailed Prairie Dogs in the Great Plains: A Historical Perspective
2002 Vol. 12 No. 2: 197-218
2002 R. Mark Larson, Lawrence C. Todd, Eugene F. Kelly, and Jeffrey M. Welker
Carbon Stable Isotopic Analysis of Bison Dentition
2001 Vol. 11 No. 1: 25-64
2001 David B. Loope and James B. Swinehart
Thinking Like a Dune Field: Geologic History in the Nebraska Sand Hills
2000 Vol. 10 No. 1: 5-35
2000 Carolyn Hull Sieg, Curtis H. Flather, and Stephen McCanny
Recent Biodiversity Patterns in the Great Plains: Implications for Restoration and Management
1999 Vol. 9 No. 2: 277-313

LESLIE HEWES AWARD

Announced in 1997 with first award presented in spring 1998
2012

Peter J. Longo and Joan M. Blauwkamp
Workplace Religious Accommodation for Muslims and the Promise of State Constitutionalism
2011 Vol. 21, No. 1:3-16
2011

Richard Edwards and Eric Thompson
The Role of Conservation Research and Education Centers in Growing Nature-Based Tourism
2010 Vol. 20, No. 1:51-70
2010

Peter Bleed and Douglas D. Scott
Archeological Interpretation of the Frontier Battle at Mud Springs, Nebraska
2009 Vol. 19, No. 1: 12-25
2009

Dean A. Bangsund and F. Larry Leistritz
Producer Responses to Carbon Sequestration Incentives in the Northern Great Plains
2008 Vol. 18, No. 2: 165-76
2008

Suzanne Walker-Pacheco, Susan Dollar, and Ravindra G. Amonker
Population Characteristics and Health Service Use by Latino Immigrants to Southwest Missouri
2007 Vol. 17, No. 1: 87-100
2007

Susan Hautaniemi Leonard and Myron P. Gutmann
Land Use and Transfer Plans in the U.S. Great Plains
2006 Vol. 16, No. 2: 181-93
2006

Ana-Maria Gonzalez Wahl, Steven E. Gunkel, and Bennie Shobe, Jr.
Becoming Neighbors or Remaining Strangers? Latinos and Residential Segregation in the Heartland
2005 Vol. 15, No. 2: 297-327
2005 Mary S. Willis and Constance J. Fernald
A View of Sudanese Refugee Resettlement through Nebraska’s Print Media
2004 Vol. 14 No. 2: 271-92
2004 Alexander C. Vias and Charles O. Collins
Differential Population and Income Migration in the Great Plains, 1995-1998
2003 Vol. 13 No. 2: 321-52
2003 Bruce B. Johnson and John D. Cole
Was Old Jules Right?: Soil Stewardship on Leased Land
2002 Vol. 12 No. 2: 339-51
2002 Joe Truett, Michael Phillips, Kyran Kunkel, and Russell Miller
Managing Bison to Restore Biodiversity
2001 Vol. 11 No. 1: 123-44
2001 Ana-María Wahl, Steven E. Gunkel, and Thomas W. Sanchez
Death and Disability in the Heartland: Corporate (Mis)Conduct, Regulatory Responses, and the Plight of Latino Workers in the Meatpacking Industry
2000 Vol. 10 No. 2: 329-57
2000 Larry R. Peterson
Is the Family Disappearing? Northern Great Plains vs. National Trends in Family Structure
1999 Vol. 9 No. 1: 143-63
1999 Jane H. Bock and Carl E. Bock
Tallgrass Prairie: Remnants and Relicts
1998 Vol. 8 No. 2: 213-30
1998 Russel Lawrence Barsh, Michelle Fraser, Faye Morning Bull, Toby Provost, and Kirby Smith
The Prairie Indian Vote in Canadian Politics, 1965-1993: A Critical Case Study from Alberta
1997 Vol. 7 No. 1: 3-26