Graduate student Nic Vigilante received an honorable mention for their paper Salty, Sweet, and Spicy: Ingestion and Immersion in Queer Asian American Nightlife for the 2024 Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize from the American Studies Association.
The Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize recognizes the best paper presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association.
The award honors two scholars who both wrote foundational essays on the importance of American studies as an intellectual field and as an institutional movement. Gene Wise was an American theorist and cultural historian best known for “‘Paradigm Dramas’ in American Studies: A Cultural and Institutional History of the Movement.” He taught at Case Western Reserve University and at the University of Maryland, College Park. Warren Susman was a cultural historian who published an influential collection of essays in 1984 entitled, Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth Century. Susman taught at many institutions, including Cornell University and Northwestern University, before settling in as a professor of American history at Rutgers University.
