Past Recipients

Outstanding Article Award

2020s

  • 2024 – Olivia Chandler, “The Value of Imperfect Endeavors: Exploring Postcapitalist and Prefigurative Practices at East Wind Intentional Community,” Communal Societies, Vol. 42.1 (2022). Please note: because Olivia Chandler could not attend the 2024 CSA Conference in person, we are temporarily posting an acceptance video here.

  • 2023 – Douglas Winiarski, “The Ballad of Anne Bunnell: Troubled Families in the Shaker West, 1805-1825,” Journal of American History 109 (2022).
  • 2022 – Paul Mishler, “Intentional Community Traditions and Radical Activism:  The Rifton, NY Bruderhof and BLU Magazine,” Communal Societies, Vol. 40.
  • 2021 – Zach Rubin, “‘A Not-so-silent Form of Activism’: Intentional Community as Collective Action Reservoir.” Humanity & Society.
  • 2020 – Mayana Ludwig, Don Willis, Zach Rubin, “Measuring Success in Intentional Communities: A Critical Evaluation of Commitment and Longevity Theories.” Sociological Spectrum (August 2019).

2010s

  • 2019 – Douglas Winiarski, “Seized by the Jerks: Shakers, Spirit Possession, & the Great Revival.” William & Mary Quarterly
  • 2018 – Erik J. Freeman, “True Christianity”: The Flowering and Fading of Mormonism and Romantic Socialism in Nineteenth-Century France.” Journal of Mormon History 44.2 (April 2018): 75-103
  • 2017 – Daniel McKanan, “Camphill at Seventy-Five: Developmental Communalism in Process”
  • 2016 – Daisy S. Miller, “Turning from Conversion: Shakers, Anti-Shakers, and the Battle for Public Opinion.” Journal of Religion and Society
  • 2015 – Lindy Cummings, “Virtuous Mothers or Wanton Women? Gender Rhetoric in Shaker and Anti-Shaker Publications in the Early Republic,” Communal Societies, Volume 34, No. 2, 2014
  • 2014 – Eva Jane Baxter, “The Pullman Community” in the International Journal of the History of Archaeology”.
  • 2013 – No Award Given
  • 2012 – Jonathan G. Andelson, “The Challenge of Sustainability: A Cautionary Tale from Amana” Communal Societies, Vol, 31, No. 1, 2011.
  • 2011 – Simon M. Evans, “Alberta Hutterite Colonies,” Communal Societies, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2010.
  • 2010 – Carol Medlicott, “We Live at a Great Distance from the Church”: Cartographic Strategies of the Shakers, 1805-1835”, American Communal Societies Quarterly.